Intern in the Communication Department - Audio-Visual Archiving

Our team and mission

The ESA Communication Department’s overarching goal is to raise awareness and understanding of ESA’s programmes and activities, and to highlight the concrete benefits these activities provide to every citizen. 
Our content is inspiring through science, technology and innovation, to attract or retain the best talent for European space programmes. We aim to demonstrate the value of space activities to our Member States and their taxpayers.
Within ESA’s Communication Department, the Digital Products and Channels Office is responsible for carrying out and coordinating the planning, technical management, implementation, and publishing of ESA’s digital media and online channels.

As intern, you will join the ESA Video team, which falls within the Digital Products and Channels Office. 
The video production team is producing a wide range of corporate audiovisual productions, from video shoots to live streams and a wide range of video products (editorial videos, explainer videos, long-form interviews, short promotional videos, support for short-form content, and B-roll footage for external media and productions) for various platforms (ESA website, ESA social media and outreach events).

Candidates interested are encouraged to visit the ESA website: http://www.esa.int

Field(s) of activity for the internship

As an intern, you will be part of the video team and support the implementation of its new video storage system by carrying out the following tasks:

• testing the server: sustained read and write speed, upload/download speed, network utilisation, simultaneous utilisation, latency;
• ensuring that the metadata system is linked to the relevant media;
• developing a storage architecture, including structuring folder hierarchies and transcoding files where necessary;
• following the pre-established metadata system and keyword thesaurus, maintaining continuous collaboration with the video editors to ensure that indexing is aligned with media searches on the server, and updating the keyword thesaurus when necessary;
• transferring video files from archived hard drives to an ESA server (XMAM/NAS);
• ingesting video files from day-to-day shoots to an ESA server (XMAM/NAS).

You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the ESA archiving project to develop a similar architecture/AI-assisted data management system.

Behavioural competencies

Result Orientation
Operational Efficiency
Fostering Cooperation
Relationship Management
Continuous Improvement
Forward Thinking

For more information, please refer to ESA Core Behavioural Competencies guidebook

Education

You must be a university student, preferably in your final or second-to-last year of university course at Master's level. In addition, you must be able to prove that you will be enrolled at your university for the entire duration of the internship.

Additional requirements

The working languages of the Agency are English and French. A good knowledge of one of these is required. Knowledge of another ESA Member State language is an asset.

During the interview, your motivation for applying to this role will be explored.

Knowledge and background in video editing and data management are an asset.