European Friends of Armenia is a young and growing NGO which seeks to build bridges between Europe and Armenia. We are now seeking to recruit a TEAM ASSISTANT to replace our current one during her maternity leave.

Your key responsibilities will be:

Managing agenda and contacts, organisation of business trips (booking of tickets and hotels in Armenia and Europe) for the Secretary General and Director
Coordinating meetings and assist the team in organising events and trips
Providing general administrative and accounting support
Coordinating our external services (accounting, social security, IT)
Drafting correspondence in English, French and Russian
Office supply management
Managing our network, especially maintaining contacts and organising our regular services for them

You will be required to have the following skills and qualities:

Excellent organisational skills and ideas of how to optimise our work-flow
Excellent interpersonal skills
Language skills:
- fluent in English, solid French
- knowledge of Armenian or Russian will be considered an asset
Good oral and written communication skills
Highly motivated, energetic and reliable
At least 2 years of assistance experience. MEP's assistance experience is an asset
Solid MS Office knowledge, especially Outlook and Word, but also Excel and Powerpoint
Basic know-how of how the EU works, especially its foreign policy
Knowledge about Eastern Europe and the Caucasus is an asset but not required - the motivation and ability to learn quickly about this highly interesting region and its political context are required
A completed degree in a relevant field
Applicants from countries requiring work permits (Armenia, Russia, etc) have equal opportunities if they already hold a valid work permit for Belgium

We are offering:

A very good working environment in a small, young, efficient and international team
Part time position from 6 to 29 April, full time position from 30 April to 31 August (with possible prolongation) and fair terms under Belgian law
A well organised office open for further optimisation
Competitive salary

Starting date: As soon as possible (29 April 2015 the latest)

Please send your application consisting of a CV, ideally in EuroPass format and with a recent portrait, together with a cover letter in English to jobs@eufoa.org. Deadline for applications is 27 March 2015.







Unpaid student internship opportunity


From time to time, we are in a position to offer a student internship to those who are interested in our activities and would like to be trained in all aspects of NGO work.

Bear in mind that:

the internship has to last 8 weeks minimum
you have to be a student to apply
you have to have your own funding through your university, an EU programme or some other grant
you have to possess a valid work permit for Belgium or be enrolled in a Belgian university (which means that if, for example, you are a Russian/Armenian student in Paris, unfortunately you cannot apply)

If you are interested and fulfill the above-mentioned criteria, please send your CV and cover letter to with a subject line "student internship". Don't forget to indicate your availability. We look forward to hearing from you!