🇧🇪 Policy Assistant Position in Belgium 📋 Support EU Education and Lifelong Learning Advocacy at a Membership Platform 🎓 (€865.90–€1,056/month)

If you are passionate about education policy and want to launch your career at the heart of EU advocacy, this Policy Assistant role at the Lifelong Learning Platform in Brussels is a fantastic entry point. You will support a dynamic policy team, follow EU legislative developments, and help shape advocacy on lifelong learning, all within a collaborative, multicultural environment that values growth and impact.

About the Organisation

The Lifelong Learning Platform (LLLP) is a membership-based organisation working to make an impactful contribution to the education and training sector in Europe. It offers a working environment that values growth, collaboration, and meaningful contributions. LLLP is looking for a Policy Assistant who is a team player, eager to constantly learn, and able to work within a multicultural, membership-based organisation.

Your Role

Policy Support (90%)

📚 Support the policy team with research and analysis of current policy initiatives

🇪🇺 Monitor relevant developments in EU legislative processes

🗣️ Communicate on policy initiatives and relevant developments to internal and external stakeholders

📝 Draft and disseminate reports, briefings, and info notes for internal use

📨 Draft and disseminate the advocacy newsletters for LLLP members

🤝 Liaise with the communication team for external dissemination and with the project team to align project outputs with LLLP's general policy objectives

🎧 Attend and report on relevant meetings on behalf of LLLP, without speaking duties

🖊️ Take minutes at LLLP policy events, including the Erasmus+ Coalition, internal working groups, flagship events, and policy events of LLLP projects

Administration (10%)

🎪 Support LLLP in the organisation of events

🗂️ Archive and file relevant documents created for policy and project colleagues

Essential Qualifications and Experience

🎓 A post-secondary degree in European studies, project management, educational sciences, political science, or a related discipline, and/or relevant work or volunteer experience in education or the non-profit sector

🗣️ An excellent command of the English language, spoken and written

🇪🇺 A keen interest in working on EU policy and initiatives

Highly Valued

💡 A genuine interest in lifelong learning, education, and training

✍️ Good writing and analysis skills, with the ability to adapt your language to the target audience

📱 Good digital skills and media literacy

🛠️ Experience with communication tools, such as WordPress or Wix, Mailchimp or Brevo, Basecamp, and social media

💶 Knowledge of EU funding programmes, especially Erasmus+

🌍 Knowledge of additional languages

Terms and Conditions

📋 Position: Policy Assistant, reporting to the Policy and Advocacy Manager

⏳ Duration: 6 months, with the possibility of extension

🕒 Capacity: full-time, 37.5 hours per week, with home-working possible for 2 days per week

📍 Location: Rue de deux Eglises 14, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

📄 Contract type: Contrat d'Immersion Professionnelle (CIP), subject to approval by the public authority, or an Erasmus+ scholarship if applicable

💶 Remuneration: €1,056 per month (above 21 years of age) or €865.90 per month (below 21) under the CIP; remuneration under Erasmus+ grants varies depending on the support received. LLLP also covers local transport costs in Brussels and offers an allowance for meal vouchers.

🛂 Eligibility: applicants must be eligible to work in Belgium, as LLLP does not sponsor work permits

How to Apply

Upload the following as one single PDF file:

📄 A two-page curriculum vitae

✍️ An answer to the following question, limited to 1,800 characters including spaces: "If you could change one thing in how education and training is accessed, delivered, and/or organised, what would that be and why?" Original answers are highly valued.

Additional documents will be disregarded, and failure to comply with these requirements will negatively impact the application. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. For more information, contact LLLP at vacancy@lllplatform.eu.