Recruitment notice PE/295/S – Director (function group AD, grade 14) – Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support – Directorate for Publishing, Innovation and Data Management
Date: 2023-09-08
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: administrator, competition (EU), data governance, innovation, managing director, publishing, recruitment








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8.9.2023   


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Official Journal of the European Union


CA 318/6








            RECRUITMENT NOTICE PE/295/S
         

            DIRECTOR
         
(function group AD, grade 14)
Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support – Directorate for Publishing, Innovation and Data Management
(2023/C 318 A/02)


          
      
1.   Vacant post

The President of the European Parliament has decided to open the procedure for filling the post of director (AD, grade 14) in the Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support, Directorate for Publishing, Innovation and Data Management, in accordance with Article 29(2) of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union (1) (‘the Staff Regulations’).
This selection procedure, which is designed to give the appointing authority a wider choice of candidates, will be conducted at the same time as internal and interinstitutional recruitment procedures.
Recruitment will be to grade AD 14 (2). The basic salary is EUR 16 569,31 per month. In addition to the basic salary, which is subject to Union tax and exempt from national tax, certain allowances may be payable in circumstances laid down by the Staff Regulations.
Candidates should note that this post is subject to the mobility policy rules adopted by Parliament’s Bureau on 15 January 2018.
The post calls for flexibility and frequent contact with people inside and outside Parliament, including Members of the European Parliament. The director will be required to travel frequently between Parliament’s places of work and elsewhere.
2.   Place of employment


Brussels. This post may be transferred to one of Parliament’s other places of work.
3.   Equal opportunities

The European Parliament is an equal opportunities employer and accepts applications without discrimination on any ground such as gender, ethnicity, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age, sexual orientation, marital status or family situation.
4.   Job description

As a senior official, the director will be required to carry out the following duties in the light of the guidelines and decisions laid down by the parliamentary authority and the director-general (3):






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ensuring that a large department in Parliament’s Secretariat, comprising several units covering the directorate’s areas of activity, runs smoothly and in keeping with Parliament’s policies,










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managing, leading, motivating and coordinating teams of staff; optimising the use of the directorate’s resources to provide a high-quality service (organisation, management of human and budget resources, innovation, etc.) in its areas of activity,










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planning the directorate’s work (deciding on objectives and strategies); taking the decisions required to achieve the objectives set; assessing the performance of the departments within the directorate with a view to ensuring that high standards are maintained,










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advising the director-general, the Secretary-General and Members in the directorate’s areas of activity,










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cooperating with the other directorates in the Secretariat, representing Parliament and negotiating contracts and agreements in the directorate’s areas of activity,










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managing and seeing through specific projects likely to involve financial responsibilities,










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acting as authorising officer by subdelegation.




5.   Eligibility

The selection procedure is open to candidates who fulfil the following conditions on the closing date for applications:






(a)



General conditions

Under Article 28 of the Staff Regulations, candidates must:






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be a national of one of the European Union’s Member States (4);










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enjoy full rights as a citizen;










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have fulfilled any obligations imposed on them by the laws on military service;










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be able to produce the appropriate character references as to their suitability for the performance of the duties concerned.














(b)



Specific conditions







(i)



Qualifications required







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when the normal period of university education is 4 years or more, a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies attested by a diploma officially recognised in one of the Member States of the Union,
or










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a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies attested by a diploma officially recognised in one of the Member States of the Union and appropriate professional experience of at least 1 year (5) when the normal period of university education is at least 3 years.




Diplomas, whether issued in a Member State of the Union or in another country, must be recognised by an official body of a Member State of the Union, such as the ministry of education.
Candidates holding diplomas issued in a non-EU country (6) must enclose with their application an EU-equivalence for their diplomas. For further information on recognition of qualifications obtained in a non-EU country in the ENIC-NARIC networks, see https://www.enic-naric.net/










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Professional experience required

Professional experience gained after obtaining the qualifications referred to above:

12 years, at least part of which must be in the directorate’s areas of activity, and including at least 6 years in a European and/or international environment, and at least 6 years in management positions in a large department.










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Knowledge of languages

Excellent knowledge of one of the European Union’s official languages (7) is required, along with satisfactory knowledge of at least one other official language of the European Union.
The Advisory Committee for the Appointment of Senior Officials will take knowledge of other official languages of the European Union into account.








6.   Tests

To assist the appointing authority in its choice, the Advisory Committee for the Appointment of Senior Officials will draw up a list of candidates and make a recommendation to Parliament’s Bureau as to who should be called for interview. The Bureau will adopt the list, and the committee will conduct the interviews and submit its final report to the Bureau for a decision. At this stage, the Bureau may interview the candidates.
The interviews will be based on the job description as set out in point 4 above, focusing on the following:






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strategic thinking;










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management skills;










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forward-planning skills;










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ability to react appropriately to events;










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thoroughness;










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communication skills.




7.   Submission of applications

The deadline for applications is:

12:00 (noon), Brussels time, on Friday 22 September 2023.

Candidates are asked to send, by email only, a personal statement in pdf format (marked ‘For the attention of the Secretary-General of the European Parliament, Recruitment Notice PE/295/S’) and a curriculum vitae in Europass format (8), quoting the reference number for the procedure (PE/295/S) in the subject line, to:
PERS-EPSeniorManagement@ep.europa.eu
The date and time of dispatch of the email will be taken to be the date and time of submission of the application.

Scanned documents must be legible.


Candidates called for interview must produce by the interview date copies or photocopies of supporting documents relating to their studies, professional experience and current responsibilities
             (9)
. These documents will not be returned.

