Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer - Debt Justice

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Eurodad is looking for a Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer to efficiently and effectively work with our Debt Justice Team. 

Deadline: Sunday 28 April 2024, 23h59 CET

 

The ideal candidate 

The purpose of this role is to work with Eurodad’s debt justice team to take forward the crucial work of preventing and resolving debt crises, and pushing for fundamental reforms of the international financial architecture. The role involves coordinating and producing robustly researched analysis, with a strong advocacy focus, and contributing to build strong and effective coalitions for change, helping to empower civil society organizations in Europe and beyond. The successful candidate will work at the cutting edge of debt and development finance campaigns for transformative change. They will require policy analysis skills with strong interpersonal communication and be self-motivated with the ability to plan, organise and implement activities under their own initiative. They will have experience working with advocacy focussed civil society groups or similar organisations and have a good working knowledge of relevant international institutions.

  • Key contacts: Eurodad colleagues, Eurodad members and other civil society organisations in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the US, academics and think tanks, officials in organisations such as the European Commission and Parliament, United Nations, World Bank and IMF. 
  • Contract & location: Brussels-based* with some flexibility allowing for remote working, permanent and full-time contract. 
  • Attractive benefits package including additional days leave, complementary Hospitalisation, Ambulatory and Dental insurance (DKV), meal, eco, gift and culture-vouchers, working from home allowance, trainings, public transport allowance, travel insurance and contribution to a complementary private pension plan. 

Application instructions 

Apply to the Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer vacancy via Formstack

Please carefully read the attached role profile and the detailed instructions below. We are a small organisation and have designed these instructions to reduce the administrative burden on our team so we can devote more time to our vital work. Therefore, we regret that we will ONLY accept applications that respect these instructions and will exclude applicants who submit general cover letters.
Use the form at the bottom of the page to upload your CV of 2 pages maximum along with a cover letter of 1 page maximum in English. This letter should be properly formatted, clearly and concisely written, set out why you match the job description, and where you saw the vacancy.
Fill in the required data in the form and upload your CV and cover letter in the designated fields. Make sure that the 2 files you are uploading have the following names: Surname_FirstName_CV and Surname_FirstName_CoverLetter; e.g. if Peter Bloggs applied for the job we would expect files with the following names: Bloggs_Peter_CV and Bloggs_Peter_CoverLetter

Eurodad will collect and store your resume and contact details. We process this data for recruitment purposes only. We are storing this data in our Applicant Tracking System, which stores data in the U.S and is fully compliant with EU data protection laws, and we will not share it with anyone else. We would like to keep this data until our open role is filled. We cannot estimate the exact time period, but we will consider this period as coming to an end when a candidate accepts our job offer for the position for which we are considering you. When that period is over, we will either delete your data or inform you that we will keep it in our database for future roles.

Here’s a link to our privacy policy. In this policy, you will find information about our compliance with GDPR (data protection law.) You can find how to send us a request to let you access your data that we have collected, request us to delete your data, correct any inaccuracies or restrict our processing of your data. You have the right to lodge a complaint about the way we handle your data with Belgian Privacy Commission or you can contact Emy De Nardi at edenardi@eurodad.org for more information or concerns.
You should receive a confirmation e-mail after successfully submitting an application. If you don’t receive this e-mail in the 12 hours after submitting your application please contact us at [email protected] so we can check if your application was successfully submitted.
Application deadline: Sunday 28 April 2024, 23h59 CET.
 
Download the role profile here.

About Eurodad 

Eurodad (the European Network on Debt and Development) is a network of 60 civil society organisations (CSOs) from 28 European countries, which works for transformative yet specific changes to global and European policies, institutions, rules and structures to ensure a democratically controlled, environmentally sustainable financial and economic system that works to eradicate poverty and ensure human rights for all.

Eurodad is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status. All employment decisions are made entirely on merit. We strongly encourage persons with disabilities to apply. 

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