Vacancies

Project Assistant

The Twinning Project "Further Support to Kosovo Assembly" funded by the European Union, needs to fill the following job vacancy:

Project Assistant

Qualifications and skills required:

• university/college degree,
• professional fluency in written and spoken English,
• proficiency in Windows applications,
• at least 3 years similar experience,
• ability to work in a team, excellent inter-personal and communication skills,
• flexible and service-minded.
Experience in twinning or other EU-funded project is a serious asset.

You should have experience as assistant on foreign funded project(s) within Kosovo. Your duties among others will include a wide range of organizational, administrative and project support tasks (assisting the day-to-day implementation of the project; office management and general work such as answering phone calls, filing, photocopying, sending and receiving mails and faxes); active participation in preparation and editing reports and any other relevant project documents; undertaking general administrational duties required for project implementation; maintaining filing systems and facilitating the exchange of information between project partners; organization of conferences, training events, meetings and other visits; maintaining close working relationships and dialogue with Kosovo administration and counterparts. As part of your regular duties you will also be called on to carry out translation and interpretation tasks from and to English.
The position is based in Prishtina.

The position is announced for the 24 months duration of the project. The starting date for employment depends on the signing of the Twinning Contract, indicative starting time is September 2015.

How to apply:

Please send your CV in Europass format in English, a short motivation letter (up to 1 page, format A4) and contact details (position, work relation, phone and email) of 2 persons that we could contact to provide work references via e-mail to twinning.recruitment@gmail.com.
The subject of your email should be your full name.

Application deadline: 10 June 2015 at 16.00 hrs, local time of Kosovo.
Selected candidates will be invited for a personal interview in Pristina, expected to be scheduled for 23 June 2015.

NOTE: Twinning Manual foresees that the chosen assistant has not been a civil servant or agent of the beneficiary institution (Kosovo Assembly) in the past 6 months calculated at the moment of the start of the project nor is on leave from the beneficiary institution to take up the position.