Digital Media Coordinator – Part-Time 80%

Your main duties are the following:

• Responsible for building, maintaining, and creating content for Mission flagship digital properties (social media and website)
• Develop a year-long editorial calendar designed to promote Mission priorities.
• Customize content and online engagement to promote Mission objectives.
• Responsible to produce visual and multimedia elements of Mission public engagement, including design, creation, and/or acquisition of customized visual and multimedia content that is disseminated online.
• Create visual content for all Mission outreach materials by assessing the Swiss media environment, public preferences for visual content formats and dissemination channels, and the impact of Mission visual materials.
• Provide guidance to Mission personnel on standards, regulations, and policies for the use of digital properties.

You have the following soft skills:

• Flexibility to work independently with minimal guidance.
• Ability to rapidly shift gears and adapt to changing priorities and circumstances.
• Capacity to quickly understand tasks and analyze complex issues.
• Confidence in working with people from a variety of backgrounds, including VIPs and high-level government and private sector personnel.
• Strong communication skills, outstanding English skills, both speaking and writing, as well as fluent German, French, or Italian language ability.
• Strong analytic skills to identify target audiences and understand how the Mission’s use of images, graphics, video, and audio can affect audience sensitivities.

You have the following hard skills:

• A university degree in communications, marketing, journalism, graphic design, marketing, political science, or a similar field.
• At least three years of experience in a multilingual, multicultural, or multinational environment with public engagement, including market analysis and/or project management.
• Market research and audience analysis and design and execution of online campaigns must have been significant components of the job.
• Expertise in managing digital properties, including direct online interaction with the public, and content creation, and packaging of visual and multimedia content for digital marketing, advertising, or mass communications purposes.
• Understanding of U.S. foreign policy, as well as a deep knowledge of Swiss politics, media, and culture.
• Ability to use social media, digital, and mobile platforms, graphic design and photo editing software, photo and video sharing sites, and basic photo skills.

What we offer:

• An international and dynamic work environment
• A competitive salary and internal job training for the development of our workforce
• The opportunity to solve tasks creatively and pro-actively, often in time-sensitive situations.
• The chance to work on both political and cultural programs.
• The possibility to participate in international training programs throughout Europe and the United States
• U.S. and Swiss holidays off

Interested candidates are welcome to apply through the Electronic Recruitment Application system (ERA) on the Embassy’s website. Only applications through the ERA system will be considered. Applications are due no later than 12/2/2026. https://erajobs.state.gov/dos-era/vacancysearch/searchVacancies.hms?_ref=q3jzdgrbpt0