Belgium

Profiel

Een geschikte kandida(a)t(e):

• Heeft een universitair diploma in communicatie, marketing, journalistiek, politieke en sociale wetenschappen of een gelijkaardig domein.
• Is bijzonder geïnteresseerd in de mensenrechten in ontwikkelingslanden.
• Heeft uitstekende redactionele en organisatievaardigheden en oog voor detail.
• Heeft als moedertaal het Nederlands of het Frans - ideaal met een goede kennis van de andere landstaal en van het Engels.
• Beschikt over een sterk aanpassingsvermogen en zin voor verantwoordelijkheid.

 

Advocaten Zonder Grenzen (ASF) is een internationale NGO, gespecialiseerd in de verdediging van mensenrechten en ondersteuning van justitie. Ons hoofdkantoor is gevestigd in Brussel, wij hebben vaste kantoren in zeven landen (Burundi, Centraal Afrikaans Republiek, Democratische Republiek Congo, Oeganda, Tsjaad, Tunesië en Zambia).

De stage

De stagiair(e) werkt onder leiding van de Communicatieverantwoordelijk en zal meewerken aan de volgende projecten:

• Updaten van de website en de nieuwsbrieven.
• Updaten van de sociale mediaprofielen Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Issuu, Flickr...
• Redactie van brieven, persberichten, artikels, etc.
• Ondersteuning bij het ontwerp van het jaarverslag 2016.
• Ondersteuning bij de organisatie van een feestje voor de 25^e verjaardag van ASF (op 9 juni 2017) en van de jaarlijkse algemene vergadering.
• Hulp bij ASF stand tijdens de Advocatenrun op 4 juni 2017.
• Opvolging van de pers (press book, persartikels).
• Opvolging van de lidmaatschappen en schenkers: updaten van de databank, inclusief zoeken naar nieuwe contacten, dankbrieven opstellen, etc.
• Administratieve taken (notities van vergaderingen) en vertalingen naar het Nederlands.
• Deelname in andere relevante taken.

 

Periode

Idealiter vier maanden, vanaf 10 mei 2017.

Wij bieden

• De gelegenheid om je professionele competenties verder uit te bouwen in de veeleisende werkomgeving van een internationale NGO.
• Een zinvolle stage waarbij je een verschil kunt maken bij de opbouw van een rechtvaardige wereld.
• ASF biedt haar stagiair(e)s een tegemoetkoming in de kosten aan van € 8,00 per dag voor verplaatsing en lunch.

Interesse?

Stuur de volgende documenten ten laatste op 26 april naar sdegee@asf.be (met als onderwerp “Stage Communicatie”):

• CV
• Sollicitatiebrief (vergeet niet je datum van beschikbaarheid te vermelden)

Het kennismakingsgesprek en de testen zullen plaatsvinden tijdens de week van 1 mei 2017.

 

 

ROLE RELATED EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

1. ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Capable networker: Good interpersonal skills and intercultural competence, including tactful but effective facilitation to agree objectives and get things done;
• Excellent communicator: Strong communication skills with a high standard of spoken and written English;
• Reliable organiser: Strong planning and project management skills, including capacity development programs, advocacy planning, and event organisation;
• Motivated team player: focus on supporting the team and Eurodad partners to achieve objectives, combined with ability to prioritise, use own initiative and work independently.

2. ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Previous experience in an advocacy or campaigning civil society organisation, particularly experience in network coordination and/or capacity building;
• Working in a CSO coalition or network and awareness of diverse civil society tactics;
• Five years’ work experience of:
• Organising events and coordinating activities, preferably for CSO coalitions or similar groupings;
• Research and analysis: writing briefings or reports on international development or related issues;
• Writing for specific audiences: Making complex topics accessible and relevant to policy audiences, including writing succinct and well structured summaries, articles, and briefings.
• Educated to at least degree level in political sciences, economics, social sciences, development studies or related subject;
• Understanding of debt and development finance policy issues, and related policy and political debates;
• Computer literate, familiar with standard software, including MS Office.

3. DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE:

• Understanding of the workings of relevant multilateral institutions: the European Union, World Bank, UN, and IMF;
• Working in a developing country and/or working with organisations from the Global South;
• Fluent in other European languages.

Role Purpose:

The purpose of this role is to take forward the Eurodad network’s crucial work on preventing and resolving debt crises, and pushing for radical changes in the way private finance is used.

The Networking and Advocacy Officer will help to ensure that Eurodad builds strong and effective coalitions for change, and help to empower civil society organizations in Europe and beyond. The role involves network strengthening and outreach, coordination and information sharing, monitoring and analysing policy developments, supporting advocacy and capacity development.

The successful candidate will balance excellent organisation and coordination skills with strong interpersonal communication in a multicultural context, and the ability to plan, organise and implement under their own initiative. They will be excited by working at the cutting edge of development finance policy campaigns for transformative change, and have experience of working with advocacy-focussed civil society groups or similar organisations.

