Next elections will take place in 2011. The date and place will be announced.

Currently oikos International is seeking to fill the position of its President for the year 2011 (starting October 2010, ending October 2011).

What we expect

oikos stands on the verge of moving its activities onto a next level. In order to advance oikos as the leading student organisation for sustainable economics and management, the oikos President commits himself/herself to working towards the following goals:

• You support the existing Local Chapters in conducting their operations sustainably
• You additionally support the foundation of new oikos chapters.
•  You continue the current efforts to build up a professional network of members, alumni and partners.
• You link regional key decision makers to the respective Local Chapters and facilitate networking opportunities between local chapters by organising the semi-annual oikos International Meetings.
• In your role as oikos President you coordinate international projects run by Local Chapters such as the oikos Winter School, Spring Meeting and Autumn Meeting.
• You represent oikos at international conferences and vis-à-vis oikos sponsors and part-ners.
• You coordinate the work of the oikos International Executive Board.
•  You help managing the oikos International website.

To achieve these goals you work in close relationship with the oikos International Executive Board, the oikos PhD Fellows and the oikos Foundation.

 

What the job requires

• You identify with the oikos Vision, Mission and Activity statement.
• You know the oikos organisational setup.
•  You have experience in event organisation in Non Governmental Organizations (oikos background is an asset).
• You have knowledge of sustainability issues.
• You are intrinsically motivated and you are able to work self-responsible.
• Fluency in English, basic knowledge of German.
• You are a team player with networking skills.
•  You have a sense for strategic thinking.
•  You are ready to familiarize yourself with TYPO3 (website content management system).
• You are an EU/EFTA citizen or have a working permission for this region.

 

Your term in office

1st October 2010 – 31st October 2011. The first months will be a handover and training period, where you will be Assistant to the present oikos international President. The same will be the case with your successor.

Your salary covers living costs in St.Gallen. 

 

I can only recommend all oikos members to apply for the position of the oikos International president 2010. It is incredible what I learned throughout this year. The great people I got to know. The skills I earned. The difference I was able to make. This year definitely opened my eyes for how the world works and what my role in it could be.

Katharina Beck, oikos International president 2008

 

What you will be able to get

The value you gain out of performing the job of the oI president totally depends on your own initiative. If you like your job you will earn an incredible high experience on many levels: administering an international organisation with around 1500 members, organising 3 international conferences, establishing contacts to a wide range of stakeholders and just seeing how you can really make a difference in a big international organisation. Your posterior employers will hardly be able to believe the high amount of tasks you managed to realise during this one year.
You work very self-organised and self-responsible. The freedom you have to realise your ideas is incredibly high. You will have difficulties to find a job where you can be as creative and free in your focus like as oI president. You really learn how to lead an “organisation of friends”, getting deep into decision making and organisational processes. You will need this knowledge throughout your whole life.

Get some examples of what former oikos International presidents took from their year:

• A great network in the sustainability scene you can build on for making a difference
• Leadership methods and skills
• Speaker, coaching, moderation and man-agement experience
• Creativity to invent new projects
• Knowledge in Marketing and Public Relations
• Experience in organisational processe
• Deeper sustainability knowledge
• …

 

Former oikos International presidents are working at…

• Vestas (Wind energy)
• CSCP (UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Col-laboration Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production)
• President of a Regional Centre for Expertise
• Institute for Social Banking
• or are pursuing their PhD studies at the University of St.Gallen.