Job Details:
Organisation: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Deadline Mon, 21 Jul 2014
Job type: Contract
Location:
United Kingdom
Description
JREQ020609 - Project Assistant - Fixed Term Contract
Fixed term Contract: 6 months Duration
Part-time: 3 days a week.
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. At the Thomson Reuters Foundation we stand for free, independent journalism, human rights, women’s empowerment and the rule of law. We expose corruption worldwide and play a leading role in the global fight against human trafficking. We use the skills, values, and expertise of Thomson Reuters to run programmes that trigger real change and empower people around the world. We tackle global issues. We achieve lasting impact.
With over 70 staff members around the world and offices in 10 locations across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, the Foundation has quickly become a point of reference in the corporate philanthropic world.
Some of our high profile initiatives include:
- Independent Journalism - for the past 30 years we have been training journalists and media professional, improving the standards of journalism around the world. We also build platforms for independent journalism like Aswat Masriya, an independent and unbiased political news website launched in Egypt in 2011.
- Under-reported stories - our growing team of journalists covers the stories other media won’t cover with an emphasis on humanitarian relief, corruption, women’s rights and climate change.
- Free legal assistance – TrustLaw is the world’s leading service providing free legal assistance to NGOs and social enterprise. The network boasts 1,600 members, including 1,700 NGOs and social enterprises, 380 law firms and corporate legal teams, and more than 100,000 lawyers.
- Trust Women - an influential international conference to take action by putting the rule of law behind women’s rights. Every year Trust Women forges new strategic commitments to help women to know and defend their rights.The Position
This entry level role will report to one of the team’s Project Managers and will primarily provide support on a project being launched in 2014. The project is focussed on Africa (including Francophone West Africa) and aims to improve media coverage of financial and extractives issues that are central to development.
Key Responsibilities
- To provide logistical support for activities including workshops and mentoring schemes
- To be a point of contact for project participants
- To provide support to Project Managers on project finances, including processing invoices and keeping records of spending
- To support Project Managers with regular project reports
- To write website content relating to the project
- To perform data capture and maintain database records
- To assist with other duties as required
Qualifications
Qualifications
- This is an entry level role so some exposure to office work will be of benefit
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines
- Highly motivated with ability to work independently or in a team environment; a self-starter and able to work with changing priorities and time pressures
- Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with people from different cultures and backgrounds
- Fluency in English is required
- Fluency or near-fluency in French is strongly preferred
- Competency in Word, Outlook and Excel
Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
Job: Administration Family Group
Primary Location: London, GB
Other Locations:
Organization: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Schedule: Part-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel:
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Project Assistant (French speaking) - part time
Job posted by: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 7 Jul 2014Job Details:
Organisation: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Deadline Mon, 21 Jul 2014
Job type: Contract
Location: United Kingdom
Description
JREQ020609 - Project Assistant - Fixed Term Contract
Fixed term Contract: 6 months Duration
Part-time: 3 days a week.
We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. At the Thomson Reuters Foundation we stand for free, independent journalism, human rights, women’s empowerment and the rule of law. We expose corruption worldwide and play a leading role in the global fight against human trafficking. We use the skills, values, and expertise of Thomson Reuters to run programmes that trigger real change and empower people around the world. We tackle global issues. We achieve lasting impact.
With over 70 staff members around the world and offices in 10 locations across the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, the Foundation has quickly become a point of reference in the corporate philanthropic world.
Some of our high profile initiatives include:
- Independent Journalism - for the past 30 years we have been training journalists and media professional, improving the standards of journalism around the world. We also build platforms for independent journalism like Aswat Masriya, an independent and unbiased political news website launched in Egypt in 2011.
- Under-reported stories - our growing team of journalists covers the stories other media won’t cover with an emphasis on humanitarian relief, corruption, women’s rights and climate change.
- Free legal assistance – TrustLaw is the world’s leading service providing free legal assistance to NGOs and social enterprise. The network boasts 1,600 members, including 1,700 NGOs and social enterprises, 380 law firms and corporate legal teams, and more than 100,000 lawyers.
- Trust Women - an influential international conference to take action by putting the rule of law behind women’s rights. Every year Trust Women forges new strategic commitments to help women to know and defend their rights.The Position
This entry level role will report to one of the team’s Project Managers and will primarily provide support on a project being launched in 2014. The project is focussed on Africa (including Francophone West Africa) and aims to improve media coverage of financial and extractives issues that are central to development.
Key Responsibilities
- To provide logistical support for activities including workshops and mentoring schemes
- To be a point of contact for project participants
- To provide support to Project Managers on project finances, including processing invoices and keeping records of spending
- To support Project Managers with regular project reports
- To write website content relating to the project
- To perform data capture and maintain database records
- To assist with other duties as required
Qualifications
Qualifications
- This is an entry level role so some exposure to office work will be of benefit
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to juggle multiple tasks and meet deadlines
- Highly motivated with ability to work independently or in a team environment; a self-starter and able to work with changing priorities and time pressures
- Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to communicate effectively with people from different cultures and backgrounds
- Fluency in English is required
- Fluency or near-fluency in French is strongly preferred
- Competency in Word, Outlook and Excel
Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.
To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.
More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.
Job: Administration Family Group
Primary Location: London, GB
Other Locations:
Organization: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Schedule: Part-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Travel:
Job Segments: Project Manager, Part Time, Bilingual, Database, Intellectual Property, Technology, Legal
- See more and apply at: http://jobs.thomsonreuters.com/job/London-Project-Assistant-28French-speaking-29-FTC-Job/73230200/#sthash.Cs57iXUs.dpuf