Diversity Internship – Multiple Positions within the Three Missions’ Traineeships Programme (BEL24.131)

Range Internship – A number of Positions throughout the Three Missions’ Traineeships Programme (BEL24.131)

British Embassy

Brussels, Belgium

The British Authorities is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We worth distinction, promote equality and problem discrimination, enhancing our organisational functionality. We welcome and encourage functions from folks of all backgrounds. We don’t discriminate on the idea of incapacity, race, color, ethnicity, gender id, faith, sexual orientation, age, veteran standing or different class protected by legislation. We promote family-friendly versatile working alternatives, the place operational and safety wants permit.

Job Class: UK Mission
Job Subcategory: Public Diplomacy

Job Description (Roles and Tasks)

The British Authorities is an inclusive and diversity-friendly employer. We worth distinction, promote equality and problem discrimination, as a result of it’s the suitable factor to do, and it helps us all carry out higher. We welcome and encourage functions from folks of all backgrounds. We don’t discriminate on the idea of incapacity, race, color, ethnicity, gender id, faith, sexual orientation, age, veteran standing or different class protected by legislation. We promote family-friendly versatile working alternatives, the place operational and safety wants permit.

We want to recruit a number of trainees for 6-9 months to affix the UK’s Missions in Brussels: our UK Mission to the European Union (UKMis), our British Embassy in Brussels, our Joint Delegation to NATO and our Company Companies Benelux (CSB) group. We want trainees to begin in September 2024 however be ready for this to fluctuate as it’s conditional on profitable safety clearance. As an trainee, you’ll be working in considered one of these Missions. We are going to take your choice and talent set under consideration to the perfect of our means. We are going to assist you all through your time within the UK Missions with coaching, bearing in mind your future ambitions and aiming to offer related publicity to the areas that curiosity you. Until specified beneath as a necessary requirement, all coaching is feasible on the job.

This is a chance to search out out what it’s prefer to work in a diplomatic mission. We’d notably welcome functions from these with numerous backgrounds, for instance, if you’re an individual of color, have an ethnic minority background and/or are from a low socio-economic background, if you’re a neurodiverse particular person and/or if you’re an individual with disabilities. Candidates from these backgrounds are too typically under-represented in public establishments and in our Missions. As such, it’s also a possibility so that you can affect and form the way forward for our mission by sharing your concepts on how we are able to enhance our range and inclusion efforts. We welcome contemporary views and totally different views. Expertise in comparable roles and/or accomplished college diploma should not a requirement.

These traineeships present an expert immersion outdoors of any academic programme. Subsequently, no paperwork with a college or college might be signed.

Please discover beneath a brief description of every of the Missions:

The British Embassy represents the UK’s political, financial and consular pursuits with Belgium.

The Political and Public Diplomacy Crew sits on the coronary heart of the British Embassy in Brussels. The group engages the Governments of Belgium and supplies reporting, evaluation and exterior communications to assist a variety of UK pursuits in Belgium, together with international coverage, range, local weather change, economics, severe organised crime and safety.

You’ll assist the work of the Political and Public Diplomacy Crew. You’ll assist the group via analysis and evaluation of key international coverage priorities, Belgian politics and supply administrative assist for our communications work. For the safety and severe organised crime coverage areas, you’ll assist with researching and monitoring developments in matters resembling medication, unlawful migration, fashionable slavery, cybercrime, firearms trafficking and illicit finance. For the values agenda you’ll work on gender equality, social mobility and variety. You’ll assist run the Diplomat for a Day programme designed to encourage younger Belgian ladies to contemplate a profession in diplomacy and assist co-ordinate our assist for the UN 16 days of activism towards gender based mostly violence. You’ll take part in Embassy outreach, supporting occasions and conferences. Additionally, you will provide normal administrative assist together with arranging conferences and sustaining databases.

The job of an Embassy is to know the nation it operates in. We encourage our workers to share their experience and perception on life in Belgium, notably throughout the areas on which the Embassy focusses, with the intention to deepen our understanding and promote a studying tradition.

We are going to give you studying and improvement alternatives and an opportunity to contribute to our Range and Inclusion Committee. Sharing experiences with different trainees within the constructing is an additional bonus. Curiosity in media, occasion organisation and variety within the office shall be an asset, as will your willingness to be versatile to assist with all kinds of duties.

Length: 6-9 months. The beginning date for the traineeship is presently listed as September, however this may very well be earlier if each events agree.

The UK Mission to the European Union (UKMis) promotes and explains the UK’s pursuits to EU member states and the EU establishments. We work on the complete vary of UK authorities enterprise, with workers drawn from a variety of presidency departments and companies in addition to regionally recruited workers.

We’re recruiting a number of trainees to work in numerous groups throughout UKMis Brussels. You’ll assist and lead on duties that assist the groups and the organisation operate. Your position will doubtless embody reporting on occasions run by EU establishments, assume tanks or media organisations in addition to attending, and aiding with conferences throughout the Mission and wider UK civil service. You could be influencing and reporting on a variety of EU coverage areas. Alongside this, you’ll doubtless work with our Enterprise Administration Crew and Enterprise Assist Officers on administrative duties resembling knowledge dealing with.

We are going to give you studying and improvement and alternatives to contribute to our Range and Inclusion Committee. Sharing experiences with different trainees within the constructing is an additional bonus. Curiosity in media, occasion organisation and variety within the office shall be an asset, as will your willingness to be versatile to assist with all kinds of duties.

