Job Announcement for Resident Twinning Advisor (RTA) Assistant for EU-Twinning Project

An RTA Assistant is sought for an EU Twinning Project BA 09 IB FI 01 entitled “Support to Institute for Standardization of Bosnia and Herzegovina” between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain for 16 months.

Starting Date for Employment

Depends on the signature of the Twinning Contract, expected to be in the 3^rd quarter of 2011.

Place of Employment

Sarajevo

Task: To support the Resident Twinning Adviser (RTA) in the implementation of the Twinning Project

Key Duties:

• Assist the RTA in the coordination and liaison with related institutions, the Delegation of the European Union in BiH, partners, stakeholders and experts involved in the proyect.
• Provide relevant information and take part in the elaboration and preparation of documentation of administrative nature; drafting and editing the monthly, quarterly and final project reports and any other relevant documents.
• Develop and maintain close working contacts and relations with Bosnıa and Herzegovina officials involved in the Twinning, contacts at other beneficiary organisations and the Project Leaders.
• Attend meetings, draft and disseminate minutes of meetings.
• To act as interpreter and translator for the Resident Twinning Advisor and short term experts involved on project (on any issues relevant to the project where separate arragements for commercial translation or interpretations have not been made).
• Assist the RTA planning the visits of the Short-term experts (travel, accommodation and work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, specifically in Sarajevo, and other sities, if needed).
• Perform necessary office and office management and general clerical work (e.g. answering phone calls, filing, photocopying, sending and receiving email/faxes, etc.
• General support to the RTA in terms of administrative assistance, office management, record keeping, correspondence.

This list is not exclusive of other tasks.

Skills and Experience Requiered:

• University Degree or equivalent.
• Excellent spoken and written language skills in Bosnian, English and Spanish.
• Knowledge on the Bosnia and Herzegovina Public Administration.
  • Previous experience in Twinning Projects will be an advantage.

• Strong administrative and organizing skills.
• Very good computer skills (MS Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, Internet).
• Knowledge of administrative procedure of EU projects would be and advantage.
• Working experience in any other EU funded project or international organizations in similar functions would be an advantage.
• Technical background in the project area would be an advantage.
• Ability to work in a team and appropiate inter-personal skills and personality.
• Very good communication skills.
• Patiente and flexibility.
• Drafting, editioral and synthesis capacity. Be able to draft concise reports of meetings and summaries of longer papers, including economic or financial anlyses, quickly and accurately.

Conditions

• To be of Bosnia and Herzegovian nationality.
• Not to be part of the Public BiH Administration. Not have or recently (past six months) have had any contractrual relation).
• The salary will be 1.200 Euro monthly.
• Working contract will be signed for 16 months.
• FIIAPP (the Spanish institution responsible of the management of the TW) will be the Contracting Authority

How to Apply

Please send your application in English (motivation letter, European format CV and references) via e-mail to the following address: ivelin.burov@bds-bg.org; gvillegas@fiiapp.org by 31^st August 2011. Please include a telephone contact number in the application.

Short-listed candidates only will be invited to attend an interview in Sarajevo.  It is envisaged that interviews will be held during September 2011.