Diversity Internship – Multiple Positions within the Three Missions’ Traineeships Programme

Place description

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 purposes from folks of all backgrounds. We don’t discriminate on the idea of incapacity, race, color, ethnicity, gender identification, faith, sexual orientation, age, veteran standing or different class protected by regulation. 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 Obligations)

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 precise factor to do, and it helps us all carry out higher. We welcome and encourage purposes from folks of all backgrounds. We don’t discriminate on the idea of incapacity, race, color, ethnicity, gender identification, faith, sexual orientation, age, veteran standing or different class protected by regulation. 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 hitch 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) workforce. 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’d be working in one among these Missions. We’ll take your choice and talent set under consideration to the most effective of our potential. We’ll assist you all through your time within the UK Missions with coaching, considering your future ambitions and aiming to offer related publicity to the areas that curiosity you. Until specified under as a vital requirement, all coaching is feasible on the job.

This is a chance to search out out what it’s wish to work in a diplomatic mission. We might significantly welcome purposes 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 is usually a chance so that you can affect and form the way forward for our mission by sharing your concepts on how we will enhance our variety and inclusion efforts. We welcome recent views and completely different views. Expertise in comparable roles and/or accomplished college diploma usually are not a requirement.

These traineeships present an expert immersion exterior of any instructional programme. Subsequently, no paperwork with a college or college could be signed.

Please discover under 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 Group sits on the coronary heart of the British Embassy in Brussels. The workforce engages the Governments of Belgium and gives reporting, evaluation and exterior communications to assist a variety of UK pursuits in Belgium, together with international coverage, variety, local weather change, economics, critical organised crime and safety.

You’ll assist the work of the Political and Public Diplomacy Group. You’ll assist the workforce by analysis and evaluation of key international coverage priorities, Belgian politics and supply administrative assist for our communications work. For the safety and critical organised crime coverage areas, you’ll assist with researching and monitoring developments in subjects 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 in opposition to gender based mostly violence. You’ll take part in Embassy outreach, supporting occasions and conferences. Additionally, you will supply basic administrative assist together with arranging conferences and sustaining databases.

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

We’ll give you studying and improvement alternatives and an opportunity to contribute to our Variety 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 total vary of UK authorities enterprise, with workers drawn from a variety of presidency departments and companies in addition to domestically 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 perform. Your position will possible embrace 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. It’s possible you’ll be influencing and reporting on a variety of EU coverage areas. Alongside this, you’ll possible work with our Enterprise Administration Group and Enterprise Help Officers on administrative duties resembling information dealing with.

We’ll give you studying and improvement and alternatives to contribute to our Variety 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 utility when you’ve got a selected curiosity in an EU coverage space or speciality (resembling media, occasions, analysis and so forth.).

Length: 6 months

The UK Joint Delegation to NATO is the very 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, latest occasions in Russia and Ukraine, and NATO’s rising political weight and breadth of engagement, can be strengthening the Alliance’s significance to the UK’s international coverage.

We’re searching for one trainee to assist NATO work. The precise position will depend upon evolving priorities however the roles is more likely to concentrate on NATO’s seventy fifth anniversary and a NATO Summit in 2024. It’s a nice alternative to study how NATO works and you may be totally 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 places of work 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 might achieve precious 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 Assets, transport, finance, IT, hospitality, estates and extra, in assist of enterprise wants.

Length: 6-9 months

The traineeship contract beginning date could be mentioned between the events. Please be aware that regardless of the beginning date indicated under, the traineeship could begin later as a result of safety clearance course of. We suggest delaying any selections relating to lodging until stated clearance comes by.

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

Important {qualifications}, expertise and expertise

• Wonderful written and spoken English (minimal C1 degree in keeping with the Frequent European Framework of Reference for Languages*);
• Wonderful written and spoken French or Dutch (minimal C1 degree CEFR) is a requirement just for the British Embassy;
• Private or skilled expertise of variety and its challenges, and curiosity in furthering variety and inclusion within the office;
• Curiosity in working in a public organisation;
• Good communications expertise;
• Welcomes the chance to determine 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 a wide range 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 Publish: British Authorities Workplace
Variety of vacancies: 7
Wage Forex: EUR
Stipend/Allowance: €1.300
Begin Date: 4 September 2024

Different advantages and situations of employment

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

The skilled immersion indemnity for this place is €1.300. Further 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 per thirty days of Traineeship.

Please be aware that Belgian nationals shall be paid their wage gross and are anticipated to adjust to their tax obligations by completion of a tax return to the Belgian authorities. Non-Belgian nationals will obtain their wage web, minus the deduction of an equal degree of Belgian tax retained at supply. Additional data on this shall be given to candidates through 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 provided an Traineeship supply.

Skilled Immersion Traineeship Necessities:

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

Employees recruited domestically by the British Diplomatic Missions in Belgium are topic to Phrases and Circumstances of Service in keeping with native Belgian employment regulation.

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

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

Further data

Please be aware that the deadline for purposes is 23:55 on the day talked about within the above discipline “Software deadline”.

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

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

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

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