Begin date: April 2024 or later
Length: 24 months (extension meant)
Deadline for software: 15 January 2024
Location: Freiburg, Germany
Do you wish to contribute to creating our cities higher locations to dwell?
ICLEI – Native Governments for Sustainability is a worldwide community working with greater than 2500 native and regional governments dedicated to sustainable city improvement. Lively in 125+ international locations, we affect sustainability coverage and drive native motion for low emission, nature-based, equitable, resilient and round improvement.
ICLEI‘s European Secretariat is predicated in Freiburg (Germany), with specialised places of work in Brussels and Berlin. ICLEI Europe has greater than 140 proficient employees from throughout Europe and past, protecting a broad number of skilled disciplines and experience.
Working with us, you’ll have alternatives to:
- Deepen your understanding of how cities design and implement sustainability and local weather neutrality insurance policies, what sort of challenges they face and the way greatest to help them
- Work with main city researchers, politicians and practitioners on European innovation initiatives, to supply options for immediately’s city challenges
- Contribute to European and worldwide processes that affect city insurance policies, such because the EU Public Procurement Framework, Inexperienced Deal, the EU Missions, the New European Bauhaus, the New City Agenda, the UN SDGs, and others
- Be a part of an internationally recognised organisation that conjures up, helps and critically evaluates new traits in (co-)creating sustainable, local weather impartial and resilient cities
- Develop professionally in a versatile, family-friendly work setting with alternatives for private improvement, European journey, {and professional} cultural trade
We’re in search of a brand new colleague to hitch our Sustainable and Innovation Procurement crew with the next expertise, abilities and character:
- A level in a related topic equivalent to public procurement, legislation, economics, environmental sciences, worldwide improvement or different acceptable qualification;
- A minimal of 5 years related work expertise. For instance, you might have labored within the procurement division of a neighborhood authority, supported the procurement of products, works and providers or labored for an organisation that helps public authorities with procurement;
- A great understanding of the general public procurement course of, and understanding of how procurement operates in public organisations;
- Expertise of working in or managing initiatives;
- Means to be properly organised, prioritise duties and produce good high quality work;
- An excellent command of English (studying, writing and talking);
- Glorious verbal and written communication abilities, e.g. drafting studies, newsletters and delivering shows;
- Assured person of all Microsoft Workplace functions.
Fascinating:
- Direct expertise in operating public procurement procedures;
- Expertise working for, or with, a neighborhood authorities or public authority;
- Expertise of engaged on European funded initiatives or service contracts;
- Expertise in offering advisory providers to construct capacities on sustainable and innovation procurement
- Expertise of delivering and designing coaching materials;
- Data of the legislative setting by which public procurement operates inside the EU.
Your place will embody the next important duties:
- Lead on European initiatives that help cities eager to develop their sustainable or innovation procurement practices;
- Robust function within the strategic and conceptual improvement of the sustainable and innovation procurement matter;
- Help the coverage and advocacy processes of ICLEI that advance sustainable and innovation procurement on the European and worldwide stage;
- Professional-actively develop and strengthen strategic partnerships with related worldwide establishments and organisations on the subjects of sustainable and innovation procurement at a European and worldwide stage;
- Present advisory help to construct capacities on sustainable and innovation procurement to native authorities and public authorities
- Develop and ship workshops or coaching on sustainable and innovation procurement to public procurers;
- Design and facilitate digital, hybrid and in-person workshops, communities of observe and conferences that encourage individuals to take part, study and community;
- Undertake analysis and develop publications focused at public procurers and coverage makers, together with studies, steering, coverage briefs and case research;
- Determine funding alternatives and write venture proposals;
- Signify ICLEI at occasions and undertake shows.
We give you the next circumstances:
- Preliminary 24 months contract with excessive potential for extension
- Gross wage in response to the Senior Professional place in ICLEI’s wage grid (indicative: EUR 60.768 – 63.300 every year)
- Place of business: Freiburg/Germany
- 40h working week with versatile working time and the chance to work as much as 50% distant
- 6 weeks of paid depart every year
- Working language is English
- Occasional journey inside Europe is foreseen
Please notice that candidates should – resulting from authorized causes – maintain EU citizenship or legitimate EU residence allow and a sound German work allow. Functions not assembly these circumstances can sadly not be thought of.
Deadline for software: 15 January 2024. Please apply in writing, together with a CV and letter of motivation to: jobs.europe@iclei.org
Remember that functions are reviewed repeatedly upon arrival; subsequently, software as quickly as doable is advisable. For extra details about ICLEI go to:
ICLEI Europe’s Equal Alternative and Employment Coverage
ICLEI Europe’s hiring coverage is geared to make sure that the organisation hires staff with out regard to their race, color, faith, nationwide origin, citizenship, age, intercourse, marital standing, socio-economic background or sexual orientation. ICLEI’s coverage is that candidates for employment and profession development are thought of solely primarily based on their {qualifications} and competencies.