​​ Your job and responsibilities

Interested in being part of a dynamic and efficient team? Like variety in your daily tasks?

As an assistant in the Commission CIVEX in the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), you are responsible, along with the other assistants in the unit, for providing general administrative support to the work of the CIVEX Commission and for cooperating with administrators in their respective policy areas.

You autonomously coordinate the preparation and follow-up of official documents and correspondence, manage translation requests, and keep track of deadlines.

You also provide logistical organisation of various events and meetings (either in Brussels or in a hosting region) by following detailed CoR procedures in coordination with several CoR units, preparing documents and correspondence, and communicating with CoR Members, political group colleagues and external stakeholders.

You also provide administrative and logistical support for (onsite or remote) policy-related events and horizontal activities (studies, surveys, reports, consultations), in coordination with other units and external stakeholders.

You act as backup to the other assistants in the unit and carry out tasks as assigned by the Head of Unit. ​
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Are you the talent we are looking for?

• You possess previous experience in logistical and administrative support; you can organise your work very efficiently, you can prioritise when working under pressure, and you enjoy being part of a team.
• You have very good verbal and written skills, in particular for communicating with politicians and high-level stakeholders.
  
• You have a good command of standard IT applications and tools (Outlook, Excel, Word, Business Objects, SharePoint; etc.).
• Knowledge of the functioning of the European Union institutions would be an asset.
• You have a thorough knowledge of one official language of the EU and at least satisfactory knowledge of another official language of the EU: for functional reasons, a very good command of written and spoken English and a good knowledge of French is required. Knowledge of any other EU languages would be an asset.