Event Coordinator - HiiL

Event Coordinator HiiL, an advisory and research institute for the justice sector based in The Hague, is looking for a proactive young professional to join HiiL as an Event Coordinator: Is event and project management your passion? Are you interested in contributing to the organisation’s smooth run by being an active member of the Operations and Support Team? Are you able to prove that you are client and service oriented? Then join us as an Event Coordinator! You will be working on:
Organising and managing numerous small meetings (4-10 participants), around 3 medium (up to 40 participants) and up to 2 larger events (up to 200 people) with high level people.
Setting up and keeping relevant event and project budgets up-to-date.
Providing project management assistance and operations support.
Processing financial information, invoices and reimbursements.
Maintaining and continuously improving the Justice Innovation Lab space. Your profile:
Bachelor’s Degree in Administration, Business, (Hotel) Management or equivalent.
Up to 2 years of progressive working experience in event management; project management experience is a plus.
Up to 2 years of progressive working experience in developing and maintaining budgets; financial administration experience is a plus.
Proven experience in working with excel. rd
Proven experience in working with 3 parties (caterers, contractors, etc.).
Fluent proficiency in English and Dutch and preferably any other major world language (e.g. Spanish, French, Arabic). Your core competencies, skills and approach:
Strong client, service and result orientation.
Strong hands-on mentality.
Excellent communication, both verbally and in writing.
Strongly developed interpersonal skills.
The ability to promptly adjust to different contexts.
Will to work irregular hours when needed.
The ability to work independently and within a team. We offer you:
A full-time position in our office in The Hague, The Netherlands.
Unique experience with project, people and quality management in an international environment.
Coaching and support by the supervisor and colleagues.
Financial remuneration of gross per month (scale 8, CAO WVOI), €2.285 - €2.512 depending on the candidate’s profile).
Attractive package of secondary conditions (holiday allowance, end of the year bonus, travel expenses, telephone expenses, etc.).
Working closely with project managers; reporting to the Head of Justice Innovation Lab and the Director. Are you interested? Please send your CV and a motivation letter to Liubovi Bosenko, Human Resources Manager at [email protected].

For additional information please contact Liubovi Bosenko via the abovementioned contact details.

HiiL in a Nutshell HiiL is an advisory and research institute for the justice sector, based in The Hague, city of peace and justice. Our HiiL professionals are leading academics, from various cultural backgrounds, with many years of experience in places where justice is most needed. Mission | HiiL is passionate about making justice work. The core of our work is to improve rulemaking and conflict resolution processes. In today’s challenging environment that is impossible without innovation. We support clients and other stakeholders doing this together, across borders and based on the best available knowledge. HiiL is a not for profit foundation. It is funded by income from the services we perform for our clients and by contributions from governments, philanthropic foundations and social entrepreneurs. We provide our clients with |
Justice Strategy Advice to make processes more accountable, efficient and attuned to justice needs
Evaluation and Measuring to make progress visible, comparable, showing where more effort is needed
The Justice Innovation Lab for developing, testing and improving prototypes of new approaches Together with donors we develop and maintain the Innovating Justice Hub to untap the huge innovation potential in the justice sector, by helping justice innovators worldwide to be more successful and increase their impact. We do this through:
Mapping – Making the market visible: what innovators are out there and what are their opportunities and challenges?
Learning – Finding and sharing best practices and capturing trends
Connecting – Linking innovators, funders and problem owners
Strengthening – Practical support, so innovators and their supporters create more and better justice output Recent projects and clients |
European Union: methods for measuring access to justice.
Measuring access to justice in Mali (with Oxfam), Bulgaria, Cambodia, Senegal.
Dutch ministries: challenges and opportunities of private rulemaking processes.
Legal aid organisations in Kenya, Cambodia, Azerbaijan and the Netherlands: tools for providing basic justice care.
Ministry of Justice Tunisia: strategy for justice sector.
Insurance companies: strategies for grievance mechanisms. We work for | Strategic decision makers in governments, courts and regulatory agencies, NGOs with a justice mission, international organisations, innovators in the justice sector, multinational companies. HiiL has a joint venture with Tilburg University (Tisco research group on conflict resolution systems). More information about HiiL can be found on the second page and on our website: www.hiil.org