One year contract as Interim Director

You will act as the Interim Director, under the responsibility of the President and Board of Directors. Your responsibilities will include:

• Management of the association:
  • Team management: encourage dynamic and efficient functioning of the small team
    through clear organisation of tasks, monitoring of progress and priority setting.
  • Financial management: financial and administrative management including
    accountancy management, relations with auditors and fund-raising activities.
  • Coordination of governance structures: organisation of meetings of the Board of
    Directors and General assembly.
• Network coordination and development: interact with Euromontana members inside the network and with other organisations outside the network, with a view to increase the network’s visibility and develop membership base, provide services to members upon request and manage fee payments.
• Advocacy and representation of mountain interests: represent directly Euromontana and support elected members of the Board of Directors in their different representational duties, in different meetings and expert groups (examples: Civil Dialogue Groups, ENRD, RUMRA & Smart Villages Intergroup…). Follow-up of regulatory and policy developments related to major European policies of interest for sustainable mountain development, in coherence with priorities set by the Board of directors. Steer consultative processes to elaborate commonly agreed position papers. Coordinate working or focus groups. Promote Euromontana’s position in all relevant fora and consultations.
• Strategic and financial management of European projects in which the association is engaged, monitor and support the work of the project manager of the on-going projects; contribute to the strategic development of project ideas and applications under the programmes of interest to Euromontana, inter alia INTERREG, HORIZON Europe, LIFE, DG REGIO.
• Contribution to on-going studies, both directed by Euromontana and otherwise.
• Organisation of events: organise Euromontana events and project events such as European Mountain Conventions and/or project conferences and various seminars and working sessions.

Profile

You have a tertiary education degree (Masters level, minimum 5 years), in domains matching your future responsibilities (such as in agriculture, food, forestry, rural development, innovation or mountain development, EU policies), with previous relevant experience of 5 to 10 years. Experience should be related to either a sector that is relevant to mountain development, such as territorial development policy, lobbying and advocacy, EU project development or network coordination at national level or European level. A thorough understanding of European policy making will be necessary (including CAP and Cohesion Policy).

You have an excellent professional command of both French and English, the two working languages of Euromontana both of which you will have to use in your daily communication without support from the team. You have a very good command of Microsoft office tools (including the manipulation of calculation tools such as Excel).

Dynamic, enthusiastic and motivated, you will know how to get fully involved in your function of leader, face a heavy workload and face unexpected challenges. You have a strong sense of prioritization and can effectively organize your own time taking into account interaction with other staff members and members of the network.

You can easily appropriate the values of your organisation to carry them out politically, consolidating your messages with scientific arguments. Open-minded, you have excellent relational skills and can interact in a positive way with counterparts from different cultures and backgrounds, on complex political subjects. You have excellent written and oral communication, EU project development/management, analysis, synthesis and negotiation skills.

Comfortable in a small organization (less than 5 persons), you are not afraid of multitasking and are solutions-oriented.

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