Administrative and Communication Assistant CECIMO

Starting date: as soon as possible

The European Association of the Machine Tool Industries is looking for a new member of staff to join its team based in Brussels.

Administrative and Communication Assistant

Job description:

As CECIMO is serious about explaining its own issues and maintaining its high reputation, we invest in our communication capabilities and elevate the importance of this role. We have to identify ourselves more clearly and effectively to multiple audiences and signal our credibility and reliability. Encouraging members to respond to draft position papers and launching lobbying campaigns requires highly-organized communication.

Ensuring that members and stakeholders receive relevant information from the CECIMO staff in a timely and user-friendly format will be your role. You need to communicate CECIMO’s activities and project the CECIMO image and what we represent. You will contribute to the day-to-day running of CECIMO in a professional manner.

The Administrative and Communication Assistant will provide secretarial and administrative assistance to the staff including the Director General of CECIMO with a strong focus on communication strategy and tools:

• Support CECIMO staff to communicate effectively to CECIMO Members and external EU stakeholders: update of website, designing of print media, multi-media presentations, etc.

• Compilation and presentation of statistical, economic data.

• In charge of CECIMO marketing and communication tools: cope with the digital evolution and social media.

• Organization and coordination of conferences and events.

• Conduct research work, improve information sharing

• Daily administrative business: correspondence, appointments, travel arrangements, …

Qualifications and experience:

• Experience in secretarial and/or administrative support work, preferably in an international organization.

• Experience in communication and marketing

• Proficiency in graphics software (photoshop; QuarkXpress; indesign…)

• Capable of creating designs and layouts for brochures, presentations, email communications, etc.

• Excellent command of English and French or Dutch, knowledge of other languages would be an asset

• Excellent written and multi-media communication skills.

• Analytical skills and the ability to work easily with figures

The Administrative and Communication Assistant will:

• Collaborate harmoniously within a small and multicultural team of 6 people

• Work autonomously, to take initiatives, to be pro-active and creative.

• Work in an organized and methodical way, being able to prioritize and to pay attention to detail and accuracy.

• Manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously, even under pressure

• Act with discretion and diplomacy

• Work with flexibility and reliability.

• Be customer oriented

We offer:

A motivating, multilingual and multicultural working environment. An opportunity of gaining broad experience within an innovative industrial sector and a multinational association.

Please send your cover letter and CV by email to information@cecimo.eu no later than 10th October 2011. While we appreciate all responses to our request for applications, please understand that we will only contact short-listed candidates.