Policy Officer: Clean Vehicles (Cars and Road Freight)
Transport & Environment
Brussels, Belgium
Transport & Environment, Europe's principal environmental organisation working on transport issues, is currently seeking a highly motivated person to join our Clean Vehicles team. The position requires strategic thinking, political savvy, highly-developed networking, advocacy and communications skills combined with the ability to understand complex technical, economic, industrial and political issues.
We offer the chance to help shape policies with huge implications for the environment and citizens in Europe and across the globe as well as a competitive salary and benefits package.
Candidates should demonstrate the ability to:
- develop and run multi-year campaigns from scratch and with limited supervision
- research complex policy issues and commission studies and reports
- develop and advocate T&E’s position to policy makers, the media, and our international network
- build up a network of NGO, academic, industry and government contacts
- work across two or more policy areas, giving support to colleagues wherever necessary.
Candidates should meet the following criteria:
- Highly motivated, with a minimum of three years relevant professional experience
- Proven ability and professional experience of working with technical, economic, industrial and political issues, preferably in relation to vehicles and/or emissions standards
- Confidence to engage and influence policymakers, industry representatives and other stakeholders at the highest level
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Fluent written and spoken English; must speak at least one other EU language fluently
- Excellent interpersonal and team-working skills, flexibility, and reliability
- Willingness to travel.
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