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Are you an experienced professional with a passion for networking and Institutional relations? Can you make policy, scientific and technical topics come alive for discussion with institutions, stakeholders and lay audiences? Are you skilled at building and managing contacts and have the drive to proactively promote the agenda of your organisation? Do you understand the potential that external audiences and stakeholders have to influence an organisation’s reputation? Then this job might be for you.
EFSA are looking for a motivated and talented Institutional Relations Officer who will support EFSA in managing outreach and engagement with the Authority’s key business partners and EU institutions, with a view to enhancing EFSA’s external relations, public image and reputation.
You will work within Units, projects and/or initiatives requiring institutional relations competencies.
Your key responsibilities
- Promote and contribute to EFSA’s activities in the area of institutional relations;
- Consolidate and implement policies in an inter-institutional and multi-stakeholder environment;
- Nurture relationships with institutions and external partners, acting as key contact point and ensuring a constant flow of information and initiatives relevant for EFSA’s work;
- Build enhanced dialogue with institutions and stakeholders that help to generate trust, awareness and interest in EFSA’s work;
- Organise, promote, and execute initiatives in the context of wider and structured projects across multiple-teams (e.g. interaction with European Parliament coordination of the Network of EU Agencies, organisation of multilateral forums, etc.);
- Ensure sound mapping, monitoring and analysis of EFSA’s institutional and stakeholder environment, producing comprehensive communications, notes and reports;
- Contribute to ad hoc departmental or corporate projects, as needed.
Closing date for applications 7 November 2016 at midnight (local time, GMT +1)
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