Project Officer at "SolidarityNow" (Thessaloniki)

SolidarityNow (SN) was founded in 2013 upon an initiative of the Open Society Foundations (OSF). SN acts as a network of people and organizations working together to alleviate the suffering of those worst affected by the socioeconomic crisis. Until now SN has supported and funded over 70 projects around Greece in the areas of legal, medical, psycho-social support, education and culture, job creation and support to refugees amongst others. SN’s initial areas of intervention started in the wider area of Thessaloniki and Athens through Solidarity Centers, one-stop shops, hosting a variety of civil society organizations, covering services ranging from relief; medical aid, legal and psycho-social support to promotion and protection of human rights, through monitoring and advocacy.

The organization seeks for:

- Project Officer (based in Thessaloniki)
Qualifications:
- University degree from an accredited academic in Political or Social Sciences, Law, Human Rights, International Relations, Administration or other relevant field;
- Minimum two (2) years of relevant experience in Project Management and/or human rights and humanitarian context;
- Experience in working with IOs, NGOs as well as with governmental and local authorities;
- Excellent capacities in word and excel processing and drafting in English and Greek;
- Good knowledge and competence of IT applications and software;
- Ability to work under a distance-management scheme;
- Ability to work on own initiative and at the same time as part of a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team;
- Ability to organize and priorities workload, using initiative when appropriate;
- Understanding of the people on the move emergency and the socio-economic hardship aspects, demonstrating high cultural sensitivity.

If you are interested in applying, please fill send your CV and motivation letter to recruitment@solidaritynow.org by March 11th, 2016 (EOB), mentioning in the email subject “Project Officer_Thessaloniki”.

SN is an equal opportunity employer. Persons with disabilities and from vulnerable and disadvantaged groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Due to the urgency of recruitment, SN reserves the right to complete the process even before the deadline for CV submissions.