Call for IUSY Political Officer

IUSY is looking for a Political Officer to its Secretariat. As Political Officer of IUSY you are engaged in all our activities and will get a very broad and multicultural management experience. You will also get a unique chance for a couple of years to study the world from a political and social perspective, to travel around the world and meet new friends.

IUSY Secretariat is a small team consisting of the Secretary General who leads the work and two Political Officers. The job is full time, including frequent travel and work during weekends. The Secretariat is located in Vienna, Austria and it is required that you are ready to move and live here. We hope that you are ready to start working in September 2010.

Profile of IUSY Political Officer

- Have interest in human rights, democracy building and international solidarity.

- Have several years of experience of work/activism within a youth organization

- Be familiar with IUSY and be an active member of a IUSY member organization

- Share the values and ideas of IUSY

- Language skills: Be able to communicate fluently in written and spoken English; French and/or Spanish are essential

- Capacity to organize conferences, run programmes, campaigns, seminars, trainings etcetera

- Management skills, capacity to carry out financial and administrative tasks, applying for funding

- Be communicative and capacity to work in a team as well as individually and in the multicultural ambiance of IUSY

- IT skills: documents, presentation programs and websites, bookkeeping

- Excellent attention to details and highly organised; and ability to meet deadlines

- Be ready to be flexible in terms of working hours and able to work under time pressure.

Brief Job Description for IUSY Political Officer

1. Activities

In cooperation with the Secretary General and the rest of the Secretariat, the PO assists in the management, preparation and running of seminars, statutory meetings and other political initiatives set out by IUSY. PO is responsible for the financial issues in all attended IUSY activities.

2. Finances

PO is responsible for all bookkeeping and for managing membership fees. PO is also responsible, in cooperation with the secretary General, for all communication with the different foundations and institutions that are supporting IUSY

3. Daily tasks

In addition to the previous mentioned tasks, the PO assist in the daily running of the secretariat, such as answering mails and phones, updating the website and whatever the Secretary General needs in the running of the office.

About IUSY

IUSY is a global NGO made up of about 150 socialist, social democratic and labour youth organisations from over 100 countries all over the world. IUSY is the world’s biggest youth organization. IUSY has consultative status within the UN. IUSY is the political youth organization to the SI, Socialist International.

IUSY does activities all over the world; Conferences, Meetings, Seminars, Workshops, Trainings, Study Visits and Festivals. As political youth movement we are a part of the global civil society. We believe in a world based on equality, sustainability and solidarity. We want young people to be able to shape their own future; this is not the situation today. Therefore the struggle for democracy and human rights comes first for us!

Applications should be sent in to IUSY Secretary General by latest Monday 26^th of July 2010.

The application should include the following documents:

- Curriculum Vitae

- Motivation Letter

- 2 reference details

All candidates will be informed of the results.

Contact

Johan Hassel, IUSY Secretary General

johan@iusy.info

+ 43 699 171 208 30

Call for IUSY Political Officer