EU Funded Project

"Strengthening the Turkish Copyright System with a Focus on Fostering Creative and Copyright Based Industries" TR13IBOT01

Offers vacancy for

Position: RTA Assistant (18 Months)

Providing support to the Resident Twinning Adviser (RTA) in project management, office and financial management, organisational and administrative tasks, translation and interpretation (English – Turkish / Turkish – English). The assistant will help arrange logistics for the RTA and fix local arrangements (such as hotel booking, administrative support etc) for the short-term experts.

Main Tasks

Support the RTA and to visit the people responsible for the Project at the different Institutions to:

  1. Provide relevant information and documents
  2. Help arranging contacts, meetings, trainings
  3. Attend meetings, draft and disseminate minutes of meetings
  4. Translate and interpret when needed
  5. Develop and maintain communication with Turkish officials involved in the Twinning, with the Project Leaders of the project and the Short-Term Experts
  6. Assist the RTA identifying, contracting and monitoring translation and interpretation services
  7. Assist the RTA planning the visits of the Short-term experts in Ankara, Istanbul, Antalya and Izmir (accommodation and activity reports)
  8. Perform necessary office management tasks including filing
  9. General support to the RTA in terms of administrative assistance, office management, record keeping, correspondence

Qualifications demanded

  1. University degree
  2. Knowledge of the political, legal and administrative system in Turkey
  3. Excellent command of Turkish and English
  4. Fluent in oral and written English is a must
  5. Strong administrative and organizing skills
  6. Ability to work in a team
  7. Very good computer skills (MS Office, Word, Excel, Power Point, Internet)
  8. Very good communication skills
  9. Patience and flexibility

Assets

  1. Preferably at least 2 years of relevant work experience
  2. Previous experience in Twinning or projects funded by the European Commission will be an advantage
  3. Knowledge of IntellectualProperty Rights in Turkey would be an asset
  4. Driving license is an advantage
  5. Preferably basic knowledge of EU institutions

Remuneration

  • The honoraria will be 2.000 Euro monthly (indirect taxes not included)
  • European Public Law Center (EPLC, the Mandated body for implementing Twinning projects on behalf of the Hellenic Republic) will be the contractor

The position requires: good organisational and communication skills; high sense of responsibility; flexibility regarding working time and travelling; relevant university degrees

Conditions: Availability as of May 2016; Location: Ankara.

Twinning Manual foresees that the chosen assistant is not a civil servant or agent of the beneficiary (past 6 months) nor is on leave from the beneficiary to take up the position of the RTA Assistant.

Short-listed candidates will be invited for an interview between the 9th and the13th of May 2016 at Ankara (exact date and place to be confirmed to each shortlisted participant).

How to Apply

Please send your CV (Europass form) and motivation letter in English via e-mail to all the following email addresses: , , , , and indicatingon the subject of the email the post RTA Assistant. Please include an email and a telephone contact number in the application.

All applications received with no reference of the post and in other language different form English will be automatically rejected.

Deadline for submissions: 3rd of May 2016 at 15:00h (Turkey)

All applications received later than this time will be not taken in consideration.