QCEA seeks Programme Assistants
Usual duration: 1 year Location: Brussels
QCEA regularly seeks people to serve in year-long posts as Programme Assistants in its office in Brussels. This is an opportunity to:
- work on one of QCEA’s programme areas: human rights, economic justice and peace-building
- to assist in the day to day tasks of QCEA and Quaker House
- to gain work experience in an international Quaker setting
- to gain experience living in a foreign country and in the European capital
You need to have an understanding of and interest in European institutions; commitment to the advancement of Quaker concerns at the European level; sympathy with the Quaker approach; willingness to undertake routine and domestic tasks; good working knowledge of English. A reasonable knowledge of French or Dutch will be helpful though not essential. Knowledge of other European languages would be very welcome.
Accommodation and living allowance provided.
Closing date for applications for the current vacancies: 28 May 2012
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QCEA has employed Programme Assistants since its early years. There have been well over 60 Programme Assistants since 1979. In 2009 – on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of QCEA – a review of the contribution of Programme Assistants to QCEA and of the contribution of QCEA to their lives was published. Click here to download this publication.
