IUSY is looking for a Project Manager for our secretariat. As a Project Manager of IUSY, you will be engaged in all our activities and will get broad and multicultural project management experience. You will also get a unique chance to engage with the world from a political and social perspective.

The IUSY Secretariat is a small team consisting of the Secretary General, who leads the work, and three project managers. The job is full time, including frequent travel and work during weekends. The Secretariat is located in Vienna, Austria, and it is a requirement that you move and live there. We hope that you are ready to start working at the end of August/beginning of September at the latest.

In cooperation with the Secretary General and the rest of the secretariat, the Project Manager will assist in the management, preparation and running of seminars, statutory meetings and other political initiatives set out by IUSY. The Project Manager is responsible for the IUSY global project, a cooperation between IUSY, the Swedish Social Democratic Youth League (SSU) and the Olof Palme International Center (OPC).

The Project Manager will be responsible for project and funding applications, as well as reporting. In addition to the previous mentioned tasks, the Project Manager will assist with the daily running of the secretariat, such as answering emails and phones, updating the website and whatever else the Secretary General needs to run the office.

Responsibilities:

• To generate ideas for developing the global project
• Responsible for reporting of grant funding and narrative reporting related to the global project
• Responsible for arranging activities that are outlined in the project description, in co-operation with the Secretary General, Presidium, IUSY member organisations and other actors
• Responsible for preparing and organising international campaigns together with the Secretary General, Presidium and the project manager responsible for communications
• Administrative office tasks

Requirements:

• Respect the values of IUSY
• Have interest in human rights, democracy building and international solidarity
• Capacity to organise conferences, run programme, campaigns, seminars and trainings
• Capacity to work in a team as well as individually and in the multicultural atmosphere of IUSY
• Excellent attention to details and highly organised; ability to meet deadlines
• Be ready to be flexible in terms of working hours and able to work under time pressure
• Interpersonal skills
• Creative with a strong mind for ideas for new projects and campaigns
• Keeps up to date with latest developments in relevant organisations with focus on projects and funding
• Fluent in written and spoken English; a good knowledge in French is desirable, but not a requirement

Technical skills

• Advance knowledge of content management systems
• Managing Microsoft Office package
• Prior knowledge and use of analytical tools and software including Google Analytics
• A strong understanding and experience of working with applying for projects

Conditions

IUSY offers a full time open contract (38,5 hours/week) that complies with the Austrian labour legislation pay scale grouping. IUSY operates a 14-month salary system. The salary is 2.300€ per month before tax (two months’ salary are given in July and December).

About IUSY

IUSY is an international NGO made up of about 138 socialist, social democratic and labour youth organisations from over 93 countries all over the world. IUSY is the world’s biggest political youth organisation.

Our international organisation has over 100 years of experience in running activities for promotion of our principles and ideas of young people for political solutions to issues and challenges of pressing concern in their societies. Our activities include short- and long-term programmes aiming at strengthening youth organisations through education and cooperation, empowering young people for active participation in social and political life through seminars, conferences and debates, increasing equal participation of underrepresented groups of young people and providing a global platform for cooperation and exchange of ideas of young people through world youth festivals, global campaigns and global communication platforms. We organise activities all over the world; conferences, meetings, seminars, workshops, trainings, study visits and festivals. We believe in a world based on equality, sustainability and solidarity. We want young people to be able to shape their own future. Therefore the struggle for democracy and human rights comes first for us!

Applications should be sent to the IUSY Secretary General (iusy@iusy.org) by 20 July 2016 at latest.

The application should include the following documents:

• Curriculum vitae
• Motivation letter
• 2 references

Please write the subject of your email as: IUSY PM activity organiser – (your name)

Interviews will be held 25-29 July 2016 in Vienna, Austria. After the interviews, all candidates will be informed of the results.

The new staff member is expected to join the office in the end of August/beginning of September.

Contact:
IUSY Secretariat
iusy@iusy.org
+43 699 171 20 830

ENGLISH VERSION

We are concerned for the post-electoral situation that exists in the Dominican Republic following the holding of the presidential elections, congressional and municipal elections held on the past 15^th of May in the Caribbean country.

