PHASE Liaison Officer – EuroHealthNet

The role of the PHASE Liaison Officer will be to monitor EU policies, activities and programmes, to prepare policy précis and reports, to successfully liaise with key stakeholders and support practical activities, and to identify opportunities for advocacy.

This will include analysing the relevant components of the EU work programme, the EU Semester and helping to ensure the network is well positioned to support the Social Change and Innovation (EaSI) and Health for Growth programmes amongst others.

Responsibilities

• Policy monitoring: using our subscriptions to news and information services, you will maintain an online dossier of information for our members and office about EU policy and programme developments.
• Liaison: in cooperation with colleagues, you will build, report and maintain links with key people at national-level institutions and in the EC (EMPL, SANTE, CONNECT, EAC), EP and Council Presidencies, plus contact with CoR and EESC and other EU agencies e.g. Eurofound.
• Intelligence gathering: you will contribute to the team’s engagement with relevant stakeholders e.g. EU Health Policy Forum and EU Poverty Platform members, and network to find out in the fastest possible way what is happening in our fields.
• Identifying opportunities: you will seek out and help us to anticipate opportunities for advocacy, policy and programme development of the network, including opportunities to contribute to policy consultations and informing legislation development.
• Events and documents: as part of a team, you will help organise country visits and will take an active role in drafting policy précis, blogs, and responses to consultations.
• Contributing to our business plan: as part of a team, you will actively work on communications, fundraising, membership recruitment, capacity building and knowledge development, administration and events organisation.

Profile

Essential

• You are educated to at least a Bachelor’s degree equivalent in a relevant field and have a minimum of 3 years work experience;
• You have good knowledge of the policy-making processes at the European level and of the EU institutions;
• You have good knowledge of public health, health promotion, primary health care or social services
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (native speaker level), and have proven experience in writing articles, blogs, news releases, reports and policy papers (in English). English writing skills will be tested during the interview;
• You can deliver high-quality results in a timely fashion and are comfortable working on your own as well as in teams;
• You are able to work on multiple tasks simultaneously to meet rapidly changing projects and priorities;
• You are rigorous and organised, with attention to detail;
• You have good communication and relationship-building skills;
• You have a pro-active, flexible and ‘hands-on’ approach to work;

Desirable

The following skills and experience are additional assets to your application:

• Knowledge of other European languages;
• Previous work experience within an organisation working on public health and/or social equity issues;
• Website and social media management.

Practicalities
This position is offered full-time for one year, with possibility of extension. It will be offered according to Belgian national legislation.

The liaison officer will report directly to EuroHealthNet’s PHASE Policy Senior Coordinator.

All applicants must be qualified, eligible and able to work in Belgium.  We are unfortunately not able to provide financial assistance to relocate to Brussels/Belgium.

For this position, EuroHealthNet offers a gross salary between €2,600 and €3,200, depending on experience, as well as benefits such as meal vouchers, financial support to use public transport to get to work and hospital insurance.

Applications

Applicants should send an email to Renaud Rollet, Administrator & Financial Officer, (r.rollet@eurohealthnet.eu), with the following subject line: “PHASE policy and liaison officer job application”.

Please include the following two files as attachments (do not include any other attachments):

1. A CV, with filename SURNAME_FIRSTNAME_CV
2. A motivation letter, one page maximum, with filename SURNAME_FIRSTNAME_ML

Please address the following question in your cover letter (one page maximum):

• What do you see as the three key priorities in 2016-2017 for work on tackling health inequalities at EU level and how can you contribute?”

Please note that applications that do not follow these instructions will be disregarded.

The closing date for applications is Monday 29th August, 12h00 pm (noon) CEST. Interviews (Skype or in-person) with short-listed candidates will be held in early September, with the appointment to begin as soon as possible after that.

Read more and apply here.