Please point out in your software in case you have a particular curiosity in an EU coverage space or speciality (resembling media, occasions, analysis and so on.).

Length: 6 months

The UK Joint Delegation to NATO is the important hyperlink between the UK Authorities and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Its principal roles are to advertise British pursuits in NATO and to maintain UK Ministers and Authorities Departments knowledgeable about NATO discussions.

NATO is the bedrock of Euro-Atlantic defence and safety. The UK performs a extremely revered management position within the Alliance. The rising risk to the worldwide order, current occasions in Russia and Ukraine, and NATO’s rising political weight and breadth of engagement, can also be strengthening the Alliance’s significance to the UK’s international coverage.

We’re on the lookout for one trainee to assist NATO work. The precise position will rely on evolving priorities however the roles is more likely to deal with NATO’s 75^th anniversary and a NATO Summit in 2024. It’s a nice alternative to find out about how NATO works and you may be absolutely built-in into the work of the Delegation.

Length: 6-9 months

The Company Companies Benelux (CSB) delivers a variety of high quality company providers in assist of our missions in Brussels. We additionally assist our missions in Luxembourg and The Hague, a big UK Border Pressure detachment and the consultant workplaces of the UK’s three Devolved Governments (of Scotland, Northern Eire and Wales). Our buyer base, together with workers dependants, is round 600 folks.

As an trainee in CSB you can achieve worthwhile expertise throughout a variety of labor areas together with lodging providers and preparations for newly arrived officers taking on duties in our missions to Human Sources, transport, finance, IT, hospitality, estates and extra, in assist of enterprise wants.

Length: 6-9 months

The traineeship contract beginning date might be mentioned between the events. Please observe that regardless of the beginning date indicated beneath, the traineeship could begin later because of the safety clearance course of. We advocate delaying any selections relating to lodging until mentioned clearance comes via.

Throughout your software, you may be requested to finish questions on ‘Speaking & Influencing’ and your expertise of range and inclusion. You possibly can learn extra about Civil Service Behaviours here.

Important {qualifications}, abilities and expertise

• Glorious written and spoken English (minimal C1 degree based on the Frequent European Framework of Reference for Languages*);
• Glorious written and spoken French or Dutch (minimal C1 degree CEFR) is a requirement just for the British Embassy;
• Private or skilled expertise of range and its challenges, and curiosity in furthering range and inclusion within the office;
• Curiosity in working in a public organisation;
• Good communications abilities;
• Welcomes the chance to ascertain trusting relationships with folks from numerous backgrounds and experiences;
• Skill to coordinate and organise actions resembling inside and exterior occasions;
• Familiarity with MS Workplace instruments;
• Flexibility – the willingness to work on quite a lot of administrative duties, typically working throughout groups.

Required behaviours

Managing a High quality Service, Speaking and Influencing, Working Collectively.

Software deadline: 17 April 2024
Grade: Internship
Sort of Place: Full-time, Intern
Working hours per week: 36. 25
Area: Europe, Jap Europe & Central Asia
Sort of Submit: British Authorities Workplace
Variety of vacancies: 7
Wage Forex: EUR
Stipend/Allowance: €1.300
Begin Date: 4 September 2024

Different advantages and circumstances of employment

These are full-time skilled immersion traineeships with a period of 6 to 9 months, 36.25 hours internet for five working days every week.

The skilled immersion indemnity for this place is €1.300. Extra advantages together with commute refund and luncheon vouchers of €8 per workday are additionally supplied and commute refunds for public transport.

Trainees have entry to 1 day of paid annual go away and 1 day of unpaid go away monthly of Traineeship.

Please observe that Belgian nationals shall be paid their wage gross and are anticipated to adjust to their tax obligations via completion of a tax return to the Belgian authorities. Non-Belgian nationals will obtain their wage internet, minus the deduction of an equal degree of Belgian tax retained at supply. Additional data on this shall be given to candidates in the course of the recruitment course of.

Please be suggested that the British Diplomatic Missions won’t be able to satisfy the journey prices incurred when travelling to the interview, nor the prices related with relocation if supplied an Traineeship provide.

Skilled Immersion Traineeship Necessities:

• Be a minimal of 18 years previous;
• Proof of legitimate medical protection for the interval of the Traineeship (European/World Well being Insurance coverage Card);
• The profitable candidates shall be topic to skilled background checks and safety clearance.

Workers recruited regionally by the British Diplomatic Missions in Belgium are topic to Phrases and Circumstances of Service based on native Belgian employment legislation.

Visa/work allow necessities: Candidates should presently maintain the unbiased proper to stay and work in Belgium and be ready to make sure that proper stays all through the scope of the contract.

Please observe that it’s your duty to make sure you meet the authorized necessities to stay and work on this nation.

Extra data

Please observe that the deadline for functions is 23:55 on the day talked about within the above subject “Software deadline”.

We advise you to permit sufficient time to finish and submit your full software, since solely functions accomplished and submitted earlier than the deadline shall be thought of.

Please bear in mind that the deadline for submitting functions is taken into account to be the time zone for the nation the place the emptiness has arisen.

*Please observe for extra data on the Frequent European Framework of Reference for Languages: Studying, Instructing, Evaluation ranges please click on on the next hyperlink CEFR. Please keep in mind in case you might be invited for an interview your language talent goes to be assessed.

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