Director Normal of the European Branded Clothes Alliance (EBCA) at EBCA

Location: Brussels, Belgium

Kind of Contract: Everlasting

Reporting to: EBCA Board of Administrators (Govt Committee)

About EBCA

The European Branded Clothes Alliance, EBCA, is a coalition of main retail clothes model corporations that symbolize over 70 manufacturers which straight make use of greater than 300,000 Europeans. 

Established in 2007, the Alliance is the collective voice for retail textile and attire manufacturers in Europe. EBCA’s main focus is to make sure a optimistic commerce agenda and a aggressive enterprise setting with a powerful deal with sustainability all through our members’ world worth chains. 

Drawing upon a balanced and consultant membership that’s current throughout EU Member States, the Alliance serves as a trusted companion for EU policymakers and a key trade stakeholder within the growth of EU coverage and regulation that impacts upon the attire and footwear sector.

As EBCA is getting into into an thrilling new stage by establishing itself as an trade affiliation, with its personal secretariat and expanded membership, it’s searching for an skilled, formidable and proactive candidate to fill the place of Director Normal and lead our affiliation.

The profitable candidate ought to improve EBCA’s visibility amongst EU decision-makers and affect the legislative framework that impacts the textile trade. Ideally, he/she/they’re keen about EU coverage and public affairs, enjoys challenges and pursues an action-oriented strategy.

Tasks

• Securing the graceful transition of EBCA from its present alliance construction right into a fully-fledged trade affiliation.
• Delivering on the imaginative and prescient and mission of the trade affiliation – organising and managing EBCA in accordance with the rules set out by the Board of Administrators (Govt Committee).
• Establishing and sustaining good contacts with EU establishments, EU coverage makers, non-governmental and companion organisations.
• Recruiting and retaining membership – constructing and sustaining shut contacts with and constructive collaboration amongst members, and speaking all related info to the members of EBCA.
• Devising and drafting positions, publications, and supplies – and successfully speaking these to related audiences. 
• Main the exterior illustration of EBCA, together with attending exterior conferences, presenting agreed positions, and dealing with exterior organisations.
• Managing Board conferences, together with getting ready papers, main the conferences, and delivering actions.
• Guaranteeing compliance and a wholesome monetary place of the secretariat.
• Workforce administration shifting ahead – increasing and growing the longer term commerce affiliation workforce according to members’ ambitions and within the context of a busy and bold legislative setting. 

Data and Expertise

• EU professional and lobbyist – 10-15 years’ work expertise in advocacy-related positions related to the attire sector or inside the trade is a plus.
• Expertise in main tasks and groups inside or with trade platforms
• Expertise of delivering tasks to strict standards and timescales.
• Glorious communications and management expertise to handle working relationships with exterior companions and stakeholders.
• Initiative-taker and competent supervisor to handle the affiliation on sound enterprise founding.
• Good public speaker, in a position to have interaction and affect the viewers.
• Proficient in English – writing and talking (proficient information of extra languages are a plus).
• Potential to analyse info and cope with a variety of stakeholders.
• A ardour for work in sustainability, shoppers, world trade-related sectors.

What would this place carry to the profitable candidate? 

• As soon as in a lifetime likelihood to co-create EU laws for a sector that’s rapidly changing into regulated but prepared to supply constructive dialogue and sound options for the sustainability, commerce and digital coverage challenges of right this moment and tomorrow.
• The chance to construct an affiliation in a sector rapidly changing into regulated, to ascertain a well-functioning workforce and govern a dedicated membership.  
• Numerous and difficult bundle of tasks, with EU and nationwide focus.

Please apply via this hyperlink: https://h25rpw47kct.typeform.com/to/yhPhX3gp

In the event you consider you’ve gotten what it takes, we encourage you to use even when you don’t meet all the necessities. Please observe that there’s a rolling deadline so we might advise making use of as early as potential. 

We welcome people from numerous backgrounds, whether or not by advantage of race, ethnicity, gender identification, sexual orientation, socioeconomic standing, ideology, faith, or different traits reflecting vital social classes or fractures to assist us construct a various EBCA workforce. 

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