Communications Specialist

Big Science Sweden; Meyrin; Remote; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CERN's Human Capital Management (HCM) project is seeking a creative communicator to translate complex HR transformations into clear, audience-focused messages. You will help shape the communications approach, ensure messages explain what is changing, why it matters, and what it means for colleagues across the CERN community.

In the HCM Change and Adoption team, you will plan and deliver activities across channels, collaborate with experts and stakeholders, and contribute to surveys and learning

Qualifications

• Master's degree with 2–6 years of professional experience, or a PhD with up to 3 years of experience.
• Bachelor's degree alone does not meet eligibility criteria.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear messages for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Translate the HCM project's communication strategy into concrete communication activities.
• Plan and deliver communications around project milestones, managing multiple deliverables and deadlines autonomously.
• Turn complex information into clear messages for different audiences, working with experts and stakeholders.
• Create content across channels and formats (posts, emails, webpages, presentations, one-pagers, toolkits, videos).
• Manage HCM communication channels and editorial planning.
• Contribute to wider change and adoption activities such as surveys and learning materials.

Skills

Communication

Content writing

Project planning

Stakeholder management

Audience analysis

Education

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

Are you a creative communicator who enjoys turning complexity into stories people can understand and relate to? Are you interested in people, transformation and the role communication can play in bringing the two together?

Join CERN’s Human Capital Management (HCM) project and help us communicate one of the Organization’s major transformations. HCM will reshape the HR systems and processes supporting people throughout their working lives at CERN, creating a more connected experience from recruitment to departure.

As part of the HCM Change and Adoption team, you will help bring this transformation closer to CERN’s diverse community. You will contribute to shaping our communications approach and turn it into clear, engaging, audience-focused communications that help people understand what is changing, why it matters, and what it means for them.

Your responsibilities

• Translate the HCM project's communication strategy into concrete communication activities.
• Plan and deliver communications around the project milestones, managing multiple deliverables and deadlines autonomously.
• Turn complex information into clear and engaging messages for different audiences, working closely with experts and stakeholders.
• Create content across a broad range of channels and formats, including posts, emails, webpages, presentations, one-pagers, communication toolkits, videos and other multimedia content.
• Manage HCM communication channels and editorial planning.
• Contribute to wider change and adoption activities such as surveys and learning materials.

Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria

• You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State . Currently, we cannot consider applications from Pakistani, Lithuanian, Latvian, Cypriot, Croatian and Turkish nationals, as the ceiling defined under Article II.5 of the Associate Membership Agreement has been reached.
• By the application deadline, you have a master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation. You are not eligible with only a bachelor’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.