Detail of the vacancy notice
- Directorate: Directorate for Legislative work 2
- Management: no
- Unit/Service: ECON commission
- Grade: AD5-AD12
- Location: Brussels
- Deadline: 14 March 2025 at noon (Brussels time)
Your job and responsibilities
Interested in political, legislative and analytical work related to economic policy, with a specific focus on digital policy and artificial intelligence? Like to be part of a dynamic team, holding a wide set of responsibilities, and having frequent contact with the members of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR)?
As an administrator in the ECON commission's digital policy team, you are responsible for policy coordination, expert input, guidance and monitoring, and contributing to the legislative and political work of the ECON Commission. You will need to provide high-quality policy support to CoR members and promote the CoR's political messages in the policy fields relevant to the ECON commission.
You organise ECON commission meetings, meetings between CoR rapporteurs and MEPs and European Commission representatives, as well as other events.
You are also responsible for managing relevant studies, shaping the CoR's input to the EU's digital policy and as well as for fostering regular contact and cooperation with counterparts in other EU institutions and with external partners, developing specific (inter-institutional) projects in the areas related to digital policy and artificial intelligence.
Are you the talent we are looking for?
General abilities and capacities required
- Think with a critical spirit, analyse and solve problems pragmatically.
- Assess critically credibility and reliability of sources, data and information and use relevant digital tools to carry out the duties.
- Organise own work, demonstrate responsibility, identify priorities, take appropriate decisions and deliver results.
- Adapt to an evolving working environment, demonstrate commitment and adopt constructive attitude at all times. Remain effective and flexible even during period of heavy activity.
- Take initiative to achieve individual and shared objectives, demonstrate ownership and work autonomously.
- Learn and professionally develop to continuously enhance job performance and knowledge of the organisation and working environment.
- Work together with others in a constructive way by contributing to diverse and inclusive working environment. Demonstrate respect and courtesy at all times.
- Convey information and relevant opinions clearly and concisely both orally and in writing, facilitate interaction and engage effectively with others. Treat confidential or sensitive information accordingly.
Job-specific requirements
- You have sound experience in the fields of digital policy and artificial intelligence as well as how policy choices in these fields could impact regional and local actors.
- You have solid experience interacting with numerous inter-institutional stakeholders and external partners, including the coordination of common projects.
- You have strong communication skills and a thorough knowledge of one of the official languages of the European Union and a satisfactory knowledge of another EU official language. For functional reasons, a high level of English is required, and a good level of French is desirable.
- You have excellent analytical and drafting skills both in the field of policy analysis and in the domain of policy briefings and reports.
- You have a strong sense of initiative and a good team spirit.
- You have a university degree in an area relating to Economics, Law, Political and Social Sciences and European Affairs.
- You have a good command of IT applications and tools, such as Outlook, Excel, Word, Sharepoint, Teams etc.
Assets
- A very good knowledge of the EU institutions, policies, and the CoR, including a strong
- appreciation of the different political stakeholders at EU, national, regional and local levels.
- Previous experience related to the EU's digital policy development is a strong asset.
- Previous work and project management at the local and regional level is an additional
- plus, as is previous work with or for local and regional authorities.