Policy and Projects Coordinator

The European Cyclists Federation (ECF) is the worlds largest and bestknown federation of procycling civil society organisations. We promote cycling as a sustainable climatefriendly and healthy means of transport and leisure. We do this by advocating for the integration of cycling in transport mobility and sustainable tourism policy at the level of the European Union and at the national regional and local levels.

The Policy and Projects Coordinator will have the opportunity to assist the ECF team with delivering results on a groundbreaking new project that is sure to make an impact on our aims which include lobbying for the successful implementation of a historic EU strategy on cycling called the European Declaration on Cycling.

Tasks

ECF is working with a dynamic consortium to implement a study on crossborder cycling infrastructure in the EU. The aim of this project is to establish a data baseline on cycling infrastructure usage road safety and other relevant indicators in the EU that would enable EU authorities and national governments to collect meaningful data on cycle route networks and other aspects of cycling infrastructure usage and services. This is a project that will greatly empower ECFs ability to advocate for highquality cycling infrastructure that contributes to getting more people to cycle for transport and leisure.

The Policy and Projects Coordinator will work under the supervision of our Director for
Intellectual Property and Data Collection and with a team of cycling infrastructure and data experts to support ECF with delivering on its project commitments. This includes for example contributions to analyses of cycle infrastructure and usage across Europe and the collection of data from national authorities as well as providing assistance on project management.

The successful candidate will also have an opportunity to work on one or more other EUfunded projects that ECF is involved in and to contribute to our general advocacy work programme for 2025. This would include for example doing desk research on transport policies collecting input from our members and helping to maintain our online trackers and tools.

Requirements

We are looking for a candidate who is motivated about cycling for transport and leisure has at least basic knowledge of cycling infrastructure terminology and is able to open and understand GIS data files. Ideally the candidate would also have experience with EUfunded projects and sustainable mobility and is willing to develop their skills in this area further.

Essential skills:

• An ability to open and understand the structure of GIS datasets in different formats for example ESRI shapefiles geopackages geoJSON and CSV files (very essential)
• At least a basic understanding of cycling infrastructure terminology and a willingness to learn more
• Experience and skills on tasks related to policy and advocacy (researching policies contributing to policy analyses drafting policy recommendations)
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Ability to analyse and summarise complex sets of data and information
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and SharePoint systems
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Dynamic proactive and outcomeoriented personality
• Organised wellstructured resilient and with strong prioritisation skills
• Eligbility to work and live in Belgium and the EU

Desirable skills:

• Experience working on EUfunded projects (Horizon Europe Erasmus Interreg or European Commission tenders)
• Experience and skills in project management and administration such as overseeing implementation of key deliverables and managing project engagement (work day allocation project timelines etc.)
• Knowledge of additional EU languages
• Proficiency with using automatic translation to find information
• Experience with sustainable mobility and transport topics at the EU and/or national level
• Experience with road infrastructure safety management guidelines the TransEuropean Transport Network and/or infrastructure investments
• An interest to passionately advocate for more cycling in Europe!

Benefits

You will have a place in the worlds largest and bestknown cyclists federation promoting cycling as the healthiest most climatefriendly and efficient means of transport and leisure.

You will be a part of an international team located in Brussels full of friendly and passionate colleagues.

This position is offered for a 12month temporary contract on a fulltime basis starting in February 2025 or as soon as possible. There is the possibility of an extended contract based on the persons work performance and on ECFs organisational resources.

ECF offers an employment package in line with similar nongovernmental organisations
based in Brussels. Our package includes a competitive salary communsurate with a role requiring 12 years work experience flexible working hours with a good worklife
balance 20 legal vacation and 10 extralegal vacation days per year holiday pay and 13th salary cycling to work allowance lunch vouchers and an extralegal pension scheme.

Please submit your CV and a onepage cover letter in English as one PDF document through this portal.

The deadline for applications is 18 January 2025.

Interviews will be conducted online on a rolling basis until we find a suitable candidate. Due to the high volume of applications we expect we will only contact shortlisted candidates.

We encourage you to apply right away if you think you are a good fit for the role. The interviews will consist of two parts:

• A technical exercise of approximately one hour replicating a work experience for the project we are doing on crossborder cycling infrastructure which we will use to determine a candidates technical qualifications.
• A traditional 30minute interview to inquire further about a candidates experience and qualifiations and to determine whether a candidate is a good fit for ECF.

ECF is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates irrespective of racial or ethnic origin opinions or beliefs gender sexual orientation health or disabilities.