Treasurer

Do you have exper­i­ence with fin­ances? Do you have the skills to over­see an inter­na­tional organ­iz­a­tion? Then con­sider apply­ing for the pos­i­tion of Treas­urer!

The European Stu­dent Think Tank’s Treas­urer together with the Pres­id­ent and Sec­ret­ary forms the Dir­ect­ive Board that, together with the Exec­ut­ive Board, runs the EST and dir­ects the organization’s activ­it­ies. As Treas­urer you will focus on the fin­an­cial aspect of the organ­iz­a­tion as well as the over­all func­tion­ing and struc­ture.

A Treas­urer should be organ­ized and have some exper­i­ence with fin­ances. One of the main tasks is acquis­i­tion, so prior involve­ment in fun­drais­ing (espe­cially EU fund­ing) is pre­ferred. In addi­tion, as EST is an inter­na­tional organ­iz­a­tion, we are look­ing for internationally-minded stu­dents with good com­mu­nic­a­tion and Eng­lish skills. The pos­i­tion will take up roughly 10 hours per week, depend­ing on exper­i­ence and work ethic, and is unpaid.

Being treas­urer will allow you to:

• Acquire firsthand exper­i­ence with work­ing in an inter­na­tional think tank
• Acquire fun­drais­ing skills and know­ledge of EU fund­ing schemes
• Be involved in the European policy-making process
• Enter into and expand a net­work of like-minded peers

The period of employ­ment will run until at least June 2014, but pref­er­ence will be given to can­did­ates who are able to stay longer. Res­id­ency in The Neth­er­lands (but not Dutch nation­al­ity) is strongly pre­ferred.*

If you are inter­ested in apply­ing please have a look at our website for the contact information and send an email with your CV and a motiv­a­tion let­ter before Feb­ru­ary 11th, 2014. We will be hand­ling applic­a­tions as they come in, so the earlier you apply the better.

* Unfor­tu­nately, because the Dir­ect­ive Board has to be in close con­tact and attend biweekly board meet­ings in per­son, we have been forced to limit eli­gib­il­ity to people who can be in our office in Ams­ter­dam at least a long even­ing every two weeks and some­times for longer peri­ods. If this dis­qual­i­fies you from the pos­i­tion but you would still like to con­trib­ute, please be in touch with us as well.