PRIMO Europe offers graduates and post graduates an opportunity to gain work experience in the exciting international field. It is the possibility for young academics to experience the European wide approach of our association.

PRIMO Europe provides the trainees with top-level coaching, support and guidance in the international network of Chief Executives who are highly involved with risk management and public governance in Europe as well as the European institutions.

What is PRIMO Europe?

PRIMO Europe is established with the aim of advancing the knowledge and use of risk management within the local governmental sector, as well as the public sector at large, in Europe.

To achieve this purpose PRIMO Europe provides a comprehensive web library with risk management information, newsletters, education and conferences.

PRIMO Europe’s long-term aim is to establish risk management as a natural and integral part of good public governance. It comprises a pan-European umbrella organization of independent PRIMO National Chapters and other organizations within the public sector 16 European countries, covering 16.000 managers.

What is a PRIMO Europe trainee?

Being a PRIMO Europe International Trainee means working on many different topics. You will be in charge of the PRIMO Magazine ‘Risk Management & Governance’ and of the PRIMO Europe website www.primo-europe.eu. It is your task to organize conferences on Risk Management and to broaden the PRIMO Europe network. You will be organizing all meetings of the Board and the General Assembly and you are the go-to person for all PRIMO Europe partners and the PRIMO National Chapters.

Business trips all through Europe are part of the deal, as also a chance to expand your European network.

We are looking for a graduate or post graduate student, preferably with a degree or in the third or fourth year of their studies. We can offer you an traineeship for 3 days a week, for a period of six months. Next period for which we have an opening, starts 1 March 2010.

Interested?

Please send your Curriculum Vitae to Karl.Vanderplaetse@vvsg.be

For more information about PRIMO Europe or the PRIMO Europe trainee program, visit our website www.primo-europe.eu or contact our recent International Trainee: Inge Sebregts (+31 (0) 73 680 8992 or ISebregts@brabant.nl).

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