Assistant to the Resident Twinning Adviser
The European Union’s IPA 2011 Programme for the Republic of Serbia EU Twinning Contract No. SR/2011/IB/EY/01 “Capacity Building for the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia” is seeking to recruit:
Assistant to the Resident Twinning Advisors – (RTA)
2 persons
The role of the Assistants of Resident Twinning Advisors will be:
- To support the RTA in different aspects of his/her daily work including assistance in the following tasks:
- Assist the RTA in the implementation of the work plan of the twinning project, organising meetings, seminars and workshops, and creation of working materials for such events (slides, handouts, etc.), attending meetings, training workshops and other project related events and producing minutes of meetings
- Assist to prepare financial information and maintaining contact with the project beneficiaries and Member State (MS) experts
- Edit the monthly, quarterly and final project reports and any other relevant documents
- Provide support for office management and general work (answering phone calls, filing, photocopying, sending and receiving mails and faxes);
- Identify contracting and monitoring relations if necessary (extra translation, logistics for study visits and similar)
- Act as interpreter and translator for the RTA and Short Term Experts involved in the project if necessary
- Develop and maintain close working contacts and relations with Serbian project leader and RTA counterpart, and other Serbian officials involved in the project
- Assist the RTA and visiting short term experts with arrangements for travel accommodation and any other issues arising from residence and work in the Republic of Serbia.
Skills and experience required for the Assistant of Resident Twinning Advisor
The Assistants of Resident Twinning Advisors will:
- Have Serbian citizenship; with a university degree, an excellent command of spoken and written English and Serbian, knowledge of Slovak language would be a strong asset
- Be free of any links with staff members of the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia (AERS)
- Have excellent organisational and communication skills, and some understanding of financial management
- Have excellent computer skills (MS Office, Excel, Internet)
- Additional training, specialisation, post graduated studies in energy, engineering, law will be considered as an advantage
- Have excellent inter-personal skills
- Willingness to travel in the country
- Have an experience of working in Twinning or similar projects will be an advantage.
- Experiences in the field of energy sector are desirable.
Payment: 1,500.00 EUR (gross)
Closing date for applications: 22.05.2012.
Interviews will be held on: The short listed candidates will be invited for an interview on 11th and 12th June 2012 in Belgrade, Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia, Terazije 5 / V.
If you can start on the 15th June 2012 and fulfil the expected requirements please send an application including contact details (email and tel.) and curriculum vitae (CV in Europass format) in English to Ms. Luba Pavlovova.
*This project is financed by the European Union