The CIDSE Secretariat, located in Brussels, is currently looking for a fulltime Communication and Campaign Officer to join its team in January 2009
Your responsibilities will include:
- To coordinate CIDSE’s external communication
- Develop, maintain and monitor CIDSE communication tools (CIDSE website, annual report,
newsletter, etc) - Coordinate layout and publication of reports
- Develop media strategies in cooperation with advocacy staff and working groups
- Making targeted media work: identify and foster press contacts, draft press releases
- Handle media inquiries and support CIDSE staff and representatives in their communication with media
- Develop and implement internal communication strategies and tools for the network
Member of CIDSE’s campaign team (current focus “Climate Justice”): - Provide support to campaign related meetings and events
- Cooperate closely with CIDSE staff involved in the campaign (officers and assistants)
- Develop campaign tools
Your profile:
- Relevant education / university degree
- Excellent written and oral communications skills, web-writing, cultural awareness
- Excellent written and spoken English and fluent French; other languages are an advantage
- Experience in internal / external communication, media work and campaigning
- Ability to identify the network’s internal and external communication’s needs, opportunities and priorities
- Good team work skills and ability to work in a network and multi-cultural NGO environment
- Good multi-tasker with result-oriented organisational, planning and communication skills
- Innovative, strategic and analytic skills
- Strong interest and understanding of development policies and the NGO community
- Knowledge of political decision-making processes and policies relevant to development NGOs
- Knowledge of and commitment to the mission and values of CIDSE
- An encouraging and service delivery professional attitude
- Advanced computer skills incl. web editing and graphic software
- Ability to travel, mainly within Europe, occasionally to other continents
CIDSE offers:
- the opportunity to work in an international organisation with a dynamic international team
- the opportunity to work in the Brussels EU-Quarter
- an interesting and challenging job
- a contract of unlimited duration for a full-time position
- a gross salary in the range of Euro 2800-3000 per month, plus End of Year Allocation (13th month salary) and holiday allowance (95% month salary). Additional benefits: extra pension insurance scheme, loss of salary insurance, hospitalisation insurance, meal checks, reimbursement of 60-100% public transport commuting costs
- 21 vacation days / year + extra legal holidays
For more information about CIDSE, please visit our website
Please send your CV and cover letter by 7 December 2008 to: recruitment@cidse.org
or to: CIDSE Secretariat - Attn: Secretary General
16, rue Stévin
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Interviews will be held 16 & 18 December
Fax: + 32 - 2 - 230 70 82
See also Euforic's newsfeed on CIDSE