6 new job vacancies

The Financial Mechanism Office, which administers the EEA and Norway Grants on behalf of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, now has six vacancies within finance, communication, civil society, countries and donor support. We are also looking for new trainees.

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Within the coming six months period, six positions need to be filled in the FMO, mostly due to current contracts coming to an end. This should be an exciting period to join our organisation as some 140 EEA and Norway Grants programmes are being established across the 15 countries in Central and Southern Europe which benefit from these grants. Programmes are being set up in the areas of environment and climate change, civil society, human and social development, cultural heritage and cultural exchange, research and scholarships, decent work and justice and home affairs.

Vacancies

The vacancies announced are:
Head of Finance
Financial Controller
(Senior) Sector Officer for Civil Society
Country Officer
Communication Officer
Senior Officer (support to Financial Mechanism Committee)
We are also recruiting new trainees for a 10 month period from 1 September 2012. Read about our traineeships.

Experience and application procedure

Applicants need to have at least 5 years of relevant work experience for an officer position, at least 7 years for a senior officer post and at least 10 years for the Head position.
The FMO is affiliated to the EFTA Secretariat in Brussels and has 50 staff members from 15 countries. For further information and a full description of the different positions, please consult http://jobs.efta.int where interested applicants must apply online via the EFTA recruitment tool. The deadline is 4 June 2012.

For more information

More information about the positions can be obtained by contacting the following members of FMO staff:
For the Head of Finance and Financial Controller positions, please contact Deputy Director Kurt Haugen, +32 (0) 2 211 18 82 or khu@efta.int

For the Country Officer position, please contact Head of Country Unit Kristin Sverdrup on +32 (0) 2 211 18 28 or ksv@efta.int 
For the Civil Society Officer position, please contact Head of Sector Rune Vistad on +32 (0) 2 211 18 31 or rvi@efta.int
For the Communication Officer position, please contact Head of Communication, Reporting and Evaluation Inger Kristine Stoll on +32 (0) 2 211 18 40 or ist@efta.int
For the Senior Officer (support to Financial Mechanism Committee) position, please contact Head of Administration and Donor Relations Bjarni Vestmann on +32 (0) 2 211 18 91 or bve@efta.int