Junior Analyst – Environment and Social Safeguards

Job Description

Grade A1-A2

Location: Paris, France

Salary: €68,672 to €87,748 tax-free + Benefits

Contract: One year fixed-term contract with possibility of renewal

Closing date: 30 June 2024

Help us assess the social and environmental impact of our projects in Europe

Do you have a strong interest in identifying, managing and monitoring the social and environmental aspects of infrastructure projects, ideally backed by relevant professional experience? Are you familiar with public and private sector operations in Eastern and Central Europe? Then you can develop policies, guidelines and procedures to embed social safeguards in key investments for a pan-European development bank with a unique mandate to reform and reshape.

Bringing together 43 member countries, the CEB finances and responds to emergency situations and actively enhances the living conditions of the most disadvantaged groups. Strengthening social cohesion and building thriving communities in Europe, we drive inclusive growth, bolster economic sustainability – and create exceptional careers.

At the heart of our Technical Assessment & Monitoring Directorate, you will contribute to develop new methodological frameworks to assess the impact of our interventions on gender equality, vulnerable populations, migration and human rights. Under the supervision of Senior Technical Advisors, you will be asked to evaluate the social and environmental risks and significantly strengthen our due diligence process, ensuring we remain in line with evolving best practice and maximise the positive change we deliver for the people of Europe.

To be equal to this exceptional challenge, you should bring

• A postgraduate qualification in social science, social studies, political science, gender studies, community development, planning, applied economics, law or a related discipline.
• A sound professional background, ideally gained within a multilateral or national financial institution.
• Excellent analytical skills, sound judgement and superb problem-solving ability.
• Broad knowledge of international standards relating to the environment and social safeguarding.
• Proven ability to manage data to develop financial models and build scenarios.
• Excellent command of the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and ideally database and graphics software.
• Excellent command of one of the two CEB official languages (English and French), both oral and written, and knowledge of the other, with a commitment to reach a good working level.

Applications should be made in English or French using the Council of Europe Development Bank online application system at https://ceb.profils.org before the deadline of 30 June 2024, midnight Paris time.

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About the Organization

The CEB's mandate The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) is a multilateral development bank with a social vocation. Established on 16 April 1956 in order to bring solutions to the problems of refugees, its scope of action has progressively widened to other sectors of action directly contributing to strengthening social cohesion in Europe. The CEB represents a major instrument of the policy of solidarity in Europe, in order to help its 40 Member States achieve sustainable and equitable growth: it thus participates in financing social projects, responds to emergency situations and, in so doing, contributes to improving the living conditions of the most disadvantaged population groups. The CEB contributes to the implementation of socially oriented investment projects through three sectoral lines of action, namely: strengthening social integration managing the environment supporting public infrastructure with a social vocation The CEB enjoys a unique and original position in Europe, both on account of the nature of the projects it finances, the sectors in which it undertakes its action and the geographic scope of its shareholder base. The CEB and the Council of Europe The CEB is based on a Partial Agreement among Council of Europe Member States and, according to its Articles of Agreement, is subject to the Council's overall authority. Signed on 16 April 1956 by eight countries, the Bank is the first of the Partial Agreements to have been concluded. The CEB thus operates within the framework of the Council of Europe and supports its priorities. It is nevertheless a separate legal entity and financially independent. As evidence of these institutional links, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe issues an opinion on admissibility in terms of compliance with the Council of Europe’s political and social objectives for all the projects that the Bank submits to its Administrative Council for approval. These links are also highlighted by the impact that the different Council of Europe Summits, held at the highest level, have had on the CEB’s development. For example, at the outcome of the Third Council of Europe Summit (Warsaw, May 2005), Heads of State and Government expressed their attachment to the CEB's action on behalf of populations in distress and of social cohesion. They also invited the Bank to widen its role to facilitate the consolidation of democracy, promotion of the rule of law and respect for human rights. Over and above the numerous instances of day-to-day interaction, in 2008, a Human Rights Trust Account endowed with two million euros was set up between the CEB, the Council of Europe and Norway. Strategy The CEB carries out its mission within the strategic framework of a formal "Development Plan" that describes the logic underpinning its action and sets forth guidelines for the activity in the medium term in relation to the operational context within which the Bank operates. The current Development Plan covers the period 2010-2014.