Responsibilities
As trainee, you will play an important role in Eurocities’ daily work, with a focus on topics linked to social affairs. You will work with the senior policy advisor on social affairs. In this role, you will:
- monitor policy initiatives and developments at EU level on topics such as employment and skills, integration of migrants, housing and homelessness, and on relevant processes such as the European Pillar of Social Rights, European Semester and European Social Fund+;
- support with research, gathering and analysing data and good practice examples on policy and projects in cities in areas related to social services;
- analyse policy documents and draft briefing notes, as well as contributing to writing of policy statements and reports;
- attending and reporting on EU level events, especially at the European Commission and European Parliament in the field of employment and social affairs;
- draft articles for Eurocities newsletter, update Eurocities web pages and other communications-related tasks;
- contribute to the organisation of forum and working group meetings, both online and onsite;
- update members database;
- give general support to the social affairs forum team.
Profile
Eurocities will support you in developing your skills for entering the workplace. We have set out below some skills that would help you get the most out of this traineeship.
You have:
- a university degree, preferably linked to social affairs;
- basic knowledge and interest about social affairs trends in the European Union;
- basic knowledge about social policies in the EU, the EU institutions and the role of local authorities;
- a keen interest in local social policies;
- excellent oral and written communications skills in English, other languages are an asset;
- advanced writing skills;
- excellent organisational skills;
- problem-solving approach;
- good interpersonal skills for an international environment;
- experience with Microsoft Teams;
- digital awareness for online meetings.
You are:
- a dynamic team player;
- able to work independently;
- agile in a changing environment with the ability to juggle competing deadlines.
this job offer is not open for applications
