European Working Group on TTIP & CETA Free Local Communities hires a person to support EU-wide campaign work and networking.
The campaign to build local political resistance to TTIP and CETA has been growing steadily over the past year. Currently TTIP campaigns in the following countries pursue the "TTIP/CETA-Free local authorities" campaign : France, Austria, Germany, UK, Spain, Belgium, Ireland and Italy. It aims at building longer term local political resistance to TTIP and CETA, internal political party debate, mobilisation option for local campaigners but also to open the door to talk about economic alternatives to transatlantic trade and free trade in general.
We seek to strengthen the pan-EU coordination of our work. This includes the implementation of pan-European campaign work including a higher profile and visibility at the European level as well as the broadening of this campaign approach and strategy towards other countries, such as Eastern European and Nordic countries.
For this we seek a person in order to strengthen the coordination between the national campaigns, foster the development of new initiatives and campaigns, and give a joint visibility to the overall dynamic.
Provide up to date facts and figures for NGOs to use in media outreach.
Support to the development of relationships and joint activities with umbrella organizations of local authorities at the European level.
Creative, pro-active, enthusiastic and dynamic, but also autonomous in his/her work.
The position is based in Paris, in Aitec's offices. The person will be jointly supervised by the Aitec's, FoEE's and Attac Austria's representatives in the campaign.
Salary : 2100 Euros gross + half the amount of the transport card + lunch vouchers + complementary health insurance.
Please send a short Curriculum Vitae and a letter explaining why you would like the job and explaining why you would be suitable to amelie.aitec (a) reseau-ipam.org before November 19th 2015.
We will only get in touch with candidates who we are inviting for an interview.
Interviews are scheduled for the week of the 23rd of November.
The post is initially for one year with possible extension depending on funding.