Key contacts:

Eurodad colleagues, Eurodad members and other civil society organisations in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America, academics and think tanks, officials in organisations such as the European Commission and Parliament, United Nations, World Bank and IMF.

Contract & location:

Brussels-based, permanent contract. Competitive salary, depending on skills and experience. Hospitalisation insurance, travel insurance and contribution to pension plan.

JOB DESCRIPTION

A. NETWORK COORDINATION AND EVENTS ORGANISATION (50%)

1. Co Organise, coordinate and support the implementation of a capacity development programme for European civil society organizations and activist groups, focusing on the two thematic areas ‘ending debt crises’ and ‘private investment’;
2. Organise, facilitate and attend meetings, conferences, teleconferences and other processes with Eurodad members and others to share information and to agree common strategies and initiatives;
3. Organise and participate in other events;
4. Respond to questions from Eurodad member groups, and other allies;
5. Coordinate joint activities with network members and others.

B. ADVOCACY SUPPORT (20%)

1. Support the organisation of advocacy meetings, including with politicians, officials and parliamentarians;
2. Present Eurodad work at conferences and seminars;
3. Input into Eurodad’s advocacy strategies in key areas.

C. POLICY MONITORING, RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS (20%)

1. Conduct research and policy analysis on relevant development finance issues, with a focus on debt and private finance;
2. Produce briefings and toolkits based on research on current development finance processes, policies and practices;
3. Keep up to date with key issues, including monitoring relevant official and civil society activities in policy areas identified as network priorities;
4. Produce articles, updates and summaries of key documents, political events and civil society processes to disseminate, including through Eurodad’s newsletter, website, email lists and through member and other publications.

D. TEAM AND ORGANISATIONAL SUPPORT (10%)

1. Prepare input to donor reports as required;
2. Support the team and Eurodad colleagues as necessary, including occasionally taking on tasks and responsibilities outside this job description to meet team or organisational needs;
3. Supporting colleagues and assist with the day to day running of the office.

Candidate profile

•  High school degree
• Bachelor in Social, Anthropological or Paramedical studies is desirable
• An official translator qualification is desirable
  

• 2 years working experience 
• Previous experience with MSF or other NGO is desirable
  

• English is essential
• Arabic or Dari/Pashto is essential
• French, Dutch and Other languages spoken by migrants are desirable

• Autonomous, proactive, flexible
• Good transversal competencies such as cultural awareness, networking and building relationships
• Good personal skill in working in team
• Belgian Driver’s License

Conditions

• 12 months contract - full-time – based in Belgium / Charleroi
• Hospital Insurance (DKV) – Pension Plan –  100% reimbursement for public transport costs
• Starting date : May 2017

Deadline for applications: 17^th of April 2017

Interested candidates should send a cover letter (in French or English) and curriculum vitae by e-mail to Steven Opsomer : Steven.OPSOMER@brussels.msf.org with « cultural mediator » in the subject

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted

Context

MSF is planning a pilot project in Belgium targeting asylum seekers and newly arrived refugees (men, women and children) living in accommodation facilities or individual housing. The project aims to decrease morbidity and severity of mental health for the asylum seekers in Belgium with the specific objective to: Mobilise civil society and publicly demonstrate the need for mental health services for asylum seekers by piloting and documenting the efficacy of mental health and primary health services in a defined target population.

MSF plans to implement a Model of Care for mental health activities. The aim is to show that by intervening at an early stage, with not only specialized mental health staff, the mental health for asylum seekers and refugees can improve and reduce the burden of the primary and secondary health care. The project activities will be built on tree pillars: mental health activities – connection and networking with civil society – advocacy. The mental health activities will mainly consist of screening for mental health problems, and offering low threshold activities such as Psychological First Aid (PFA), Psychoeducation, Health Promotion, Group interventions and Individual counseling sessions (e.g. mental health assessment interview before referral). People who are in need of more specialized care will be referred to specialized care. Training and capacity building (e.g. on screening for mental health problems/detection and cultural briefing) will be given to staff at asylum centers, health care staff, schools and volunteers as part of the Model of Care. Care for staff and caretakers will be set up to prevent burnout due to emotional stress.

With a target population of 1000 people for the pilot project, MSF plans to have fixed and mobile teams to cover needs in collective and individual housing. The team composition will consists of Counsellors and Cultural Mediators with support from the Mental Health Manager. The Volunteer Focal Point will connect and network with volunteers from the civil society. The volunteers play an important part in organizing social activities/informing about psychosocial support for the individual and/or the family, in order to avoid worsening of people’s symptoms and stress.

Main purpose of the position

 Make the bridge between MSF and our beneficiaries with the aim to improve the quality of the services offered fostering the removal of linguistic and cultural barriers and improve the access to health care and different services.

