Head of Office

European Alternatives is recruiting a head of office for our growing office in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

European Alternatives has been active in Cluj for over two years, and is looking to develop its activities throughout Eastern and South Eastern Europe with the Cluj office taking a lead role.

The head of office will be someone with a strong and demonstrable commitment to European Alternatives values and mission of promoting democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state. She or he will need to show experience in working internationally and project management and administration, ambition and vision to develop the organisation and spread its activities throughout the region.

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATIONS BY THE 8th OF FEBRUARY 2012!

The post will require regular travel to attend meetings of our organisation throughout Europe.

The main responsibilities of the head of office will include:
- Working with local groups throughout Romania to develop a strong and highly active network of members of European Alternatives
- Overseeing and managing the operations of European Alternatives in the Cluj office, including project management, overseeing administration
- Defining and implementing, in dialogue with the board of European Alternatives, a strategic plan for the development of the organisation throughout Romania and East and South Eastern Europe
- Managing staff and volunteers
- Fundraising and relations with funders and partners.

The candidate will show
- Experience in project management
- International experience working in the NGO field
- Fluency in English and Romanian, further languages an advantage.

European Alternatives is a transnational membership organisation promoting democracy, equality and culture beyond the nation state. The nation state is no longer the appropriate political form in which to define democratic decision-making and active citizenship, equality between people, the respect and extension of rights. The nation state is not the appropriate political form to promote a responsible politics for the environment, ensure political control over the economy and an equitable distribution of wealth, or promote peace between people. European Alternatives seeks to promote alternative forms of political subjectivity and collective political action.

European Alternatives believes that social and political change requires artistic and cultural engagement as much as other forms of engagement: social and political change being understood by the organisation as a complete renewal of society which is not limited to any one domain or sector.

European Alternatives does not believe that Europe can be defined in geographical or ethnic terms, neither by borders nor roots. Europe must be understood as a space of exchange, of experimentation and of dialogue.

European Alternatives promotes its objectives by means of public events and the annual TRANSEUROPA Festival, research, activities promoting active citizenship, youth projects, campaigns and publications. It is active throughout Europe and in the rest of the world, and carries on its activities, locally, regionally, and transnationally at various levels.

European Alternatives rejects the inter-national logic of decision-making based on the logic of nation states, and endeavours to be fully transnational in its decision-making structures as in its activities.