We find it inconsistent that the Dominican electoral institution deploys new technologies without first making sure that these would serve to stimulate and ensure transparency in the electoral process. The fact that a high percentage of the voting centres did not operate on the new technology, tells us that the electoral institution was not prepared for the implementation of this new way of counting the votes. That is why we understand that the main failure in this electoral process was caused by the implementation of these new elements.

We emphasise the preliminary report of the Organization of American States (OAS) with regard to the mechanism for the purchase of ballot papers and proselytising, which was exhibited on the day of the elections. For us, these actions reflect the absence of regulation in the Dominican electoral institution that should ensure that these types of actions are not present in the processes of election.

The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) is an international organisation that promotes freedom and democracy all around the world. In the Dominican Republic we have observed a democratic deficit. It is for us worrying that the president of the electoral institution in Dominican Republic, that prepares the elections in that country, is a member of a body of a political party that participates in the elections. Even more worrying is that the person is from the party that directs the executive, the legislature and the judiciary powers. The Dominican Republic needs a law to regulate efficiently the electoral processes and to promote transparency and respect for democracy in the country.

We would like to extend some suggestions to the Dominican authorities addressed in three points:

1. Promote a law on political parties and a reform of the electoral code in the National Congress and within this new law regulate the private financing and provide a greater sense of equality in the distribution of public financing of political parties.
2. To invest decisively in giving the Dominican electoral institution the mechanisms of transparency in order to recover the Dominican citizens’ trust. In order to achieve this, we urge that the people responsible for these electoral institutions are not politically affiliated in any party so as to guarantee the impartiality of decision-making.
3. To establish sanctions on buying identity and electoral documents, and proselytising, in polling places on election day.

SPANISH VERSION

Nos sentimos preocupados por la situación post-electoral que existe en la República Dominicana a raíz de la celebración de las elecciones presidenciales, congresuales y municipales celebradas el pasado 15 de mayo en el caribeño país.

Nos resulta incoherente que la institución electoral dominicana implemente nuevas tecnologías sin antes asegurarse de que estas servirían para dinamizar y garantizar la transparencia en el proceso electoral. El hecho de que en un alto porcentaje de los centros electorales no funcionaran las nuevas tecnologías, nos indica de que la institución electoral no se preparó para la implementación de esta nueva forma de conteo de los votos. Es por eso que entendemos que la principal falla en este proceso electoral estuvo causada por la implementación de estos nuevos elementos.

Estamos de acuerdo con el informe preliminar de la Organización de Estados Americanos(OEA) con relación al mecanismo de compra de cédulas y proselitismo partidario que se exhibió el día de las elecciones. Para nosotros estas actuaciones reflejan una ausencia de regulación de la institución electoral dominicana que debe velar para que este tipo de malas acciones no se presenten en los procesos de elección popular.

La Unión Internacional de Juventudes Socialistas (IUSY) es una organización internacional que promueve la libertad y la democracia en todo el mundo, y en la República Dominicana hemos observado una debilidad en el desarrollo de su democracia. Es para nosotros un atentado a la democracia dominicana, que el presidente de la institución electoral que prepara las elecciones en dicho país, sea miembro de un organismo de un partido político que participa en las elecciones, y más deprimente que sea del partido que se encuentra dirigiendo el poder ejecutivo, el poder legislativo y el poder judicial, ya que detectamos que el presidente de este último poder mencionado también es un miembro militante del mismo partido. La República Dominicana necesita de una ley que regule eficientemente los procesos electorales y que promueva la transparencia y el respeto a la democracia del país caribeño.

Desde nuestra organización le extendemos sugerencias a las autoridades dominicanas dirigidas en tres ordenes:

1. Promover en el congreso nacional una ley de partidos políticos y una reforma al código electoral, que dentro de esta nueva ley se regule el financiamiento privado y proporcione un mayor sentido de igualdad en la distribución del financiamiento publico de los partidos políticos.
2. Determinantemente revestir a la institución electoral dominicana, de mecanismos mas transparentes para recuperar la confianza del ciudadano dominicano. En este sentido exhortamos que las personas que dirijan las instituciones electorales no estén afiliadas a ningún partido político para garantizar la imparcialidad en la toma de decisiones.
3. Establecer sanciones a la compra de documentos de identidad y electorales, así como al proselitismo en centros electorales el día de las elecciones.