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Animator in Brussels

Brussels Jacques Brel
CDI
Half-time

Your mission

Join a dynamic team in the heart of Brussels

Are you creative, dynamic and ready to get involved in exciting projects for young people? Do you have project management experience and good interpersonal skills? If you share our values of solidarity and citizenship, join us athostel J. Brel! We're waiting for you to give our young travelers a unique experience!

About thehostel

Gîte hostel de Jeunesse "J. Brel" is located in the heart of Brussels and is open all year round. It has 188 beds, 4 meeting rooms, a restaurant and a bar.

 The average annual occupancy rate is over 80%. The public is broken down as follows: 51% groups and 49% individuals.

Gîte Kaleo hostel de Jeunesse "J. Brel" is a member of HOSTELLING INTERNATIONALthe worldwide network of youth hostels.

Today, the team includes 17 passionate employees who work hard every day to achieve over 45,000 overnight stays a year (average occupancy rate 82%) and offer our customers a unique travel experience.

Our mission is to offer meeting places, accommodation and quality services that contribute to the development of young people through travel in a humanist spirit, and to participate in the emergence of a critical, responsible and supportive active citizenship.

Your function

  • Design, implement and evaluate actions in line with the four-year action plan
  • Contribute to the development of a medium-term vision for the direction of the residential and meeting center.
  • Example of tasks: finding partnerships to offer a philosophy workshop to groups on holiday, running the Citymagine game, supervising a workshop as part of HI for Peace and leading participants to produce something concrete around this theme.

Your profile

  • Good knowledge of the youth sector, in particular the Youth Centre Decree of the Youth Service of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, and of associations in general
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree (communication, animation, education, socio-cultural animation and continuing education)
  • Interest in social issues and support for the values defended by the association
  • Ability to organize work independently and coordinate it with the rest of the team
  • Initiative
  • Computer skills
  • Good interpersonal skills with target audience (mainly 12-26 year-olds)
  • Project management experience
  • Creativity

Your contract

  • Part-time permanent contract
  • SCHEDULE : Part-time (19h/week), evening and weekend shifts to be arranged
  • COMMITMENT : As soon as possible

Compensation and benefits

  • +/- 1396€ at seniority 0 (CP 302). Valuable experience.
  • Eco-cheques
  • Year-end bonus (13th month) and vacation pay
  • Meals on site

To apply

  • Letter of application + CV to be sent by e-mail to Fabienne MATTON fmat@laj.be by 11/04/2025

How to apply?

Interview process

1
Share your CV and motivations with us using the form below.
2
Call to get to know yourself better
3
Meeting in hostel or at headquarters
4
Surprise :)

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