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Open vacancy: Content Marketing Specialist

We are seeking a dynamic Content Marketing Specialist to drive Digital Society School’s mission, creating impactful content, expanding partnerships, and communicating transformative digital solutions across global platforms.

Where else than DSS

At Digital Society School (DSS), we believe that technology can help create a more inclusive, sustainable, and engaging society. Our mission is to empower the next generation of changemakers by combining hands-on learning with impactful collaborations that address societal challenges.

  1. Through our learning programme, we bring in talented trainees from around the world and connect them with partners facing real-world challenges. Over the course of a semester, trainees work on these challenges, creating prototypes and presenting their solutions in a showcase. These projects aim to deliver tangible results, working toward a better future.
  2. Beyond the learning programme, DSS also offers consultancy services in creative technology, e-learning, co-creation, and workshops. We work closely with our partners to co-create, design, test, and develop solutions that contribute to digital innovation and transformation. Partners can engage in multiple trainee projects and leverage our creative technology team to further improve outcomes and enhance their project impact.

Our collaborations span a diverse network of organisations, from local institutions to global enterprises, and focus on creating meaningful change. While we are rooted in Amsterdam, our community and reach extend across five continents, with partners including ING, Heineken, UNHCR, and many others.

At DSS, we continuously experiment with emerging technologies to explore how they can drive positive impact in both business and society. Whether it’s through our learning programmes, consulting projects, or collaborative events, we aim to be a catalyst for societal progress.

Here is how you will make a difference:
As a Marketing Specialist, you will be responsible for:

Strategic Marketing

  • Develop comprehensive marketing strategies to grow our community and attract new partners.
  • Create strategic content plans aligned with Digital Society School’s mission and brand identity.

Hands-on Marketing

  • Execute marketing and communication activities across the website and social media such as LinkedIn and Instagram.
  • Run marketing campaigns targeting trainees, course participants, and potential organisational partners that result in an optimal number of participants.
  • You safeguard and implement DSS Branding and our Design System in our marcom activities and materials.
  • This includes our website, social media channels and monthly newsletters.
  • You are the point of contact for the communication departments of other HvA entities.
  • Using the right dashboarding, you measure our marketing and communication activities and steer.

Education and Events

  • Full ownership of organising our Showcase at the end of every semester.
  • Develop and deliver workshops and masterclasses on digital transformation.
  • Represent Digital Society School at industry events and conferences.
  • Conduct presentations showcasing our impact and project outcomes.
  • For our project teams, you are the go-to person for communication activities. You actively involve them in the creation.

Who are we looking for?

  • You want to contribute to a more inclusive and sustainable digital society.
  • You hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree.
  • 3-5 years’ experience in a similar role.
  • Demonstrable affinity with digital transformation issues.
  • You are a creative and digital maker who knows how to measure impact.
  • You have good organisation, communication and planning skills.
  • Excellent proficiency of the English language in word and writing and able to communicate in Dutch (minimum B2 level).

Talent as a basis, diversity as a strength

The AUAS wants to be an organisation in which everyone feels welcome, appreciated and at home. As an employer, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we can perform as a knowledge institution of and for the city. We therefore strive to see the diversity of backgrounds and perspectives that Amsterdam has to offer reflected in the workforce of our university. If you have tips on how we can improve our communication in the field of diversity and inclusion, let us know.

Your perks 

  • A gross monthly salary between € 3.609,94 and € 4.909,21 (Schaal 9 / Communicatiemedewerker 1, CAO HBO), with a full-time appointment and depending on education and experience.
  • A year-end allowance of 8.3% and a holiday allowance of 8% of your gross annual salary.
  • 428 holiday hours per year with a 40-hour working week.
  • Entitlement to various types of leave, such as (un)paid parental leave, care leave, adoption and foster care leave and various other arrangements.
  • A travel allowance for your commute, an NS-Business Card, your own AUAS bicycle or a tax incentive to purchase your own bicycle. If you are unable to use personal or public transport to travel to work, e.g. because of a disability, we will look at other possibilities together.
  • Plenty of development opportunities, for example via our own AUAS Academy.
  • Discounts on various facilities, such as books, cultural courses, soft- and hardware and a number of insurances.
  • A strong focus on your job satisfaction, work-life balance and vitality.  For example, you can participate in various sports activities for AUAS staff or via the USC sport centre. You can also visit our (career) coaches and use various online tools to benefit your mental health.
  • A good pension scheme via the ABP pension fund.
  • A laptop and smartphone on loan. A monthly internet allowance of €50 net.
  • Last but not least: a chance to work in a dynamic and pleasant environment with wonderful colleagues. You and your colleagues can also get together outside work, in one of our communities such as HvAPride, HvA Alumni, HvA United, JongHvA and FEM IT.

Become our new Marketing Specialist

  • Upload your CV and letter of motivation via the application button before 3rd January 2025. We will get back to you within two to three weeks, so keep an eye on your inbox.  The interviews will take place on January 15th and 16th.
  • Would you like to know more about the position before you apply? Robert Jan ten Wolde, Partnerships & Business Development Manager, can tell you all about it. Send an email to r.j.ten.wolde@hva.nl.
  • For more information about the application procedure, you can send an email to vacatures@hva.nl.
  • This vacancy has been published simultaneously internally and externally. In the event of equivalent suitability, internal candidates will be given preference over external candidates;
  • We apply the AUAS Job Application Code to this vacancy’s recruitment and selection process. No (recruitment) agencies please.