Project-coördinator (32 uur p/w)

In deze functie maak je deel uit van één of meerdere projectteams, onder leiding van een Project Manager of Producer. Je regelt tal van praktische zaken die essentieel zijn voor het succes van een evenement of mediaproductie. Je denkt mee op zowel organisatorisch als creatief niveau. Je werkt vanuit ons kantoor in Amsterdam en mogelijk ook voor korte perioden op locatie in binnen- en buitenland.

Je beschikt over:

• HBO werk- en denkniveau;
• enkele jaren ervaring met evenementen en/of mediaproductie;
• uitstekende communicatieve vaardigheden, zowel in het Nederlands als Engels;
• een flexibele en ondernemende instelling qua werktijden en locatie;
• ervaring met Microsoft Office en sociale media (ervaring met MacOS, WordPress ActiveCollab zijn een pré);
• uitstekende planning skills (en de benodigde stalen zenuwen bij snel naderende deadlines).

Je herkent jezelf in de volgende kernwoorden: Creatief, pro-actief, zelfstandig, secuur, leergierig, geduldig, humor.

Als je bij Wow!works komt werken, kom je terecht in een klein en hecht team, waarin resultaat, groei én werkplezier centraal staan. We zeggen niet voor niets; If it ain’t great, we don’t do it! 

Salaris en andere arbeidsvoorwaarden zijn afhankelijk van werkervaring.

Wil jij graag voor Wow!works werken? Stuur dan je CV en motivatie voor 28 september naar Marieke Duijts (m.duijts@wowworks.eu).

Acquisitie op basis van deze vacature wordt niet op prijs gesteld.

“Every human being has the same psychological needs. They have different priorities, and do different things to fulfill their needs. When you understand the needs of your audience and manage to fulfill them, you can achieve your goals,” he explained an audience of some 450 marketing professionals from across the Balkan region.

After the presentation, Croatia’s largest commercial broadcaster, Nova TV, recorded a featured interview with Sietse, to be aired in the days to come. Croatian portal Dnevnik featured an interview as well, in which he talks about the preparations for the Eurovision Song Contest we are involved with.

P.World, the company behind The Marketing Kingdom, sets itself apart from other conference organizers by turning its events into experiences. Spectacular opening shows and sudden surprises make their events well worth visiting.

Other notable speakers at The Marketing Kingdom were Bruce Bale of Facebook, Lars Silberbauer of Lego, Martijn de Jong of Tele2. Today, representatives of Yahoo!, Citi Bank, Microsoft, Puma and Philips will take the stage.

This video illustrates how our minds are being trained to recognize brands already from a very young age.

The CommBat initiative was launched by Jenny Le Large, founder of Talents XL, and includes several renowned communications professionals such as professor Betteke van Ruler of the University of Amsterdam, writer and entrepreneur Ben Warner, recruiter Michiel van der Borght, vice-president of the Amsterdam Communications Association Jacques Happe and Tjalling Damming, director of Van der Hilst Communications.

“Through online debates, which anyone can follow and contribute to, we aim to stimulate a dialogue that contributes to professionalizing the communications business. We are also planning regional gatherings to spark face-to-face dialogue with communications students, teachers and professionals,” says Jenny La Large, founder of CommBat.

“I am honored to be part of this group of admirable communications professionals. I accepted the invitation because of my firm believe that a young generation should take full use of the opportunity it has to reshape the world we inherit,” says Sietse Bakker.

The online dialogue is facilitated by CommunicatieOnline.nl, the leading communications industry portal in the Netherlands.

“A crisis is much alike an event, with all its complications, whereas the main difference is of course that you don’t want a crisis to happen,” says Marieke Duijts, Client Director and communications expert at Wow!works. “It is interesting to see that despite strict plans and regular disaster simulations, things didn’t go as planned” she added, suggesting that governmental organizations can learn valuable lessons from the event industry when it comes to crisis communications planning.

Although the full report has not yet been released, analysis shows that over a dozen organizations was involved with crisis communications at the time of the crisis. This lead to conflicting messages and damaged the citizens’ confidence in local authorities.

One of the key rules of crisis communications is to keep the decision making circle small. “It seems this fundamental rule has not been respected in the first place,” says Duijts after a first glance over media citing the report.

The latter could well be a typical challenge of countries like the Netherlands, where a large population lives in a relatively small area, where cities are small and where a crisis easily stretches across city boundaries.

Creating a fan community from scratch is always hard, both for new initiatives as well as established brands. One can argue that the Winter Youth Olympics are both. “With an event that only takes place once every four years, you don’t get many opportunities to get it right. Especially for an event for youth, which by the time the next edition takes place, has grown up,” says Sietse Bakker, CEO of Wow!works and events expert.

Social media are well-embedded into the event’s website, but the buzz seems yet to come. For an event of such magnitude, having just under 25,000 fans on Facebook and just over 2,300 followers on Twitter (and a lot of sub-accounts with substantially less followers) is not a lot. Modest media attention for the Games, compared to the global hype around the adult Olympics, is certainly part of the challenge.

Sports bring people together. To achieve that same effect on social media, the Youth Olympic community needs strong ambassadors who can take the lead in the online dialogue.

“We should adapt the Olympic programme to the wishes of a young generation, and not be too conservative,” said IOC Chairman Jacques Rogge. “In my opinion, the Youth Olympic Games are the perfect place to experiment,” he added. The latter hopefully also counts for the way the Games are being promoted. London 2012 is the first edition of the Games after the social media boom and it will be interesting to see how the organizers deal with that opportunity. The activity on the London 2012 Facebook profile shows a hopeful beginning!

Meanwhile, electronics companies are rolling out so-called intelligent TV sets, that are directly connected to the internet. These TV sets give consumers simplified ways to watch video on demand and IPTV-channels, such as the ones YouTube is planning to launch.

“On short term, traditional TV channels will keep their popularity, but services like the one YouTube is about to launch are most definitely going to take market share away from them. First, we expect that traditional TV channels will see a bit by bit decline of viewership with the younger generation. In three to five years, YouTube and similar providers could very well take over a significant portion of the market. Traditional TV channels have to get prepared,” says Stijn Smulders, Head of Media Productions at Wow!works.

YouTube, currently part of Google, has announced to offer in-house productions as well as externally produced content.