Job Alert – Leadership Workout

Company headquarters and Public Affairs satellite offices are one family, and at the same time two very different worlds – and therefore source of a lot of frustration in Brussels and the home base. Headquarters are driven by business results, the stock exchange, sectoral developments, advisory meetings – Brussels satellite offices deal with political friends and foes, rumours, proposals and parliamentary amendments. Public Affairs staff often has different educational backgrounds than core business staff, and they train different skills in the political environment than those working directly on earning the revenues. What to do? The recipe is not so difficult, yet necessitates awareness in the headquarters: you are all in for a long-distance relationship, and you need to make an effort to make it work. Public Affairs staff needs to be included in important company meetings and corporate parties; they need to be involved with the Headquarter on a very regular basis. Companies need to make sure they don’t go native but learn and live the company’s goals and values. And Public Affairs professionals need to learn their Headquarter’s language – develop an interest in the business operations and greater context of managing a company.

That also helps to get into different career paths if desired. If you haven’t done so already, but you are starting to think about changing your Public Affairs career, here’s a workshop for you! 30 June 2016, 12.30-14.30 – in Brussels:

www.leadershipworkouts.eu/transferableskills

Find attached some jobs and as usual more on politjobs.eu.

Irina Michalowitz – im@politapps.eu

Erste Lesung bietet Praktikum Public Affairs
Angebot: Einblicke in die Arbeit einer Public Affairs Agentur; Einblicke in konkrete politische Inhalte und Prozesse in Berlin und Brüssel; Arbeiten in einem jungen und dynamischen Team; Eine sehr gute Arbeitsatmosphäre und enge Einbindung in die tägliche Arbeit; Eine durchgehende persönliche Beratung zur eigenen Positionierung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt; Hilfe beim Aufbau eines Netzwerks im gewünschten Karriereumfeld; Ein Heranführen an das politische Protokoll z.B. in Formulierungen und Veranstaltungen; Eine Schulung für die politiknahe Arbeit z.B. Schreiben von inhaltlichen Vermerken und kurzen Reden; Eine Einführung in die die notwendigen IT- und Softwarekenntnisse für die Büroarbeit […]

International Crisis Group seeks Development Team Intern (m/f)
Responsibilities: Assist the Development Team in prospect research, briefing notes, grant proposals and grant reports, and day-to-day grant and donor management. Support the development of communication materials for internal and external purposes. Support the development and organisation of data management tools to help streamline the Development Team’s work with other units. General administrative support, which includes enhancing and maintaining donor filing systems and support to the team as requested. […]

Oxfam seeks Digital Campaign Officer (m/f)
Key Responsibilities: Global campaign strategy and leadership; Co-develop and implement digital strategy behind global moments and campaign spikes for Inequality, GROW, RiC and EVAW; Support Digital WIN lead to drive campaign impact in all digital campaigns actions; Manage and implement a strategy around the Digital WIN content and development budget […]

Open Society European Policy Institute seeks Policy Analyst (m/f)
Responsibilities: develop and implement advocacy strategies to influence EU policy-makers, as well as relevant member state governments; build contacts and strong working relationships with relevant EU officials as well as member state representatives; research and write analytical and advocacy documents on EU migration and asylum policies and represent OSEPI at public events; advise OSF programs and foundations on grant-making related to his/her areas of responsibility as requested; represent Open Society in the media through publication of op-eds, articles and blog posts; organise advocacy trips to Brussels with partners and help coordinate campaigns working with numerous stakeholders and experts in Brussels, and in member state capitals if required; maintain constructive relationships with relevant NGOs, think-tanks, academics and other stakeholders in policy communities; participate in and if necessary lead civil society coalitions working on migration/asylum in Brussels […]

European Banking Federation seeks Trainee on Digital Issues (m/f)
Responsibilities: Monitoring policy and regulatory developments on the DSM, cybersecurity and retail issues and report to the relevant policy advisers and EBF Members; Providing support to the policy advisers on daily basis in analysing documents, conducting researches on specific issues/questions; Organising meetings with policy makers and stakeholders and drafting minutes of meetings; Helping organising events; Building stakeholder mapping; Attending events and conferences; Writing succinctly and informatively […]

Embassy of Maldives to Belgium & Mission to the EU seeks European and Commercial Affairs Consultant (m/f)
Responsibilities: Working with Embassy/Mission and Foreign Ministry colleagues to generate and progress policy objectives with EU stakeholders. Assist with the Embassy/Mission’s efforts to increase the awareness and understanding of the Maldives amongst EU Parliamentarians, European Commission officials and diplomatic community; Conduct research and produce briefing papers on a range of political and commercial developments and policy areas including climate change. Conduct research and produce briefing papers on opportunities for Maldives in other European countries. Principal drafter of briefings, statements and press releases for the Embassy/Mission, occasionally the Foreign Ministry. Participate and prepare contact reports for Embassy/Mission meetings. Monitoring political developments in the EU, and produce a regular briefing report on such developments, with special reference to issues of relevance to the Maldives and South Asia. Preparing a regular news briefing on current affairs in the Maldives for distribution to EU contacts. […]

WWF seeks Policy & Business Engagement Director
Responsibilities: developing the strategic approach to achieve WWF’s goals in policy & business; implementing the strategic approach through the development and execution of annual operational plans; managing the performance and development of your people and team; feeling motivated by the challenge and opportunity of managing people, and holding them accountable for delivery; prioritizing, adapting and making decisions as necessary in a fast-moving context; being able to function as an organizational leader owning responsibility for organization-wide goals, as well as focusing on the specific priorities of your own role; developing public policy positions & corporate partnerships in collaboration with the members of the team; representing WWF in meetings with government officials, companies, roundtables, etc.; building a network and setting up collaborations with other organizations to advance the policy & business goals; the know-how to influence and persuade policy makers and business leaders […]

UKREP seeks Senior Parliamentary Officer
Responsibilities: To gather information and monitor political and legislative developments in the EP covering the areas of internal market (with a particular focus on the Digital Single Market), energy and industry policy; To report back to Whitehall on parliamentary debates, votes and other events, and on dialogue with MEPs, their assistants and EP staff, providing London with insight into developments and high quality analysis of implications for UK policy, travelling to London to do so in person as appropriate; To advise colleagues in Whitehall on how to maximise UK influence in the EP, and plan strategies for delivering Ministers’ objectives; including through helping deliver effective visits; To convincingly present UK positions orally and in writing, both formally and informally to MEPs, their assistants and EP staff; To identify, build-up and maintain a broad and effective network of contacts in the EP and to help others in UKREP to do so. Use those contacts to promote UK policy interests in the EP […]