After 3 Months What we would like you to deliver:

• Careers website review: An assessment of the current website, including strengths, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Benchmark and good-practice review: Examples and insights from high-performing careers websites and relevant public-sector and EU organizations.
• Candidate journey and information architecture: Recommendations for how candidates should navigate the website—from discovering EMA through to finding and applying for an opportunity.
• Employer-brand recommendations: Recommendations for presenting EMA consistently and authentically as an employer while remaining aligned with the EMA corporate brand.

After 6 Months

• Careers website concept: A proposed structure for the future EMA careers website, including key pages, content hierarchy, and user journeys.
• Content and page concepts: Examples or prototypes for priority pages, such as the careers homepage, vacancy pages, “Why EMA?”, “How we hire”, career areas, benefits, and working at EMA.
• Implementation roadmap: Prioritized recommendations distinguishing quick wins from medium- and longer-term improvements.

You will work primarily with EMA's Talent Acquisition team, closely collaborating with colleagues responsible for communications. This assignment offers the opportunity to directly influence how EMA presents itself to future colleagues and to help create a careers experience that reflects both EMA's public health mission and its identity as an employer.

This collaboration provides the participating institution with an opportunity to contribute to the development of EMA's digital recruitment and employer branding practices while supporting professional development and knowledge exchange. Through this assignment, the collaborating institution may benefit from:

• Knowledge sharing and transfer: Access to insights and good practices in employer branding, digital recruitment, careers website development, and candidate experience.
• Professional development: The opportunity for its expert to broaden their expertise through practical experience in a multicultural EU environment and bring new knowledge and approaches back to their home institution.
• Cross-institutional collaboration: Strengthened professional relationships and experience exchange with EMA's Talent Acquisition, Communications, and digital teams.
• Transferable outcomes: Exposure to methodologies and approaches that may support improvements to the collaborating institution's own recruitment communications and digital channels.
• Contribution to the European regulatory network: An opportunity to support EMA's efforts to attract and engage talent, contributing to the long-term development of capabilities across the European medicines regulatory network.

The assignment promotes mutual learning, professional exchange, and cooperation between EMA and the collaborating institution.

Eligibility criteria:

• Meet the requirements stated in the profile description;
• Be a paid employee from an EU or non-EU, public or academic organization (e.g., national competent authority, international regulator, research institutions, or international organizations), or a post-graduate student within such organizations. Proof of employment/student status and agreement in principle from the employer/academic institution will be requested;
• Have a thorough knowledge of English (at least level C1). Good knowledge of another official EU language (at least B2) is an asset, as per the Common European Framework for Languages.

University Degree(s)

• Essential: Degree in Communications, Marketing, Digital Media, Human Resources Management, Business Administration, Design, Information Technology, or another relevant field.

Experience And Additional Skills We are particularly interested in candidates with professional experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Careers website development or optimization;
• Employer branding or recruitment marketing;
• Digital communications and web content;
• User experience (UX), information architecture, or service design;
• Candidate experience;
• Corporate branding and brand implementation;
• Content strategy or digital storytelling.

You should have experience translating organizational objectives and user needs into practical digital solutions and engaging online content. Experience working with complex, international, or public-sector organizations would be an advantage. You should also be comfortable working with stakeholders from different professional areas and balancing candidate experience, recruitment needs, corporate communications, brand requirements, accessibility, and organizational constraints.

Domenico Scarlattilaan 6 - 1083 HS Amsterdam - The Netherlands Telephone +31 (0)88 781 6000 - Email recruitment@ema.europa.eu

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• Meaningful work contributing to protecting the health of every individual and animal in Europe within a multinational, multidisciplinary team.
• Development opportunities (e.g., internal mobility, mentoring, peer coaching, career reflection programme, etc.).
• Work-life balance (flexible working arrangements, teleworking, generous annual leave plus official holidays).

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• In principle, initial 5-year renewable contract with competitive monthly national tax-free salary and household & children’s allowances (where applicable).
• Privileges including expatriation (for expatriate staff) and education allowances (where appropriate) and additional home leave.
• Relocation assistance.
• Excellent health insurance scheme and social benefits.
• Retirement Pension Plan.

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