Job Profile

• Raise awareness and promote mental health services among beneficiaries using the available tools and information transmitted by the supervisor
• Support the provision of quality services facilitating the communication between beneficiaries and staff (MSF and other) or volunteers by creating a trustful relationship with all counterparts.
• Provides proactively orientation and information to our beneficiaries with regards to the use of the available health care system and the provision of services by other actors.
• Provide health promotion messages on different topics according to the needs defined by the mental health supervisor.
• Provide updated information about the general situation according to the needs defined by the project coordinator. Reflect together with the mental health supervisor and team of MH counsellors to adapt messages to make them culturally acceptable, avoiding misunderstandings.
• Support and brief identified stakeholders in understanding specific aspects of the cultural background of the beneficiaries with whom you have cultural affiliations with the aim to improve the provision of qualitative services.
• Exchange with other cultural mediators and all MSF staff in order to approach each beneficiary in the most appropriate way.
• Share information on a daily basis with your supervisor about certain situations that have caught your attention during the day (stories about violence, ill treatment and particular problems).
• Support translation of MSF internal/external documents into the required languages.

Specific

• Assure the translation between the counsellor/MH supervisor and the client in his/her mother tongue making the words of the mental health professional understandable to the client and vice versa. The individual consultations or group sessions are driven by the counsellor/MH supervisor.
• Ensure that the beneficiaries understand the mental health support offered by the mental health team using the most appropriate vocabulary in order to avoid stigma and facilitating positive coping mechanisms.
• Perform in strict cooperation with the counsellor/MH supervisor, screening, psycho-education group sessions, group counselling as well as individual consultations for identified clients.
• Share with the mental health team, before or after the consultations, important aspects of the cultural background of the beneficiaries to be considered in order to improve the quality of MSF services.
• Apply proactively Psychological First Aid when encountering the beneficiaries in distress and refer to the counsellor/MH supervisor.
• Promote awareness on different health topics using the tools that were developed.
• Collect testimonies and carry out client survey, if requested by your supervisor.
• If requested, accompany clients in case of referrals or in case of follow-up mental health care in order to facilitate the provision of services.
• Collect and update information given and support the creation of Health promotion materials in collaboration with the mental health team.
• Ensure confidentiality and medical/psychological secrecy.
• Support the MH team with the Data Collection.
• Participates in team meetings, trainings and supervision with MH team.
• Participates in care for the caretaker’s sessions.
• Collects feedback from the beneficiary on the implementation and quality of the activity.

• A degree or advanced degree in a relevant field (or equivalent).
• Significant experience (10 years+) working on relevant nature-related policy & business issues.
• Proven experience in people management (5 years+).
• Experience with developing and implementing strategic approaches.
• Fluent in Dutch, French and English.
• A familiarity with working with politicians and business including those at the most senior levels.
• Excellent communication skills for both small meetings and large events.
• A track record of writing and delivering position papers, speeches, and presentations.
• Knowledge of federal & regional regulatory and legislative processes.
• A passion for the future of our Safeguard of our Natural World.

Context

WWF believes in a future where people and nature thrive, so we’re committed to safeguarding the natural world. WWF has teams of experts working in over 100 countries to protect the natural resources that sustain and inspire us: our forests, rivers, oceans, climate, food and wildlife. WWF harnesses the collective power of supporters around the world, communities, companies and governments to create real solutions for people and the planet. 

WWF employs knowledgeable, talented people who are passionate about engaging and inspiring others. People who share our optimism that it’s possible to change the world. People who are determined to make a difference.

Summary

The Policy Director is responsible for coordinating the Policy work of WWF in Belgium. He will be expected to develop the network of WWF with key stakeholders and decision makers and to further develop the positioning of WWF in Belgium by leading and shaping discussions in the Belgian public and create positive change for the Safeguard of our Natural World.

Your role

As Director of Policy, you’ll be member of the Executive team (SMT) and you’ll manage a team of 5+ people. You’ll be accountable for:

 

• developing the strategic approach to achieve WWF’s goals in policy;
• 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;
• prioritising, adapting and making decisions as necessary in a fast-moving context;
• being able to function as an organisational leader owning responsibility for organisation-wide goals, as well as focusing on the specific priorities of your own role;
• developing public policy positions 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 organisations to advance the policy goals;
• the know-how to influence and persuade policy makers and business leaders.

 

 

  

We offer

• A full-time permanent contract
• An attractive salary package for the sector including meal vouchers, group insurance, health insurance, 100% reimbursement of the costs of public transport ...
• A pleasant working environment in the heart of Brussels, easily accessible by public transport
• The opportunity to contribute to the mission of WWF and to share our values

 

Interested?

Use this link to send us your application.
Deadline for applications: 19/04/2017