Oorspronkelijke vacature omschrijving:

Are you the colleague who would love to bring the highlights of our Special Collections to a wide audience, using new options in (social) media and by actively involving your network? Are you also able to work on a better online visibility? Do you like variation and dynamics and are you creative, enterprising and a team player? In that case, the University Library is looking for you!

Job description

Most of our Special Collection is placed in a closed depot in the Inner City Library. We do not want to keep these treasures to ourselves. We aim to show them to a broad public and to tell and spread the stories behind them. As a communications officer, you will make this happen. You do not need to do this alone, but together with the curator Special Collections, the project member Citizen Science and our hospitality officer.

You will be involved in:

• Ensuring a strong and structural online and offline presentation of the Special Collections. With a good strategy and the use of physical and digital channels, you ensure structural communication about the Special Collections and better online visibility.
• Actively maintaining the Special Collections’ social media accounts (Facebook and Instagram), working with the student promo-team and in close consultation with the curator and the communications liaison.
• Keeping the information on the Special Collections portal on our website up-to-date and the Special Collections network informed on recent developments.
• Coordinating the organising of online expositions. In consultation with the curator, you will develop an internal plan, collaborating with the communications liaison, curator, faculties and possibly external parties.
• Providing a variety of content to reach different target groups within and outside the Maastricht University (UM) community. You also coordinate the production of videos, podcasts and vlogs and you will post these on the various UB, faculty and UM channels.
• Contributing to the promotion of the current collections. As a communications professional, you will work on projects to bring the current collections to the attention. You will work in close collaboration with your communication colleagues and other University Library staff.
• Providing project support from a communication perspective. You contribute to the preparation of (progress) reports for internal and external use.
• Participating in the promotion and communication activities to make project results more widely known to relevant networks and stakeholders.

Your work as a Communications officer Special Collections contributes to increasing the awareness of the Special Collections in various target groups and to the use of the collections in education, research and society.

Requirements

We are looking for you if you are an enthusiastic communications talent. You have some work experience and are now looking for a job to further develop your experience as a communications professional. In various ways, your creativity contributes to the augmented visibility of the Special Collections. You have the guts to pick up and develop new ideas. You are a team player, but you can also tackle situations independently. You have an eye for detail and will always go for the best result, even in ad hoc situations. As a communications professional, you are of course aware of the latest developments in social media and you know how to make use of them.

Furthermore, you have/you are:

• A Bachelor or Master degree, for example in Communication, Multi Media or Journalism, possibly in combination with a feeling for heritage and library collections
• Experience with communication in a professional environment
• Experience with, and active on, social media channels including Facebook and Instagram. You manage channels and create content based on a plan or strategy
• Some experience with photo- and video editing
• You have excellent oral and written command of the Dutch and English language

Conditions of employment

Fixed-term contract: 1 year.

As a Communications officer Special Collections, you will work in beautiful Maastricht for the most international university of the Netherlands.

Furthermore, we offer you:

• An interesting and challenging job for 19 hours per week
• Space and facilities for self-development: both personally and professionally
• Good terms of employment. The position is based on salary scale 7, according to the UFO-profile Communications officer, level 3, depending on education and relevant working experience, with an expected gross maximum of € 3,336 per month (based on a full-time position of 38 hours/week)
• In addition, there is an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end allowance
• Secondary employment conditions such as flexible working hours, (232 holiday hours per year with a full-time appointment), parental leave, a good pension scheme, use of sports facilities and CAO á la carte.
• An appointment will be for a period of 1 year with a size of 0.5 fte.

Last but not least: you will have very nice, enthusiastic and motivated colleagues, which makes for a pleasant collaboration and participation in work outings and other social activities.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM

Employer

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 22,000 students and about 5,000 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

For more information, visit www.maastrichtuniversity.nl

Department

University Library

Supporting your academic goals, that is the aim of the University Library. We are in close contact with the academic world and we are of crucial importance to students, teachers and researchers in this rapidly changing digital world. The University Library is constantly changing and this offers our professionals the opportunity to show their entrepreneurship and the possibility for personal growth. We work with a very motivated and collective team with consideration for everyone’s wellbeing. Are you going to be part of this team?

Do you want to learn more about the UM Library? Watch our video While you are there, you can navigate through our website - the Online Library - and discover all the services and information we offer. You will find more information on our Special Collections on the Special Collections portalon our website.

Additional information

Are you interested in this position but do you have any questions?

You can contact Odin Essers, conservator Special Collections, via odin.essers@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Are you motivated to become our new Communications officer Special Collections? Then press the button ‘apply now’ to see the application procedure.

The interviews are preferably held in week 19 (both 1st and 2nd round).