Secretary General

Place description

As our Secretary Normal (SG), you’ll not simply oversee the administration of our places of work in Brussels and Strasbourg and handle our devoted crew of 11 employees. You’ll embody our imaginative and prescient, inspiring and main the AER into the long run. This can be a position for a visionary chief who can articulate a shared future and drive AER’s strategic path, making certain our voice is heard from native communities to worldwide boards. You’ll characterize the AER in its working relationships with governments, the EU, worldwide organisations, and in direction of the general public and the media. The Secretary Normal stories to the Government Board and is chargeable for implementing the selections of AER’s governing our bodies.

Key duties

• Lead the AER with integrity and imaginative and prescient, guiding our technique, operations, and impression;
• Foster a tradition of innovation and collaboration, encouraging new concepts and approaches to satisfy the challenges dealing with Europe’s areas;
• Interact with EU establishments, worldwide organisations, and regional governments, selling AER’s pursuits and increasing our affect;
• Nurture relationships and develop strategic partnerships with different regional and native organisations and accomplice networks. Talk with a various vary of stakeholders;
• Handle and encourage a various crew at two areas, creating an surroundings that draws, retains, and develops high expertise;
• Present and additional develop a pleasant and truthful working environment with area for concepts and potentialities to be taught;
• Oversee the funds and administration, in session with the Treasurer and Government Board;
• Put together conferences of the Government Board (4-5 occasions yearly) and the Normal Meeting;
• Preserve relationships and join with members and completely different communities inside the community. Entice new members collectively with the crew and Government Board;
• Symbolize the AER at high-level occasions together with talking engagements;
• The SG might be required to work in Brussels (BE), with travels to the opposite workplace in Strasbourg (FR) and to member areas and a few community collaboration organised by way of digital channels.

{Qualifications}

• Superb information of regional realities in Europe, and of challenges and alternatives for areas on the European degree. Expertise of working in or with regional governments;
• Good understanding of EU Establishments and their methods of working, coverage making, and funding alternatives;
• Fascinating: Monitor report of working in an EU political surroundings and influencing coverage at this degree;
• Related educational diploma (M.A. or increased), e.g., in political science, economics and social sciences, worldwide relations, European research, legislation or one other self-discipline associated to AER actions. Candidates with a decrease diploma could also be thought of if they’ll display excellent extra {qualifications} or expertise within the AER’s fields of labor.

Core competencies

• Strategic thinker with a transparent imaginative and prescient for the way forward for regional cooperation in Europe;
• Distinctive communication expertise, able to advocating for our areas’ pursuits throughout numerous platforms and to various audiences;
• Dedication to our values of democracy and transparency, equity and solidarity, openness and dialogue, to embracing variety, and to human rights, rule of legislation, and good governance;
• Wonderful oral and written use of English (AER working language) and no less than one extra European language, with command of French being a bonus.

Managerial competences

• Confirmed management in a multinational and multicultural setting, with the flexibility to encourage and unite a various crew in direction of frequent goals;
• A profitable observe report in senior administration, together with administration of employees and budgets in a global and multicultural surroundings, and growing sources of revenue;
• Potential to develop and talk methods and work plans based mostly on members’ priorities;
• Palms-on, with the flexibility to be self-supporting and to help the crew in any respect ranges of labor when required;
• Expertise with community management and the functioning of membership organisations, together with advising and reporting to boards and politicians.

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