Generation 2004 is hiring a Secretary at the European Commission in Brussels

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For our daily work ‘For the many, not the few’ Generation 2004 employs a team of committed and hardworking colleagues.

If you are a Contract Agent FG II (in the Commission trade unions and staff associations are limited to employ CAs FG II for this type of post) you can join that team, as Generation 2004 is hiring for its headquarters in Brussels a full-time secretary. If you are not eligible but you know someone that is and that you believe could be interested in the job, please feel free to forward the message on.

We are looking in particular for:

A committed and proactive CA FG II colleague with a positive service attitude, a high sense of initiative and responsibility with strong organizational skills and ability to prioritise their workload. He/she should be a self-starter, team players and able to identify problems and offer solutions. Working mainly in English, but good knowledge of French would be an advantage. A good grasp of knowledge of administrative Commission IT Tools would be an asset such as MIPS, Presto, SharePoint, Connected, OIB Print shop; WebDOR SCIC and EUSurvey. Knowledge of WordPress for maintaining our website is welcome.

Job description:

  • Preparation of reports/minutes and draft position papers;
  • Carry out analytical tasks concerning the association’s activities including the extraction, collection and publication of basic statistics;
  • Coordinate missions and travel related tasks for the team;
  • Responsible for the implementation of the association’s communication strategy such as the design of posters, election material; logos and email templates;
  • Coordinating the monthly newsletter with the team in terms of content, as well as being responsible for the newsletter’s design and publication;
  • Managing the association’s internal wiki page, various databases and responsible of follow-ups;
  • Updating and uploading of the latest news and documentation in different online platforms which include the association’s public website, Facebook page, twitter page, yammer groups and Connected;
  • Coordinate conferences, trainings and events including video-connections and web-streaming;
  • Formalising and updating the service’s detailed organisational chart, which includes all roles;
  • Assisting legal teams in drafting positions and reports;
  • Maintain the overview of staff requests, meetings, social dialogs etc.

How to apply:

Interested candidates should send their CV together with a motivational letter and any evaluation reports/recommendation letters from their current/previous employer to REP-PERS-OSP-GENERATION-2004@ec.europa.eu.

The closing date for registration is 20th December 2019. Interviews will be held in the 2nd-3rd week of January 2020. Posts will be available from 16 April 2020.

Eligibility criteria:

Candidates must be already listed in a valid FG II Cast list. Based on justified requests a request for CAST could also be made.

Generation 2004 is the only EU staff association that unequivocally gives a voice to the interests of staff recruited to the EU institutions after 2004 and 2014 with diminished career prospects and employment conditions.

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