About the position
Our Client is looking for a media analyst to join the Communications Measurement team to analyze the impact of their comms work across traditional press as well as social media and our owned channels. The analyst should have solid numeric and quantitative analysis skills. Fluent knowledge of English plus at least two of Arabic, German and French is required.
The ideal candidate will excel at working collaboratively with colleagues all over the world (our working language is English) and can consistently deliver high-quality work even under severe time constraints. Candidates should be strong communicators. Attention to detail, ability to remain flexible in a fast-paced environment, strong qualitative and quantitative analysis skills as well as organizational skills are critical.
Overall, you will play a key role in analyzing the true impact of major news stories about the company. In turn, you'll be feeding into important strategic decisions by Meta's global Communications and Public Affairs leadership team.
This role is ideal for someone who has experience in a journalistic and/or communications career, in academic research, at a think tank, or after working for a media agency, media analysis firm, or media measurement platform.
Main Duties
The analyst will be responsible for monitoring news cycles, providing qualitative analyses as well as quantitative data insights for Meta's most pressing issues across EMEA — with particular focus on Germany (a P0 market across 4 campaigns), MENA (Arabic-language coverage that current tooling does not capture), France, and other under-supported EMEA markets. Additionally, this role will sit at the heart of Meta's global effort to quantify the impact of the work of its communications team for all reactive as well as proactive activity, establish strategic KPIs and identify learnings from evaluating media activity.
Key Responsibilities
Read, analyze, and summarize media coverage of important Meta issues across EMEA — particularly Germany, France, and Arabic-language MENA markets Inform the wider team on news cycles and policy issues in EMEA and put them into their local context Provide language coverage where automated monitoring tools underperform (Arabic-language press in particular)Create reports with media insights (including visualization) to assess the impact of different news cycles and inform future strategy Support the communications team in developing meaningful success metrics for its campaigns and initiatives across traditional (news) media outlets as well as owned, paid-for and earned social media activity
Minimum Requirements
2+ years of experience in a media analysis, research, journalistic, communications or related role, or working for a media agency, media analysis firm, a media measurement platform or think tank Fluent English + native or fully fluent in at least one of: Arabic, German, French.
Working knowledge of at least one additional language from Arabic / German / French Based within EMEA (CET/CEST time zone)
Experience owning multiple deliverables and working in a deadline driven environment
Experience in handling data sets and visualizing data a plus Experience drafting messaging materials; writing news summaries is a plus
Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, Broadcast, Political Science, Marketing, Economics, Statistics or related field Preferred qualifications
All three languages (Arabic + German + French) a very strong plus - Experience covering EMEA media landscape (Germany, France, MENA region)
Experience in working with media monitoring tools a plus.
Experience in carrying out measurement projects using data platforms to monitor media coverage and analyze social media conversation Understanding of metrics and analytics within the media environment.
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Desired Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Communications
- Fluent English
- + fluent in at least one of German
- Arabic
- French
