Political Intern - Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Job Category  Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Policy & Political roles)
Job Subcategory  Political

Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)  

The British Embassy in Bucharest is part of a world-wide network, representing British political, economic and consular interests overseas and is now looking to recruit an Intern for the Political Team.

The main role of the Political Intern is to support the work of three Senior Political Officers in the Political Section by drafting reports, performing research for briefings, translating documents, and supporting with or arranging visits.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Researching, drafting and collating briefings and reports;
• General office administrative support for Political Section and Chancery;
• Support with projects and events;
• Translations from English to Romanian and vice versa;

Essential qualifications and experience  

• Excellent command of English (demonstrated by either relevant certificates or graduation from an English speaking academic programme);
• Proficient command of Romanian;
• Solid knowledge of economics, internal politics and international relations or EU affairs (to be tested during the selection process);
• Availability for full-time employment from April/May 2016 to end March 2017;
• Good report-writing skills (to be tested during the selection process);
• Strong research and communication skills;
• Good basic IT skills, ideally including Excel;
• Available to work outside of office hours on occasion.

Required competencies   - Collaborating and Partnering, Delivering at Pace, Demonstrating Resilience

• Application deadline   - 5 March 2017 
• Grade   Internship
• Type of Position  Fixed Term, Full-time, Temporary
• Working hours per week  35
• Region  Europe, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
• Country/Territory  Romania
• Location (City)  Bucharest
• Type of Post  British Embassy
• Number of vacancies  1
• Starting monthly salary (RON)  1450
• Start Date  1 April 2017 
• Other benefits and conditions of employment  

This is a full-time position of 5 days (35 hours per week) for a fixed-term period of 12 months.

The annual leave entitlement is 21 days per year pro rata and the Embassy also enjoys a maximum of 14 Romanian / UK public holidays per year.

Monthly salary is 1450 RON gross. 

The successful candidate will be subject to confirmation of a background check and security clearance, and satisfactory completion of a probationary period of 20 days. 

Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy are subject to terms and conditions of service according to Romanian employment law.

Additional information  
Please note that the deadline for applications is 23:55 on the day mentioned in the above field “Application deadline”. 
We advise you to allow enough time to complete and submit your full application, since only applications completed and submitted before the deadline will be considered. 
Please be aware that the deadline for submitting applications is considered to be the time zone for the country where the vacancy has arisen.