28-01-2025 | di COOPI

Applications open for Project Manager and Financial Officer courses

The School of International Cooperation, founded by COOPI, has opened applications for the two professional training courses ‘Project Manager’ and ‘Financial Officer’ to be held in the spring. To apply, you must send your CV and motivation letter by 3 March: only the 12 most relevant profiles per course will be selected to participate.

The courses will be held from the end of March to the beginning of June, for a total duration of 140 hours, in synchronous online mode. At the end of the course, those who have passed the final exams with a high level of assessment and are considered suitable for the position may receive a proposal to work for about 6 months in one of the countries of intervention by COOPI or another organisation.

The courses are aimed at those who want to acquire or strengthen skills as Project Manager and Financial Officer, two key figures highly sought after by development cooperation and humanitarian aid organisations.

The two figures move hand in hand, as Gaspare Rinicella, lecturer at the School of International Cooperation and head of COOPI's Organisational Innovation Unit, points out:

 

the administrator, together with the project manager, is the fundamental support figure for project administration, and is in this sense an alter-ego of the project manager. He or she is a fundamental resource for the field, because it is he or she who is able to transfer in technical language, correctly, what decisions have been taken and what activities have been carried out in the field."

 

The School of International Cooperation focuses on professionalism, competence and practice, through active participation and continuous confrontation with the teachers. As Gibril Jarrar, a student in the Spring 2021 Project Leader course, recalls:

 

The course was full of exercises with experienced people who have worked for many years in the field of cooperation and who offered us the technical and practical tools to be able to implement and manage an international cooperation project.

 

The ‘School of International Cooperation’ was created to train experts in the field of emergency and development (such as project administrators, project leaders, heads of missions, technicians) and draws on the 60 years' experience of COOPI, for which training has always been of fundamental importance.

For further information and applications: www.educoopint.org