Policy Officer EVCA

European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association

Brussels, Belgium

Full time permanent
Competitive Salary, based on experience

About the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA)

EVCA is a member-based, non-profit trade association, established in 1983 and is based in Brussels. EVCA represents, promotes and protects the interests of the European private equity and venture capital industry. With over 1,200 members in Europe, EVCA's role includes representing the interests of the industry to regulators, standard setters and policy makers at the European Union institutions.

EVCA develops professional standards; provides industry research; professional development and conferences, and facilitates interaction between its members and key industry participants including institutional investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers and academics.

About the role

We are currently looking for a Policy Officer to reinforce the Legal and Regulatory team, offering information and lobbying services to our members across Europe.

The policy officer will contribute to develop and strengthen an extensive network across the EU institutions, in view of conveying the messages of member companies and their shareholders to all actors involved in the policy making processes on EU level.

As a European association based in Brussels, EVCA offers a dynamic and multicultural working environment with regular contacts and interactions with its members (companies and national associations) and other stakeholders active in the EU (and international) arena.

EVCA offers a job where you tackle projects with a global and analytical mind; a position where administration, project management and communication go together and where you have the opportunity to cooperate with highly qualified staff.

The Policy Officer will:

• Analyse and monitor EU policy developments;
• Conduct legal research and assist in the development of industry positions on relevant topics (position papers, reports and presentations);
• Collect and coordinate members’ positions on very diverse topics (technical, legal);
• Attend and report on meetings and conferences of EU institutions and stakeholders;
• Prepare and join meetings of industry groups;
• Represent the Association in external expert groups;
• Drive other related projects.

The successful candidate will have:

• Hold a degree in Law;
• At least 2 years relevant work experience in a law firm;
• Knowledge of private equity and venture capital industry would be highly beneficial;
• Fluent written and oral English is mandatory (working language of the company). Mastering of other EU languages is an outspoken asset in relations with EU contacts and with member companies and associations;
• Excellent communication qualities especially in writing, editing and drafting;
• Advanced IT user skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook);
• Ability to research, evaluate, negotiate, establish and maintain relationships with members, policy officials and other decision makers;
• Open minded & balanced personality, ready to contribute in a flexible way to a small but dynamic team;
• Strong interpersonal skills with sense of diplomacy, cultural awareness and flexibility;
• Be accurate, efficient, dynamic and organized. Be a team player who can work proactively and independently.

Contact:

Please send relevant CV with covering letter to katia.rabinovitch@evca.eu mentioning Policy officer in the subject line.