Project Manager

Project Manager

Part-time

Coppieters Foundation

Brussels, Belgium

The Coppieters Foundation is looking for a new Part Time (20/25 hours a week) Project Manager for its Brussels office for a period of 1 year (renewable).

The Project Manager will assist in the daily management of European projects in the field of cultural and linguistic diversity, collective and minority rights, multi-level governance, decentralisation, state and constitutional reform, statehood processes, self-determination, migration, social justice and peace studies.

This position is an opportunity to join an organisation where every person counts and to contribute to European public policy issues from a diversity perspective.

The main responsibility will be:

• Manage the annual call for projects, prepare project cooperation agreements and liaise and maintain regular contact with the project partners and other key stakeholders throughout the project cycle;
• Assist with the development and implementation of the yearly work programme and ensure timely preparation of progress updates and reports;
• Help with the organisation, preparation and logistics of project events (this includes – but is not limited to – booking venues, coordinating participants’ travel and accommodation, preparing outreach and registration lists of participants, post-event tasks);
• Produce documents for events, including programs, background notes, leaflets, press kits and any other required documents;
• Coordinate researchers, compile studies into policy papers or research publications, conduct initial quality check, and liaise with suppliers (translators, copy-editors, proof-readers, graphic designers and printers) to ensure publication is on time and budget.

Communications and outreach:

• Regularly updating the website and social media (Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Academia, Instagram) with project-related news;
• Producing and disseminating the monthly electronic newsletter;
• Distribute studies to relevant contacts and subscribers;
• Design and script audio-visual content by turning key takeaway messages from publications into accessible and impactful animated videos;
• Assist in the development and implementation of a communications strategy.

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