REPUBLIKA SRBIJA
Job Advertisement for an EU funded project
Assistant (Full time) to the Resident Twinning Adviser (RTA) in EU Twinning Project on Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Hazardous Waste Management
Duration: 24 months, expected start in October 2010
Place of Work: Belgrade
Obligatory qualifications
- Be a Serbian native speaker with excellent English language skills;
- Have University degree in a relevant field;
- Willingness for overtime work and business trips in Serbia and study tours outside Serbia (including overnight stays);
- High sense of responsibility; excellent interpersonal and communication skills; interest in the subjects of the project and commitment;
- Mastering of office applications like MS-office, MS-PowerPoint, Outlook and internet software in order to maintain the Project's website;
- Driving licence for passenger cars.
Preferable qualifications
- German language skills;
- Experience in interpretation and in translation of texts in the above mentioned languages, with experience in environmental terminology;
- Working experience with Serbian public administration (but not as an public administration employee within the past six months);
- Knowledge of
- legal and administrative situation in Serbia;
- EU institutions, EU Funds, accession processes in Serbia and environmental policy/law;
- Experience of international donor funded projects, for example: EU funded projects, such as Twinning projects;
- Understanding and knowledge of project administration, with practical experience in the past;
- Have at least five year of professional experience.
Responsibilities
- Assistance to the Resident Twinning Adviser (RTA) and project experts in general management and administration of the project;
- In charge of the Twinning project's office, procurement, logistics, filing system, organisation of training, expert missions, study visits and meetings;
- Book-keeping of the project account (part of the project budget assigned for expenses taking place in Serbia), also dealing with VAT and tax issues;
- Support to research activities (internet, library services etc.);
- Assistance in the implementation of training programmes and other project activities;
- Compilation of project documentation; making available all documents generated during the performed activities (workshops, seminars, etc.) for the Serbian experts
- Compilation of documents for project reports
- Interpretation at meetings and other conversations for the RTA, the project team and visiting foreign experts;
- Translation of agendas, training programmes, manuals, legal texts, information brochures and other documents.
Applications
Your application should include:
- a motivation letter in English;
- a CV in English with detailed description of your professional experience and your education with exact dates;
- copies of relevant documents (university degree, reference letters etc.).
Note that the project assistant may not have or recently (past six months) have had any contractual relation with the Serbian public administration.
Qualified candidates are kindly asked to submit their applications by e-mail not later
than September 24, 2010 to
brigitte.karigl@umweltbundesamt.at (Project Leader: Brigitte Karigl)
Pre-selected candidates will be invited to an interview in the first week of October.