Designer NOS Stories

• A gross monthly salary in scale G (between €3,397 and €5,056) for 36 hours per week. Scaling is dependent on your experience and in accordance with our CAO*.

• On top of that, you receive 8% holiday allowance, 6% year-end bonus, and an annual periodic increase.

• A one-year contract for 32-36 hours per week with the intention to extend this if it suits both you and us.

• A good pension scheme, €52 gross contribution to your health insurance, a significant discount on your gym membership and on the streaming service NLZIET.

• A contribution to your travel expenses, a train station within walking distance, and a free parking space at the door.

• In our building, you can make use of a quiet room, a lockable lactation room, and a company restaurant.

• More than 5 weeks of vacation.

• All the space to further develop your talents! Our own NOS Academy offers training that makes you better in your profession and advances you in your career. Additionally, you receive a personal career budget.

Do you know how to make journalistic stories clear and visually appealing for social platforms to reach young people? Then you are the new NOS Stories designer our design team is looking for!

Daily and weekly productions at an online newsroom

As one of the designers for NOS Stories, you are part of this newsroom which is focused on a younger audience (13 to 19 years old). You work together with editors and other designers on large and small news designs that are relevant to young people. Your workplace is right in the middle of the newsroom, where it all happens. Your perspective, creativity, and way of thinking make the news from NOS Stories more interesting, accessible, and relevant for a wide youth audience.

You devise the visualizations for productions. You often do this together with an editor. You create a realistic schedule, because news always has a deadline. Ranging from one hour to one week. With a good and concrete plan in hand, you get to work creating illustrations and motion graphics and work towards publication. You often work on multiple large and small design assignments simultaneously, because the news never stops.

The goal at NOS Stories is to bring the news to life for the target group. So, you don't just create the graphic layer in a video, but you are also often on set working together with the presenters, camera, and lighting crew to direct during recordings, so that concept, graphics, and animations later go well with the imagery. The overarching (visual) concept is therefore an important part and task of the designers at NOS Stories.

Innovation and long-term development in the design team

Designers work at various newsrooms within NOS News, working on productions for television and online. Together, this group of twelve designers and a creative developer forms the design team, led by Head of Design Sterre Sprengers.
Regularly, you exchange experiences and inspiration, and discuss each other's work. And we do team outings, of course.

(Hilversum | 32-36 upw | cao-contract | salary max. €5,056)

At the NOS, you are immediately part of one of the largest news organizations in the Netherlands. We are there always and everywhere: via the app and website, socials, TV broadcasts, teletext, and radio bulletins. With our news, we reach millions of Dutch people every day.

In the NOS design team, there are designers working across various NOS newsrooms. They create videos, (info)graphics, animations, specials, and other visualizations for the news. These stories appear in the app, on web and social, and can also be used in the NOS news bulletins.

• This production is the result of extensive investigative journalism: Doctors in shock: girls sent to Spain for INTENSE abdominal surgeries.

• For our annual series Eindexamenspreekuren, we always set up the set ourselves.

• In this series of shorts about brand clothing (these, these, and these), you can see how concept, set, camerawork, and graphics are developed in cohesion.

• This video about 9/11 is a good example of how the NOS Stories house style comes together in post-production and graphics.

• And weekly we do the Conversation with the Prime Minister, entirely in NOS Stories style and approach.

Why choose a career at the NOS? Because we are an inspiring workplace where your contribution makes the difference! At our company, passionate designers and journalists work, we work with the very best techniques, and we constantly strive for innovation and improvement.

We love to learn from, and with each other, and strive for quality in everything we do. And because we produce a lot, there is plenty of opportunity to experiment and learn at a high tempo.

At the NOS, we want to be a reflection of society in both our reporting and our workforce. Do you contribute to this? Then we would love for you to come work with us.

* link to the CAO for Broadcasting Personnel can be found at the bottom.

Enthusiastic from all sides Everywhere at the NOS, you sense the passion of your colleagues. Connect yours to it and you will notice immediately: more than interesting conversations from which you are constantly learning. And we from you.

Professional and informal atmosphere
Everyone at the NOS is crazy about their profession. And we love to talk about that. Feel free to do so about your specialty as well. The informal and open atmosphere provides plenty of room for that.

Going for the best together
Delivering quality is the standard at the NOS. Not only from our mission, but also from a sincere passion for the profession. Because top can always be even better, you are open to feedback.

Teamwork out of conviction
At the NOS, you work with extremely enthusiastic colleagues. That enthusiasm also includes intensive and eager collaboration. In fact, you help each other and you learn from each other.

You are an experienced online designer who knows their way around social media well and is in their element in news journalism. You love collaborating and, with your accessible and energetic working attitude, you contribute to constructive cooperation within the design team and the NOS Stories newsroom. You work effectively and produce quickly.

Working at the NOS appeals to you because it offers you a chance to tell socially important topics accessibly to a large youth audience. You do this with a creative eye and an eye for concept, within the recognizable NOS Stories house style.

Furthermore:

• You have at least five years of relevant work experience, preferably at a journalistic newsroom, but in any case in a multidisciplinary team setting, and an HBO-level of thinking.

• You are at home in programs such as After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Knowledge of programs such as ProCreate, Blender, Cinema4D, or Unity is a welcome addition.

• You are curious and you have ideas, you think along, and you make suggestions. You bring others along in your plan and can explain choices well. You are approachable, and you actively commit yourself to collegiality and a pleasant atmosphere.

• You are reliable and a true collaborator. You maintain a good overview, create your own schedule, and are used to working with tight deadlines.

• For you, giving, receiving, and processing feedback is a natural part of your work, and you continuously improve your work (attitude).

• You are well-informed about the latest developments in the field of motion and design, social media, and online journalism, and you recognize new possibilities for NOS Stories within them.

• You are well-informed about the news, and you are curious about what is happening in the world. You have a broad news diet and are familiar with social platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

Are we talking about you? Apply!

Interested in working with us as a designer? We would love to meet you. Please respond no later than Sunday, November 8th via the application button, answer our questions, upload your CV and portfolio, and write a short letter in which you tell us more about yourself.

If you already have ideas about the design of NOS Stories' expressions, please feel free to mention them as well.

Our application process consists of two interviews. An assignment may be part of the application procedure.

You will receive a response from us on Monday, November 9th.
First interviews are on November 17, 18, and 19 (morning).
Follow-up interviews will take place on Tuesday, November 24.

If you have any questions, email recruiter Marijn Immink at marijn.immink@nos.nl. For more information about the position, you can contact Sterre Sprengers, Head of News Design, via: sterre.sprengers@nos.nl.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier if there are sufficient responses.

Please respond via the application button below if you are interested.