Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) European coordinator

Competences and skills

1. He/she will have at least 5 years experience with working in and with networks or coalitions.
2. Fluency in both spoken and written English is required.
3. The candidate is process-oriented and has proven capacity to develop and initiate consultation and decision-making processes, making use of diverse methodologies.
4. The candidate has proven capacity in network mobilizing and ability to collaborate with a wide variety of organisations based everywhere in Europe and across the world.
5. Good communication skills.
6. The candidate is willing to travel 5-6 times a year.
7. Experience with campaigning and advocacy work is a significant advantage.
8. A demonstrable affinity with social movements is a significant advantage.

Working conditions

1. A full time permanent contract (38 hours a week)
2. Based in Belgium, homeworking and regularly working time at Louvain-la-Neuve (3 minutes from the train station) or Schaerbeek.
3. A salary in line with the Sectorial Joint Agreement 329.02 of the Fédération WallonieBruxelles at grade 4.2 (for information only: gross wage of 3021.76 euros for 5 years valuable experience)
4. Allocation for homeworking and full refunding of transport costs 
5. Lunch pass 5,70 €/per day (including a worker contribution of 1,24 euros) - 20 days paid holiday/year

Please send your Motivation letter and Curriculum Vitae by email only to carole@achact.be before the 22/11/2019

The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) is a global network of hundreds of CSOs including NGOs, trade unions, women organisations, consumers and citizens organisations dedicated to improving working conditions and empowering workers in the global garment and sportswear industries. In Europe, we educate and mobilise consumers, lobby companies and governments, and offer direct solidarity support to workers as they fight for their rights and demand better working conditions. CCC Europe is one of the 4 regional coalitions of the global network. The Clean Clothes Campaign European coordinator coordinates a network of 138 members and partners in 24 European countries. In 15 European countries, these members and partners are organised in national coalitions. The European coordinator is employed by achACT asbl, (the national coordinating body of the Clean Clothes Campaign in French-speaking Belgium) and is an integral part of the achACT team (5 people). He or she is closely supported, coached and monitored by the two hosting organisations, achACT and WSM. Additionally, the European Regional Coordinating Body, composed of the two hosting organisations and 4 other member organisations from across Europe, provides guidance and supports the European coordinator in the discharge of his or her function.

Responsibilities

The overall responsibility of the European coordinator is to strengthen, broaden and improve the CCC European coalition to fulfil the CCC vision and mission.

This includes:

1. Strenghtening the CCC European coalition

• To initiate, support and follow up the CCC network development in Europe
• To enable and encourage active participation, communication and sharing of information by the members and partners of the European coalition
• To prepare, facilitate and follow up calls and meetings of the ERCB, the European Lobby & Advocacy Group and the European Campaign Committee
• To participate and support preparation of meetings of the group of CCC entities in European production countries (EPFG)
• To design, initiate and follow-up consultation and decision-making processes within European CCC coalition and its bodies (the European Regional Coordination Body, the European Lobby and Advocacy Committee, the European Campaigning group), in collaboration with the European Regional Coordinating Body
• To support and monitor the implementation of the objectives and work plans of the European coalition.
• To refine the process of planning, monitoring and evaluation within the European coalition
• To prepare meetings of the European coalition (2 times a year) and the European Regional Coordinating Body (1 to 2 times a year)

2. Communicating with and participating in the international CCC network

• To encourage the CCC European coalition to communicate and share information with the international network
• To encourage and facilitate the participation of the European coalition members and partners in the development of strategies at the level of the global CCC network
• To ensure a collective operational strategy is developed and implemented by the CCC European coalition based on the Global Strategy Framework
• To potentially represent the European coalition in the Strategy Board of the global network as an ex-officio member.
• To develop and maintain a functional relationship with the CCC International office and with other Regional coordinators.

3. Looking for grants and administer the European coordination

• To look for funding opportunities and to administrate the finances of the European coordination
• To contribute writing applications and to report back to donors

4. To coordinate specific actions

• To participate at the coordination team of the European project ‘Filling the gap: achieving living wages through improved transparency’ and to coordinate two work packages of the project.

5. To report back to the ERCB and the European coalition