Project assistant

Job description for Project Assistant

Background: Startup Moldova Foundation is an organization accelerating the technological innovation in the Republic of Moldova by training, encouraging, but also by creating a favorable environment for the development of startups and tech innovative companies.

The Foundation aims at:

- Community: Supporting and empowering the community of startups and innovative companies in the Republic of Moldova through community programs, activities and events. Creating and executing a unified strategy to promote the startup community.

- Education: Implementing programs and initiatives to encourage and empower people who want or plan to become a startup founder or active promoter of technological innovations.

- Resources for startups: Empowering startups and innovative companies with the necessary resources to achieve their goals: mentoring, tracking, operational training, facilitating partnerships, facilitating access to accounting services, legal assistance, thematic training, and others.

- Funding: Facilitating the access of startups and innovative companies to financing resources, their support and professional training in fundraising activities.

Job Title: Project Assistant

Basic Functions: Project Assistant performs its functions based on the job description and employment contract, and will perform its function on a full-time basis, being allocated in one or more projects, up to full capacity utilization.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

- Work collaboratively with the Project Coordinator to implement projects
- Responsible for achievement in due time and quality of tasks assigned
- Support with management of project office
- Support with administrative tasks, such as research and communication
- Direct participation in internal and external project communication
- Preparation of meetings, follow-up materials
- Support in events planning and organization
- Creation and maintenance of necessary, comprehensive project documentation
- Responsible for the quality and reliability of documentation and data provided
- Reporting and escalation to Project Coordinator

Reporting Line: Project Assistant is reporting to the Project Coordinator.

Coordination Line: Project Assistant will not have subordinates.

Requirements and qualifications:

- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills, detail-oriented
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Advanced levels of English, Romanian and Russian languages
- Strong sense of fairness and ethical principles
- Fascinated by the area of technological innovations
- Potential business trips across Moldova, up to 20% of the work time

Place of performance: Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

Period of performance: Full time

Deadline for applications: April 1, 2022

Expected start date: April 15, 2022

Application process: If interested, please send your CV and explain your motivation to take this position to the email: nbejan@startupmoldova.digital.

Please indicate in the email subject line: JOB APPLICATION Project Assistant.