The European Commission and the Council of Europe signed on 28 April 2009 the Joint Programme on “Strengthening Local Self-Government in Serbia (Phase II)” which will run until the end of April 2012.

The Council of Europe, responsible for the implementation of the Programme, seeks to recruit a Programme Manager based in its Belgrade office, to lead the co-ordination and implementation of the Programme’s activities – providing support in drafting and amending laws in more than fifteen areas such as basic local self-government legislation, fiscal decentralisation and decentralisation strategy – working in close co-operation with the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, the Ministry of Finance and the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities.

The Programme Manager will be recruited for the period from 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2010 (renewable, subject to satisfactory performance).

You are kindly invited to express your interest by 25 September 2009, by sending your detailed resumé and a letter of motivation under the reference 2009AO29 to cdm@coe.int