Traineeship in Compliance and Governance

Job Description

Your team

You will be part of the Compliance and Governance Division in the Directorate General Secretariat. Our Division has 25 members of staff in three teams: the Ethics and Integrity team, promoting ethical standards of behaviour within the ECB, the Eurosystem and the Single Supervisory Mechanism; the Governance and Risk monitoring team, monitoring conduct risk and strengthening good governance; and the Transparency and Access to documents team, dealing with accountability and transparency issues. Ongoing tasks and projects include advising ECB staff on ethics-related issues, coordinating the ECB’s responses to public access requests, requests from national authorities and enquiries from the European Ombudsman, and organising training and awareness activities in these fields of work.

The ECB is an inclusive employer and we strive to reflect the diversity of the population we serve. We encourage you to apply irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or other characteristics.

Your role

As a trainee you will work on ongoing projects with members of the team to which you are assigned, gaining an insight into the work of the Division and the functioning of the ECB. The tasks allocated to you may include the following:

• contributing to outreach activities by developing ethics-related training, creating and managing dashboards, and analysing/monitoring data;
• contacting and advising staff about conflicts of interest, the acceptance of gifts and hospitality, post-employment restrictions and other ethics-related issues;
• contributing to the assessment of requests for disclosure of documents under the public access regime or under the relevant framework applicable to national authorities;
• conducting policy or legal research and benchmarking exercises on topical issues;
• regularly monitoring and reporting on current developments in the fields of ethics, integrity, governance, conduct risk management and transparency at both the national and the EU level;
• contributing to the development of outreach and knowledge management activities and resources (e.g. e-learning, workshops and awareness campaigns);
• contributing to the ongoing digitalisation and automation of internal processes, which currently includes a new digital virtual assistant and a new digital case manager;
• putting to use and further developing your IT skills to help us maintain and enhance two of our main tools: a virtual assistant (IBM Watson) and an application developed using Mendix;
• reviewing data collection and preparing statistics.

The position offers you excellent opportunities to challenge yourself, to familiarise yourself with new tasks and to gain experience in matters related to ethics, integrity, management of conduct risk, good governance and transparency and in the use of technology in these fields. You will be part of a multicultural team that strives for continuous innovation to make a positive impact on the lives of European citizens.

Qualifications, experience and skills

Essential:

• a bachelor’s degree or higher in law or public administration, ideally from a university within the EU;
• a sound understanding of EU institutions, EU administrative law, and banking or financial law;
• a sound understanding of current trends and challenges in the areas of ethics, integrity, management of conduct risk, governance or transparency at national, EU or international level;
• a good knowledge of the MS Office package;
• an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Desired:

• a demonstrable interest in ethics, good governance, or accountability and transparency issues;
• experience in conducting legal analysis as a member of a team;
• experience with analysing data and visualising information, including using Excel or any advanced tools;
• experience in process analysis and/or optimisation.

You are curious and eager to learn, and want to further develop your ability to analyse complex information. You are keen to collaborate with others, pursue team goals and learn from other people’s diverse perspectives. You strive to know and anticipate stakeholder needs, and will signal any need for change and propose alternative solutions.

You are motivated to contribute to the ECB’s mission, to serve the citizens of the EU as a member of a public institution and to work with colleagues from all over Europe. You are keen to be part of our team and to use your skills and competencies to achieve the aims of this position.

Further information

Initial traineeship of six months, with a possible extension to up to 12 months in total.

Other details on the conditions applicable to traineeships at the ECB can be found on our website.

Application and selection process

The recruitment process for this position will include a pre-recorded video interview in the pre-selection phase and – if you are invited to participate in the subsequent selection phase – a written exercise and an online interview.

Further information on how to apply is available on our website.

If you are not selected for this position but are still considered suitable, you will be placed on a reserve list for 12 months from the closing date for applications, from which you might be considered for other traineeship positions within the ECB.

DEADLINE: MARCH 20, 2025

About the Organization

The ECB is the central bank for Europe's single currency, the euro. The ECB’s main task is to maintain the euro's purchasing power and thus price stability in the euro area. The euro area comprises the 16 European Union countries that have introduced the euro since 1999.