Administrative and Communication Assistant EN/FR at FEAD (ASAP)
Based in the heart of Brussels, close to the EU-institutions, FEAD offers you the unique opportunity to work with a European trade association for the waste management industry.
Assignments:
- Provide administrative support for the office, such as management of the office agenda, answering the phone, responding to general inquiries and managing e-mails exchange (including mail merge), maintaining the internal and external contacts database and calendar
- Assist in communication’s activities: managing FEAD’s social media accounts, updating the website, FEAD Newsletter, liaising with the layout designer
- Assistance in organising FEAD internal and external events and meetings
- Sending semi-annual invoices to the FEAD members, preparatory bookkeeping in cooperation with the accountant
- Various other organizational/administrative tasks
Requirements:
- Administrative /secretarial experience within a European organization appreciated
- Excellent English and good command of French (oral and written skills)
- Excellent organizational skills: ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously and autonomously, establish priorities and follow them up
- Fully computer literate (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word)
- Outgoing personality, able to take initiatives and to adapt in a small and highly motivated team
- Knowledge of the European Institutions would be an advantage
More information about the vacancy can be found here.
Please send your CV and motivation letter to Ms. Nadine De Greef, Secretary General, at info@fead.be at the latest by 30 April 2018, stating ‘Administrative and Communication Assistant” followed by your last name in the subject of the e-mail. Applications will be reviewed as they come, therefore we advise you to send them as soon as possible.
Please note that only short listed candidates matching the profile will be contacted.
FEAD is recruiting a Policy Coordinator - Circular Economy – Legal & Market Issues (to start ASAP)
Based in the heart of Brussels, close to the EU-institutions, FEAD, European Federation of Waste Management and Environmental Services, offers you the opportunity to work with the European trade association representing the waste and resource management industry.
Reporting to the FEAD Secretary General, the successful candidate will play a key role in enhancing the legal dimension of the FEAD’s policy work with a particular focus on EU internal market, competition, environment and waste-related policies.
Assignments:
- Collect, review and disseminate information on policy areas relevant to FEAD members as well as provide the FEAD team with regular updates
- Monitoring EU policy developments and contributing to strategic policy analysis for members
- Co-ordination and organisation of FEAD Committees’ meetings: Material Recovery and Legal & Market Issues
- Drafting of position papers, voting recommendations, briefing notes and other policy material together with the members
- Identifying relevant stakeholders and establishing effective relationships
- Implementing advocacy actions based on adopted priorities
Representing the association in formal and informal meetings and reporting to the Secretary General and to the members
- Communication tasks: preparing and delivering speeches and presentations, participating in the organisation of internal and external events and meetings, social media, FEAD website, FEAD newsletter, relations with the press.
Requirements:
- High level of familiarity with EU environmental law, backed up by relevant academic qualifications, as well as broad knowledge of the EU institutions and procedures
- Strong interest and 2-3 years' experience in environmental issues/waste management policies
- Native or excellent English (written and oral); other language skills are an asset (in particular French and/or German)
- Excellent communication skills
- Fully computer literate
- Ability to take initiatives and adapt in a small and highly motivated team
- Ability to work effectively on several different topics and prioritise workload and time allocations
Please send your CV and motivation letter to info@fead.be by 25 April 2018, stating ‘Policy Coordinator' in the subject line.
More information about the vacancy can be found here.
The “Plastics Strategy: Challenges and opportunities of recycling” event, was held on 27 February, 16.00 – 19.00, in Brussels! This event was organised as a EURACTIV Forum event supported by FEAD.
Commissioner Vella participated to the event: his speech is available here. He was also interviewed by EURACTIV on the Plastics Strategy: the video is available here.
FEAD Vice-President Cesare Spreafico highlighted the challenges and opportunities of recycling: his speech is available here.
A video of the event, with interviews of the speakers and panellists, is available here. EURACTIV also published an article summarising the discussions of the event, available here.
The photos from the event can be found here.
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