Office Manager Milena Basta

Office Manager

FIC Office Manger is responsible for:

1. Membership & Stakeholder Communication, including drafting letters and notes to FIC membership and stakeholders; drafting and sending notes to the third parties regarding technical and administrative issues, communicating with the offices of respective members of the BoD regarding all FIC issues and activities; assisting with production of Annual Report, White Book, newsletters and other publications;

2. Office and Event Management, including document management system for electronic and paper records; organizing internal and external meetings for FIC staff ; event planning and implementation, including assisting from logistical, financial to implementation phase of the event.RSVP to events for FIC Staff and/or BoD members;

3. Finance Management, including monitoring of monthly budget expenditure, annual budget projections, maintaining records of membership fees and performing analysis of revenues, administering payroll and employee benefits and insurance.

Other duties of the Office Manger are to supervise duties performed by the Office Assistant and perform tasks as identified by the Executive Director, Communication Officer and Regulatory Officer.

Milena Basta

Born in Belgrade, Milena spent most of her life in Toronto, Canada where she graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, specialized in International Political Economy. During her studies she actively participated in international conferences of the Model United Nations at both McGill University in Montreal and Harvard University in Boston. After graduation in 2003, Milena moved back to Serbia where she started working on EU donor projects funded first by the European Agency for Reconstruction and later by the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia.

Before joining the FIC in March 2010, Milena worked on EU projects - Export Development Programme alongside the Serbian Investment Promotion Agency (SIEPA), Regional Socio-Economic Development Programme where as Grant Manager she assisted in the implementation of 58 socio-economic projects across 29 municipalities in Serbia and Municipal Support Programme for North-East Serbia, where as the Infrastructure Coordinator she was responsible for the financial monitoring of four large-scale water supply and industrial zone projects, whose budgets totalled €13.5 million in EU financial assistance.