About Optimistic Cash
Optimistic Cash is a number one worldwide new economic system assume tank and campaigning organisation re-imagining our cash, banking, and the economic system for the wellbeing of individuals, communities and the planet. We’re a part of a rising and collective drive for financial techniques change. Our mission is to reform cash and banking to construct a truthful, democratic and sustainable economic system.
We produce ground-breaking analysis and coverage proposals, inform the general public and politicians, recurrently seem within the media, and mobilise the general public behind people-powered campaigns. We imagine in radical techniques change and work to realize lasting change on a number of fronts concurrently: change in public understanding, the general public and media debate, and on the coverage and tutorial degree. We work throughout three key areas: democratising cash and banking, a inexperienced and truthful European Central Financial institution (ECB), and financing the simply transition of properties throughout Europe.
We’re dedicated to cultivating a tradition of help, respect, open communication, and collaboration that encourages creativity and innovation. We foster an atmosphere the place numerous views are valued and the place work preparations are tailor-made to accommodate particular person wants, guaranteeing each workforce member can contribute their finest work.
About The Position
Optimistic Cash has developed into a world organisation, having begun within the UK in 2010, earlier than establishing places of work within the EU in 2018, and the US in 2021. In just some years, Optimistic Cash Europe has produced quite a few high-impact analysis items that have been cited by the ECB and Nationwide Central Banks. This function is an thrilling alternative to ship an bold analysis agenda with a deal with the function of the ECB for delivering a good, democratic and sustainable economic system. You’ll produce in-house analysis whereas additionally managing analysis initiatives with exterior companions and work intently with the coverage workforce to supply coverage briefings and supply the workforce with correct details and proof, ensuring our marketing campaign messaging and proposals are rooted in rigorous evaluation. This function stories to the Head of Analysis.
About You
That is an thrilling alternative for a wonderful communicator, with a robust monitor report of success as a analysis assistant, researcher, economist, or coverage officer. You’re obsessed with new financial considering, have sturdy quantitative and analytical abilities and in a position to rapidly soak up, organise, and concisely convey new details about typically advanced points. You share our dedication to an inclusive and numerous workforce, and our tradition of being open-minded, bold, respectful and self-aware.
Accountabilities
Technique
- Supporting the event and implementation of Optimistic Cash’s analysis programme technique
Supply
- Work with the Head of Analysis to ship Optimistic Cash Europe’s analysis programme technique accompanied by medium-term analysis agenda
- Be accountable for the administration and supply of sure analysis initiatives from begin to end, together with with exterior consultants or companions
- Write analysis stories and briefings, weblog posts on a spread of cash and banking reform subjects, in addition to different analysis outputs
- Assist Optimistic Cash Europe’s different programmes with offering research-based proof and fast evaluation of present occasions
- Monitor developments in EU establishments, banking business and in Eurozone financial coverage and key Eurozone statistics
- Make sure that the Optimistic Cash’s proposals stay related to exterior adjustments within the economic system, coverage, regulation, expertise, and politics
Individuals
- Collaborate with different members of the workforce to jot down funding proposals and stories when required
- Proactively help others to excel of their roles
Exterior
- Symbolize Optimistic Cash Europe externally – to a spread of various audiences and stakeholders, together with to our supporter and civil society community and inside coverage and tutorial communities
- Interact exterior researchers in our analysis agenda (together with lecturers, central bankers, regulators and professionals throughout the monetary sector)
Tradition
- Talk each internally and externally with self-awareness, respect and transparency
- Implement methods and practices to dismantle oppression and embed anti-oppression considering in our communications
- Position mannequin our values and ideas of labor throughout the organisation and externally
- Proactively help others to excel of their roles
- Take private duty to your work, setting an instance to workforce members
Particular person Specification
Expertise & Expertise
- Wonderful written and verbal communicator, able to writing analysis papers, coverage stories, op-eds and different communications for a variety of professional and non-expert audiences
- Monitor report of success as a analysis assistant, researcher, economist, or coverage officer
- A Masters Diploma in social sciences with deal with economics, finance and banking, environmental research, socio-economics
- Robust quantitative and analytical abilities
- Willingness and skill to supply commentary on coverage developments, typically below tight deadlines
- Some data of present Eurozone financial coverage and political developments
- Excessive diploma of initiative and a focus to element
- Skill to handle initiatives and meet deadlines
- Wonderful interpersonal and relationship-building abilities to work with exterior researchers
- Proficiency in German, Dutch, or a language from a area underrepresented in European financial and monetary discourse is a plus
Values & Behaviours
- Enthusiastic about our mission of reforming cash and banking to construct a good, democratic and sustainable economic system;
- An issue solver, prepared to dive into unsure or advanced new areas of labor;
- Skill to work autonomously, successfully and effectively;
- A dedication to continued studying on anti-oppression ideas;
- Excessive degree of self-awareness. Expert in reflecting by yourself behaviours and practices and dealing to vary them the place essential;
- Dedication to demonstrating our values and ideas of labor in your work.
We invite anybody who’s to use, no matter background, expertise, or credentials. We goal to pick candidates primarily based on efficiency in our choice course of and actively attempt to minimise the affect of our biases. There is no such thing as a good candidate, so for those who can image your self thriving on this function, we’d like to obtain an utility from you.
Phrases and Circumstances
Contract: The function is for an indeterminate contract (Belgian “contrat à durée indéterminée”) with a 6-month analysis interval.
Wage: €46,500 gross annual wage (paid in 12.92 salaries), (professional rata if working lower than full time hours) + pension scheme of 4.5% of gross annual wage. Computerized indexation of gross wage to account for inflation.
Advantages (professional rata if working lower than full time hours): Optimistic Cash is dedicated to growing our staff, and being a supportive, versatile and compassionate employer. We provide a spread of advantages to EU workers together with:
- 5 additional authorized holidays on high of the 20 statutory holidays for the primary yr of employment
- Meal vouchers, which will be spent in supermarkets & most eating places, of a most €147 month-to-month
- Transportation value of €49/month
- Work at home allowance of €60/month
- Distant work from overseas as much as 3 months per yr
Location: Versatile between working in our Brussels workplace (Rue Ducale 67, 1000, Brussels) and dealing from residence in Belgium.
Hours: Half time (30.4 hours) or Full time (38 hours). Our full-time week will be labored throughout 4 days. We are going to think about versatile working requests.
Hiring Course of:
- Please full the appliance kind right here by February fifteenth at 9AM CET
- Chosen candidates might be invited to do a web based written evaluation earlier than the tip of February
- Chosen candidates might be invited to 2 rounds of interviews (one on-line and one ideally in particular person) originally of March
Begin date: April 1st however we will be versatile for the best candidate
Optimistic Cash is dedicated to offering equal employment alternatives to all certified candidates and don’t discriminate on the premise of race, color, ethnicity, faith, intercourse, gender, gender id and/or expression, sexual orientation, measurement, nationwide origin, incapacity, age, marital standing, being pregnant, parental standing, or genetic data. We’re dedicated to hiring and retaining a various, culturally competent workers in any respect ranges of the organisation. We strongly encourage individuals of the worldwide majority, particularly Black and Asian of us, LGBTQIA+ people, individuals dwelling with disabilities, ladies, non-binary people, and other people of varied socioeconomic backgrounds to use for this place.
We’re dedicated to creating our hiring course of as accessible as potential. To request a particular association, please e-mail Flavia at flavia.derasmo@positivemoney.org.
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