Part Time Trade Advisor UKTI Team

The Trade & Investment team of the British Embassy, Brussels, part of UK Trade and Investment (www.ukti.gov.uk), is recruiting a temporary part-time locally engaged Trade Advisor. 

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is the United Kingdom government’s international trade promotion and business development agency. 

In 2012/13, the Benelux team was part of a worldwide effort to support businesses and this generated £49.6bn in additional sales with UKTI help and UKTI helped land investment projects which brought with them over 60,000 jobs.

Main Role

As part of a small UKTI team you will provide advice and support to UK companies wishing to develop business in Belgium by:

• Support the organisation of the Benelux market day of the International Festival for Business in Liverpool on 19 June 2014;
• Conduct market research to identify and promote business opportunities in Belgium for UK companies;
• Provide hands-on advice to UK companies and answer their enquiries;
• Assisting in the development and delivery of commercial events promoting business such as seminars, trade visits and sector promotion events;
• Provide administrative and office support to the trade team.

We offer an interesting, responsible and challenging job in an open modern management culture with a friendly team, excellent working environment, and attractive learning and development opportunities.

Skills RequiredEssential

• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills;
• Flexibility, a pro-active attitude and the ability to work in a team;
• Ability to solve problems and take responsibility for your own work;
• Effective time management: able to handle the multiple priorities of the role within the agreed deadline;
• Good IT skills (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook);
• Fluent written and spoken English, working level knowledge of French and/or Dutch.

Desired

• Experience in organising events;
• Experience of dealing with business in an international context;
• Strong on-line research skills.

This position will be filled on a fixed term contract for 6 months starting in April 2014 subject to security clearance. The hours of work are 29 hours per week but the actual working pattern will be agreed with the successful candidate in line with operational needs. 

Gross monthly salary: € 1828.90 

Applications with a full CV and cover letter in English should be sent to the Recruitment Officer, Corporate Services Benelux British Embassy, Avenue d’Auderghem 10 B- 1040 Brussels or brussels.recruitment@fco.gov.uk by Monday 24 March 2014. If applying by email, you should include your full name in the message title and your email and attachments must not exceed 300kB in size. 

We expect to hold interviews shortly after the closing date with a view to the successful applicant starting work in April 2014, subject to vetting, references and administrative processes. 

Please note that, due to the large volume of applications we receive, only those applicants called for interview will be contacted.