Corporate Communications Specialist

The position

In this role, you’ll collaborate with senior colleagues on internal, municipality-wide communications. You’ll also work with specialists from other teams, such as online editors, photographers, and social media experts. Your target audiences are diverse, ranging from field staff to managers, from enforcement officers to neighborhood liaisons—all colleagues within the municipality. You’ll also create content for all municipal employees. If we do our job well, it will have a positive impact on how they communicate with Amsterdammers. And that’s our goal: to help public servants do their best for the city and for the people of Amsterdam.

The topics you’ll be working on include inclusive communication, applying our communication principles of “clear, accessible, and reliable,” the corporate identity, and initiatives to strengthen trust in the municipal organization. You will spend about half of your time working on internal communications for the municipal secretary. This may involve arranging interviews or photos, writing articles on current topics, or organizing networking events. You will collaborate on these tasks with the internal corporate communications advisor.

Here's what you do on an average day

• You create engaging content on your topics. You write and edit the content yourself and handle the photography and video.
• You will develop and discuss implementation plans related to corporate communication topics.
• You will be responsible for editing municipality-wide newsletters: the Weekly Email for Directors, Management News (both published weekly), and Employee News (published every two weeks).
• You will assist with scheduling meetings for the Internal Communications Network and the Municipal Management Team’s lunch meetings.
• You will develop and manage the Corporate Communications department’s internal social media pages.
• You analyze communication efforts based on data and evaluations.
• You will work alongside the senior consultants and participate in team meetings.
• You will work closely with colleagues from the news and online editorial teams, as well as with colleagues in internal communications at the various departments and city districts.

This is where you get started

We strive to be a great employer that ensures all our colleagues feel seen and valued. We embrace the differences among our colleagues; these differences lead to better results for both our organization and our city. We aim to build a workforce that reflects Amsterdam’s diverse population. So, whoever you are, you’re more than welcome here!

Corporate Communications is part of Policy & Strategy within the Communications Department. We actively work to strengthen trust between Amsterdam residents and the city government. We also work to foster a sense of connection between our 18,000 colleagues and the municipal organization. In addition, the Corporate Communications team is responsible for citywide communication policy and the corporate communications strategy.

The Communications Department is a full-service division. It handles all aspects of communications, including: communications consulting, web editing, social media, public relations, events, campaign consulting, and copywriting. All these professionals work closely together and contribute to clear, accessible, and reliable communication directed at Amsterdam residents, entrepreneurs, visitors, and employees of the municipal organization. Because with a workforce of approximately 19,000 employees, internal communication is just as important and challenging as external communication.

What you bring

For this position as a Corporate Communications Professional, you must have:

• College- or university-level work and thinking skills.
• Demonstrable work experience in internal communications within a complex organization.
• Writing experience and up-to-date knowledge of digital communication.
• Experience in organizing meetings.

You should have the following skills:

• Awareness of the broader context: You are well-informed about professional, organizational, social, and political developments, as well as other contextual factors. And you know how to apply this knowledge in your work.
• Analytical skills: You can distinguish between main and secondary issues, break down a question into its components, and establish logical connections between the various aspects.
• Results-oriented: You set specific goals as a guide for your own behavior and stick to them until the goal is achieved.
• Initiative: You take the initiative on your own. You identify opportunities and turn them into improvement and innovation initiatives that contribute to better organizational performance.
• Stress-resistant: You can work effectively under pressure, in the face of setbacks, and in a fast-paced environment.

What we offer you

In addition, you have extensive writing experience and up-to-date knowledge of digital communication, a flexible and proactive work ethic, and you work meticulously and are able to maintain a clear overview.
As a Corporate Communications Professional, you will join our team for 32–36 hours per week and can expect the following terms of employment.

• A gross monthly salary of up to €4,671 (pay grade 10) based on a 36-hour workweek. The exact salary will be determined based on your education, knowledge, and experience.
• A one-year employment contract, with the possibility of a permanent contract thereafter, if you do not currently have an employment contract with the City of Amsterdam, or if you have only a temporary one.
• If you already have a permanent employment contract with the City of Amsterdam, you will retain it and be transferred.
• Opportunities for professional development and training. Our in-house training center, the Amsterdam School, offers a variety of training programs, professional development tracks, and on-the-job coaching to help you continue to challenge yourself.
• An individual flexible budget (IKB) equal to 17.05% of your salary, which you can use for things like additional pension contributions or extra days off.
• A pension plan with ABP, the pension fund for the public sector and education.
• A travel allowance of €0.10 per kilometer, up to a 45-kilometer one-way commute, for the number of days you work in the office, and/or a work-from-home allowance of €2 net per workday that you work from home.
• A monthly contribution toward health insurance.
• Hybrid work: In this role, you can work partly from home and partly in the office. We provide the necessary equipment to help you set up a safe and healthy workspace at home.
• A cell phone and a laptop.
• An office space in downtown Amsterdam, overlooking the canals.

Interested in learning more about our employment terms and conditions? Check out the Municipality of Amsterdam Personnel Regulations (PGA).

Apply for this job

• If this job opening interests you, please submit your application by March 13, 2023, via the application form on our website.
• We would like to receive your cover letter, in which you explain, in no more than one A4 page, why your work experience and skills are a good fit for this position. Your cover letter will be taken into consideration during the selection process.
• The selection process begins immediately after the application deadline and consists of two rounds.
• If your resume meets the job requirements, we would be happy to invite you for an interview.
• The interviews will take place at the location at Amstel 1.
• This job opening is being advertised internally and externally at the same time. Employees of the City of Amsterdam will be given priority in the hiring process.
• We require a recent Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) from every colleague who joins our team.

Do you have any questions about this job opening?

If you have any questions, please contact Karen Buschman, Team Manager of the Policy and Strategy Team within the Communications Department, at k.buschman@amsterdam.nl or 06 2260 0020.

We do not appreciate unsolicited solicitation from recruitment agencies, and such actions may result in exclusion from our other recruitment initiatives. We also consider the unsolicited submission of resumes by agencies to our employees to be solicitation. We will not review these resumes.