Coordinator â Europe, Government Convening (French speaking)
Coordinator â Europe, Government Convening (French speaking)
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Job Description
Department: Marketing
Team: Connectivity for Good Government Convening
Location: London
Position type: Contract inside IR35 1 September 2025 until 13 March 2026 Full-Time
What the hiring manager says
Our team brings together the public and private sectors helping them transform lives through access to mobile. We provide tailored programmes within unique environments to facilitate government and industry debate and knowledge sharing contributing to the advocacy activities the GSMA conducts on behalf of its members.
The ideal candidate will have a mature and resilient personality and is adaptable to a busy and fast-paced professional environment. Exposure to the mobile industry is not and we welcome recent graduates or students looking for work placement experience. The right cultural fit within our diverse international team is also important for us.
This is a great chance to be part of a team where your work makes an impact and contributes to the transformation of many aspects of daily life in both developed and developing countries.
About the Team
The team is led by the Director Government Convening and is comprised of a senior manager a manager and 2-5 coordinators working closely with operations content marketing and regional teams.
The team also manages the government attendance at the GSMA M360 Series of events MWC Shanghai and the Ministerial Programmes at MWC Kigali and MWC Doha.
About the Role
You will engage closely with external and internal stakeholders coordinating all aspects of attendance of government and inter-government representatives at the GSMA Ministerial Programmes with a focus on delegations from Europe.
Key responsibilities will include database collection and management invitation process and follow up onsite logistics Embassy involvement and pass registration.
You will be responsible for ad-hoc translation of documents and logistical information from English to French and vice versa.
Potential onsite support in Barcelona to deliver the event is typically one week but will be dependent on team needs.
About You
You must be fluent in both French and English and feel comfortable speaking over the phone and reading and writing correspondence in French.
You are self-motivated and committed able to work autonomously as well as being a strong team player. You have excellent personal organisation prioritisation and workload management skills.
Your attention to detail is exceptional and you can track changes and predict their subsequent implications.
You also have solid data processing experience and a high-level technical competence in standard Microsoft Office products.
You may have knowledge in dealing with government delegations experience working with CRM software and database management and professional translation experience.
You may have worked in an international environment before and are willing to travel internationally.
Contract type
Short term ContractorWorker type
Contingent WorkerWhat We Offer
Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile whatever your role. By joining the GSMA you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment working on global solutions genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities generous holiday allowances four additional days off for professional development and many others.
To learn more about the GSMA visit our career site our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.
Being You at the GSMA
We care deeply about diversity equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. Were keen to ensure everyone is equal represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values
Our values not only drive our culture they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven
We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability tenacity and commitment knowing that the challenging scale pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders
We continually develop and engage our expertise insight and creativity so that were always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority agility and nuance.
Stronger together
We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own fuelling each others successes and constantly asking how we can help.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day in every situation. When were at our best we are collaborative considerate and compassionate to others and we create a safe space for one another to thrive assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we arent at our best and the pressure is on we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
