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RURAL YOUTH EUROPE

Job Vacancy

Secretary General

 

Rural Youth Europe is recruiting a Secretary General to be employed from 1st December 2008 (or dependant on the successful candidates notice period).  The job is currently based in Helsinki, Finland but will be moved to another country dependant on the country of origin of the successful candidate where the office would be ideally located within the offices of one of our member organisations.
Rural Youth Europe is a European Non-Governmental Organisation for Rural Youth.  We want to educate and train young people and create an awareness of the issues of the countryside and to promote intercultural understanding.  Our main activity is the organisation of international seminars for multipliers in rural youth work.  Rural Youth Europe is the umbrella organisation for 25 organisations from 23 European countries and regions.

Responsibilities and tasks
•    Support the elected Board
•    Organise and run European seminars and meetings in co-operation with others
•    Grant management (writing applications and reports)
•    Financial management (bookkeeping and budgeting)
•    Public Relations work (editing and layout of the newsletter, writing articles, editing seminar reports and other publications)
•    Prepare, organise and report about statutory meetings
•    Responsible for day to day running of the secretariat
•    Communication with member organisations, partners, etc.
•    Representation of the organisation

Profile of applicants
•    Experience in international youth work/NGO work
•    Very good knowledge of English (both written and oral)
and preferably a good knowledge of German. 
Further language skills are an asset
•    Able to work with MS Office (Word, Excel, Publisher), e-mail and internet
•    Bookkeeping and budgeting experience an asset
•    Good Communication skills
•    Excellent time management skills
•    Able to work independently and in international teams
•    Take and circulate minutes of board meetings and General Assembly.
•    Self-driven, sense of responsibility, good organisational skills
•    Team worker
•    Flexibility and willingness to travel and work occasionally during weekends
•    Knowledge of rural youth work and rural issues an asset

We offer:

  • A challenging job with a lot of responsibility in an international environment.
  • The contract will be for 35 hours per week or dependant on normal working hours of country that office is located in, with a probationary period of 6 months.
  • Salary indication: 24,000 to 28,800 Euros per annum – the final salary will be confirmed dependant on country that the office and Secretary General will be located in.

For further information please contact the Vice-Chairman Mr. Michael Schwab +49 16094 110922)  (michael.schwab@wll.de) or Delme Harries +44 7775 687656 (delmeharries@hotmail.com).  You can also find information about the organisation at www.ruralyoutheurope.com.

The interviews will take place on the Saturday 25th October 2008 in Northern Ireland – location to be confirmed.

Your motivation letter and CV (preferably by e-mail) should reach the following address by Friday 3rd October 2008:

Rural Youth Europe
Allianssi-talo
Asemapäällikönkatu 1
FIN - 00520 Helsinki

office@ruralyoutheurope.com