Personal data which candidates provide for the purposes of this selection procedure will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council (10), in particular as regards their confidentiality and security.


(1)  Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom, ECSC) No 259/68 (OJ L 56, 4.3.1968, p. 1), as amended by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 723/2004 (OJ L 124, 27.4.2004, p. 1) and most recently by Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1023/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2013 amending the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union and the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union (OJ L 287, 29.10.2013, p. 15).

(2)  On recruitment the official will be placed in the appropriate step, in accordance with Article 32 of the Staff Regulations.

(3)  For description of main tasks, see Annex.

(4)  The European Union’s Member States are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.

(5)  This year of experience will not be taken into account when assessing the professional experience required under indent (ii), ‘Professional experience required’.

(6)  UK qualifications/diplomas obtained up until 31 December 2020 are accepted with no other recognition required. For diplomas obtained after that date NARIC recognition is required. In practice, this means that UK diplomas issued from 1 January 2021 must be accompanied by an equivalence issued by a competent authority of a current Member State of the EU.

(7)  The European Union’s official languages are: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish and Swedish.

(8)  https://europa.eu/europass/

(9)  This does not apply to candidates working for the European Parliament on the closing date for applications. Candidates are responsible for making sure that we are in possession of their complete application file (where relevant documents are missing from the HRM portal (Streamline)).

(10)  Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).




ANNEX
Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support — Directorate for Publishing, Innovation and Data Management
Main tasks

(Entity comprising 140 staff: 98 officials, 10 temporary staff members and 32 contract staff members)



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Ensuring the allocation and sound management of the directorate’s human and financial resources;










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Following up the directorate’s ongoing actions and projects;










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Designing and following up the directorate’s strategy and managing, coordinating and supervising the units within the directorate;










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Continuing the restructuring and development of the directorate;










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Acting as a central secretariat for the directorate;










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Setting and monitoring the directorate’s objectives;










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Representing Parliament on the Management Committee of the Publications Office and within the ‘Emerging Technologies’ group of the Interinstitutional Committee for Digital Transformation (ICDT).




INNOVATON, INTRANETS AND DIGITAL SOLUTIONS UNIT
+ Content and Engagement Service
+ Digital Solutions and Tools Service






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Drafting and publishing content for Parliament’s intranet in conjunction with the other DGs, and acting as webmaster for the site; providing editorial support and bespoke training sessions for webmasters in other DGs, and encouraging users to buy into the culture of innovation;










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Providing corrective maintenance, user-driven modifications and other improvements, as well as technical and user support, for systems in place to manage internal communications applications and applications supporting the activities of the Directorate for Publishing, the documentary chain and the Paperless Parliament programme;










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Working towards sustainable innovation by turning innovative and successful proofs of concept into scalable, iterative and incremental solutions;










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Developing expertise in artificial intelligence and advanced analytics;










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Keeping a close eye on technological progress at all times and identifying opportunities for innovation; assessing the potential of emerging technologies and, where appropriate, providing access to them with a view to speeding up their adoption within Parliament;










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Adopting a transformational approach by ensuring that editorial capabilities and digital solutions can be constantly adapted to keep pace with change and meet users’ changing needs;










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Promoting, stimulating and coordinating effective innovation in various fields of activity.




DATA MANAGEMENT AND DOCUMENT PRODUCTION UNIT
+ Data Management and Document Processing Service
+ Multilingual Document Preparation Service






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Processing and producing print-ready proofs of legislative and parliamentary documents such as minutes of proceedings, texts adopted, and written questions and answers; arranging for publication in the Official Journal (EUR-Lex) and/or on Europarl/Register;










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Producing the documents used by Parliament’s committees and delegations in electronic format; providing support to assistants in the committees and delegations;










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Processing and converting parliamentary documents into XML format; indexing a wide range of documents;










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Creating a data-management expertise centre to support the development of a data-driven IT model; laying the groundwork for a data-management policy;










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Providing preparatory, publishing, editing, layout and proofreading services in all the official languages of the European Union;










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Laying down a comprehensive and coherent open-data strategy; managing the ‘parliamentary open data’ project;










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Liaising with the Publications Office; fostering interinstitutional cooperation on data management and open data.




PRINTING UNIT
+ High-Quality Products and Logistics Service
+ Instant Printing and Delivery Service
+ Unified Printing Service






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Managing (including the PPP and ‘Enabler’ projects), coordinating, supervising and organising the finances of the Printing Unit and its services;










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Running the unit’s secretariat;










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Acting as correspondent for the EDIT Directorate (innovation, risk, data protection, security, EMAS);










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Assuming responsibility for working conditions within EDIT.




PUBLISHING SUPPORT AND VISUAL PROJECTS UNIT
+ Clients and Projects Service
+ Publication Automation Service






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Providing advice, guidance and support to clients on visual choices, products and services, deadlines and costs; helping to lay down and design clients’ internal communication strategies; coming up with creative ideas and putting them into practice; ensuring a high level of quality as regards graphic design and end products and services;










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Ensuring constant innovation by moving from traditional print-focused graphic design services to graphic design services provided by a professional, creative, in-house agency that is geared towards flexible, customer-focused, multi-channel digital publication and distribution;










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Maintaining various applications and providing support and training to clients across the various applications; developing and maintaining the range of products on offer via the Publishing Directorate’s online catalogue; automating and maintaining document production flows; laying down standards and procedures;










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Managing staff, machinery, premises and finances, EMAS.