The European Central Securities Depositories Association (ECSDA) is recruiting an executive assistant to support the Secretary General of its new Brussels office (located near Schuman, in the city centre).

Responsibilities will include:

1.Personal assistant to the Secretary General, including diary management, travel arrangements;

2.Office management: relations with suppliers, filing;

3.Basic accounting and management of invoices;

4.Event organisation: booking meeting rooms (external and internal meetings), preparing meeting documentation, arranging for catering;

5.Phone support: answering general phone queries, screening telephone calls and transmitting messages, acting as first contact point with the association's members, organising conference calls;

6.Online communication: answering general email queries, preparing correspondence, updating the website and helping with the formatting of publications;

7.Other administrative tasks as required.

Essential requirements for the position are:

• Fluency in English (written and oral), ECSDA’s working language
• A good level of French and/or Dutch
• Preferably 1-5 years of experience
• Secretarial training and computer literacy (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Able to perform multiple tasks under time pressure, to take initiative and work independently
• Reliable and tactful, especially when dealing with confidential work
• Efficient and extremely well organised.

Our offer:

The position involves many contacts with top-level executives and offers interesting growth prospects. The successful candidate will be offered a full-time contract under Belgian law with a competitive salary and attractive fringe benefits. Ideally, start date should be September or October.

Apply:

A CV and motivation letter should be sent to: jobs@ecsda.com before 10/09/2010.