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Join ACR+, the Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management!

The Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (ACR+) is recruiting a Project Officer:

Key Tasks and responsibilities include:

• Day-to-day management of EU funded projects, including among others the following tasks: technical and financial reporting, implementation of project tasks such as:
  • Realisation of reports and documents on circular economy/sustainable resource management policies and practices, also promoting peer review mechanisms within ACR+ members and key stakeholders to establish benchmark data;
  • Contribution to ACR+ projects’ management, monitoring and reporting;
  • Organisation of webinars, workshops and thematic working groups as necessary;
  • Engagement of different stakeholders, from public authorities to civil society organizations, and to regional and EU policy officers
• Follow-up to specific requests arising from ACR+ members, such as:
  • Monitoring of relevant EU/international knowledge sources, research studies and publications on sustainable food systems;
  • Setting up peer review and peer-to-peer knowledge exchange processes among ACR+ members and key stakeholders;
  • Production of case study analyses, technical reports, and policy briefs

Qualifications, skills, experience:

• Qualified to Master’s degree level in (preferred order): environmental sciences and/or agronomy, or closely related subjects (knowledge of organic waste management in a circular economy is a strong asset);
• At least 2/3 years of relevant professional experience in the field of sustainable resources management is a strong asset;
• Familiarity with the process of sustainable resource management policy development and implementation, evaluation of technical and policy measures, cost-benefit analysis, data collection, validation and analysis;
• Experience in the management of international and/or EU funded project and experience in autonomously managing work at tasks and/or work package level are an asset;
• Languages: perfectly fluent in English (native speaker or equivalent), any other language are valuable assets;
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, combined with strong influencing skills, perseverance and pro-activeness;
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.

Terms and conditions:

Place of work: ACR+ Brussels secretariat, Brussels, Belgium. Frequent short trips abroad may be required as part of the management of EU funded projects;

Expected starting date: as soon as possible;

Full time job under permanent contract; economic conditions are defined according to the candidate's level of seniority and experience.

Other benefits :

• Extra-legal pay: we offer meal vouchers and eco-vouchers; hospitalisation insurance; we cover local public transport or offer a cycling scheme;
• Extra holidays: we offer extra-legal holidays (6 + office closed between Christmas and 2 January)
• Flexible working: our team organises its work to maintain a healthy work-life balance, including teleworking;
• Dynamic, international and motivated team at the service of ACR+ members for a more sustainable resource management at local and regional European level!

Application

The selection procedure includes a screening of CVs, interviews and tests and a final evaluation.

Due to the large number of applications, we receive for each posting, we are unable to provide feedback on all applications. Only successful candidates will be contacted.