Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Responding to EU call for tenders targeting the support to Managing Authorities, Central or Regional bodies
• Facilitating the project generation process providing technical support to potential project applicants, most probably on the following programmes: Territorial Cooperation Objective, ENI CBC, Horizon 2020, Health, Cosme, Creative Europe;
• Analysing potential EU funding opportunities targeted to clients’ needs;
• Providing overall project management support, including: project administrative and financial tasks, overall coordination, support in communication outputs planning, report writing and any task related to the implementation of project cycle management.

Required qualifications:

• University degree in public administration, business or economics, political or natural science or other related fields;
• 4-5 years of post-graduate working experience;
• Consolidated experience in technical support of EU programmes and projects; or
• Practice in programme or project management and the development and co-ordination of networks and multinational projects (administrative management and financial accountancy);
• Fluency in spoken and written English and in one other mayor EU language (French preferably); advanced knowledge of written and spoken Italian is a must;
• Project cycle management skills.

Further desirable qualifications:

• Working knowledge of an additional European language or Arab;
• Experience in website management;
• Experience in and/or ambition to work in an international environment with different administrative traditions;
• Creativity and problem-solving orientation, interest in new learning experiences;
• Communication and facilitation skills, strategic thinking, open and positive minded team worker.
• Availability to travel intensively
• Capacity to work often under constraining deadlines