View Vacancy - Trade Adviser (HUN597)

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Department for International Trade roles (DIT)
Department for International Trade (DIT)

The British Embassy in Hungary is part of a world-wide network, representing British political, economic and consular interests overseas and is now looking for a Trade Adviser to contribute to
the Department for International Trade (DIT) Budapest team’s, the CEN HVCs as well as the Embassy’s Country Business Plan activities.

The DIT helps UK-based companies to succeed in Hungary and other international markets and it works with companies overseas to bring high-quality investment to the UK. The team in Hungary is part of DIT’s Central Europe Network (CEN), which comprises of 10 markets: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Main responsibilities will include:

  • To lead on activities in the defence and security field, including assisting UK companies to find high value business opportunities and partners in Hungary and carrying out market research as appropriate;
  • To lead on activities in the financial services field including assisting UK companies to find business opportunities and partners in Hungary and carrying out market research as appropriate;
  • To regularly review public and private tendering websites to identify business/export opportunities for UK companies in Hungary, and uploading documents onto the corporate system on behalf of the whole DIT Budapest team;
  • To carry out data analysis and data recording; events organisation; budget management support; and contacts database management with a view to supporting the team`s prosperity and high value activities.
  • Fluency in English and Hungarian (both oral and written);
  • College / University level degree in a relevant area or equivalent experience;
  • At least 1 year of previous work experience in an administrative position;
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work co-operatively with others;
  • Excellent IT skills, especially database management, MS Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel;
  • Excellent administrative and organisational skills; attention to detail.

  • Experience of stakeholder and customer management;

  • An understanding of the UK and Hungarian business environments, particularly the defence and security sector.

15 March 2018
Administrative Officer (AO)
Full-time, Fixed Term
35 net
Europe, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Hungary
Budapest
British Embassy
1
HUF
352,190 gross
2 May 2018

This is a full-time position of 5 days (35 hours net per week) for 12 months (3 month probation). 

Working hours are flexible and staff are entitled to time-off-in-lieu for extra hours worked.

The successful candidate will be subject to confirmation of a background check and security clearance. You must have pre-existing work authorisation for Hungary in order to apply.

Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy are subject to terms and conditions service according to Hungarian employment law.

Please note that the deadline for applications is 23:55 on the day mentioned in the above field "Application deadline".

We advise you to allow enough time to complete and submit your full application, since only applications completed and submitted before the deadline will be considered.

Please be aware that the deadline for submitting applications is considered to be the time zone for the country where the vacancy has arisen.

Please be aware that you will only be able to apply to vacancies for Country Based Staff roles with the British Government through this official tal.net site (operated by Oleeo). Jobs may be advertised on third party websites, however our adverts will always link back to the official tal.net site. If you complete and send an application through any other site, we will not receive it.

This opportunity is closed to applications.