Scholarships The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation

Scholarships the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (EIUC) is seeking two well qualified people on a mission of five months as the stock AE for 2011/2012 academic year in Venice Lido, Italy.

Scholarships functions and duties of Fellows as members of the E. MA academic and administrative unit of the E. Lido work under the supervision of the Director E. - based in Venice MA MA program. Scholarships the position involves a combination of training and various academic responsibilities and procedures related to E. MA program.

Duties will include:

1. To as a reference model for current students. This task can be detailed as follows:
- The students Scholarships presented their proposals to develop master's research in terms of choice for the second half of the university accommodation;
- Scholarships Organization and administration, under the supervision of the Director E. MA program, the distribution table of students second semester.
- Require the provision of tuition fees for individual students or groups of students in special support;

2. To carry out administrative tasks related to E. MA Programme and external stakeholders to Venice for the period of the first half to come.

3. To self-teaching and the identification of program units. This task can be detailed as follows:
- To drive organization and conduct of seminars (about 20 hours of class time) by introducing the basic concepts of law, political science (especially
International Relations) and / or philosophy in the context of human rights;
- To evaluate the work of students and teaching and marking activities under the supervision of the Director E. MA program;
- Establish and facilitate working groups and workshops in the
Curriculum;
- To support and collaboration with professors E. AD and other officials in the first six months for the implementation of scientific and educational program;
- To participate in the excursion in the first half.

4. To report regularly to the program director and E. MA EIUC Secretary General of their activities.

Requirements
Advanced Ph.D. candidate in a relevant discipline (ideally one fellow should be researching on Law and/or Political science with a focus on international relations;

the other fellow should have a research focus on Social Sciences and/or Humanities/ Philosophy of Human Rights or significant experience in a University environment;

team-working ability; excellent communication and group management skills;

mentoring abilities and understanding the needs and concerns of peers and students;

experience in working with academics in an international environment; excellent knowledge of English, including drafting ability.

• It is indispensable that candidates have a very good knowledge of MS Word (including use of forms, fields and tables) and MS Excel (including creation of worksheets, formulas and sorting). In addition, candidates should know already or have the ability to learn quickly how to use Adobe Professional (preparing and editing of PDFs) and other IT-related applications;
• Knowledge of Italian and possibly French will be a plus.

The E.MA Fellows selected will be required to take up full service starting from 29th

August 2011 until 31st January 2012. Gross salary per month will be between €2.500 and €3.000 per month, depending on qualifications and seniority.

The Secretariat is available for providing more information to short-listed candidates.

Deadline for sending applications is 1th May 2011 at 10 a.m. (C.E.T.).

Please send a cover letter, a detailed curriculum vitae and two recommendation letters in English to the EIUC Secretary General, Prof. Florence Benoît-Rohmer and the E.MA Programme Director, Prof. Fabrizio Marrella via email: to fabrizio.marrella@eiuc.org and silvia.delfabbro@eiuc.org. For exceptional reasons only, you can send it via fax at +39 041 2720914 by the same deadline.

The EIUC Secretariat assures the strict confidentiality of the application procedure.

Procedure and tentative schedule

After publication of the vacancy and reception of applications, the EIUC Selection Committee will draw a short list of candidates to be interviewed. A few weeks after having set up a shortlist, the Committee interviews the candidates and submits a recommendation of candidates to be appointed.

The schedule we would like to adhere to is the following:
- Shortlisting decisions should be made by 10th
May 2011;
- Interviews will take place in May and June 2011: shortlisted candidates will receive details of the date of the interviews (the venue will be EIUC);
- The Selection Committee will then finally decide and a formal offer may be expected soon thereafter;
- The successful candidates shall take up the post on 29th
August 2011.

Please note: the filling of the above position is contingent upon approval of funding by the European Commission.

Application Deadline : 1 May 2011

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