Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) is recruiting an
Intern for the position of Tour Assistant
for its ENERGY UNION climate project
Based in Brussels but mostly travelling abroad during the tour.
For four months, full time. Start date: 22nd June 2009
This is a unique opportunity to work alongside our Climate and Energy team to help deliver a successful pan-European climate project: ENERGY UNION.
We are looking for an energetic and enthusiastic person to join the FoEE team on a short term basis. The position is based in Brussels, full time, and runs from late June until late October 2009. The successful candidate will work at the beginning and end of the contract from the FoEE office, and will travel long periods during the tour (July to September) to Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary.
Climate change can be stopped. ENERGY UNION rejects doomsday scenarios and reclaims a positive vision of the future.
Intelligent Energy is the solution. Intelligent lifestyles, energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies will help launch humanity into the bright, independent, solar age, leaving behind the fossil fuel dependent era. We want young people to realise that the move to Intelligent Energy is possible and the power to achieve it is vested in us all. We want them to act. Now.
The climate-friendly ENERGY UNION Tour comprises 24 tour stops in 12 European countries over two years - eight tour stops in 2009 - with a live audio-visual show, and an interactive exhibition travelling in a specially-commissioned railway wagon rather than by road. FoE Europe and local/national FoE groups are the environmental partners for the tour.
The ENERGY UNION has three tools to promote Intelligent Energy for young people between 16 and 30:
- COLDCUT (British musicians, pioneers of audio-visual art, and the creators of the Ninja Tune label) will produce a special live audio-visual show
- an interactive exhibition with an interactive dancefloor
- political debates with decision makers and young people.
In Summer 2009 the tour will visit Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. The tour supports FoEE’s demand for steep annual cuts in greenhouse gas emissions across Europe with no offsetting. More information at http://energyunion.eu
FoE Europe campaigns for sustainable and just societies and for the protection of the environment. It unites more than 31 national organisations with thousands of local groups and is part of the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International.
The Job
Purpose of role
The tour assistant will work under the supervision of the project coordinator of Friends of the Earth Europe with local Friends of the Earth groups, Coldcut, and other Energy Union partners to accompany the tour in 2009 in Germany, Austria, Hungary and Slovakia. The tour assistant will help implement the project, especially the realisation of the political debates and help with the local campaign work during the exhibition and shows. The tour assistant will be the contact for FoE groups, and ensure a good flow of information between local FoE groups, the Friends of the Earth Europe projector coordinator in Brussels and Energy Union partners.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Preparation of tour: liaising with Energy Union partners and local FoE groups on tasks such as gathering relevant logistical information; giving information to groups, assisting groups in volunteer recruitment and training, and preparation of the political forum, ensuring materials arrive at venues on time
- Support the planning, organisation and delivery of events
- On tour management: helping local FoE groups to set up displays and to implement political forums and collect signatures at each event; supervising volunteers at each event and solving any problems that arise
- Ensure a good collaboration between FoE groups and Energy Union partners during the tour and report back to the FoEE project coordinator
- Helping to realise the project's ‘green’aims
- Managing FoEE’s and Energy Union's visual presence on the tour
- Website management (before and during the tour)
- Giving regular feedback to the project coordinator in the FoEE office and the Energy Union's project steering group
- Liaising with the project coordinator in FoE Europe office, the overall tour project manager, the project steering group and other project partners
- Budget management under supervision of the project manager
- Assisting with the construction of promotion tools on site (political forum, exhibition, audio-visual show)
- After-tour: evaluation of the tour 2009 and giving recommendations for 2010 (reccommending best practice)
- Overseeing that groups are managing their data entry and providing assistance (post-tour)
Essential requirements
- Project management experience, preferably working internationally
- Event management experience, preferably working on large-scale public events
- Demonstrable organisational and co-ordination skills
- Strong logistical, problem solving skills and time management skills
- Good networking and communications skills, willingness to liaise with local groups
- Fluency in English
- Web skills
- Team player and self motivated
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Strong sense of responsibility
- Preferably have experience working with volunteers and coordinating stalls and public events
- Good at trouble shooting
- Able to motivate and inspire people
- Able to work in a team and independently with people with different cultural background
- Able to work in the evening and weekends abroad. Able to travel within Europe by train
- Experience of meeting described needs, preferably in a network organisation
- Commitment to the values, vision and mission of Friends of the Earth
- Flexibility, ability to improvise and multi-tasking skills
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Ability to work to deadlines and prioritise workloads
- Educated to degree standard
- Sense of humour and creativity
Desirable
- Fluency in a second European language next to English – preferable German, Hungarian or Slovakian
- Familiarity with the work of Friends of the Earth Europe
- Experience working with artists and coordinating a European tour
- Knowledge of climate change topics
- Proficiency in Photoshop and CMS
- Experience of managing an organisation’s identity including an understanding of the media, branding and websites
We can offer an intern fee of 800 euro per month plus travel and subsistence costs during the tour.
Internship conditions according to Belgian legislation.
5 days/week, 38 hour working week, compensation days for weekends/public holidays worked
Location: Friends of the Earth Europe Office in Brussels at the beginning and end of the contract. During the tour in Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary (July to September).
If you are interested in applying for the position of the tour assistant for the Energy Union please send your CV and a cover letter to energyunion.tour@foeeurope.org by midnight on 13 May 2009. Your letter of motivation should highlight how your skills and experience are well-suited to the exact requirements of this position. Short-listed candidates will be contacted before 16 May.
Interviews will likely take place on 20 May.
Thank you for the interest you have shown in working with Friends of the Earth Europe.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Climate Team, Friends of the Earth Europe.
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