Recruitment Notice PE/329/2025/S – Director (function group AD, grade 14) – Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services – Directorate for Impact Assessment and Foresight
Date: 2025-04-15
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: administrator, competition (EU), impact study, job vacancy, managing director, recruitment, research








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C/2025/2284


15.4.2025







            RECRUITMENT NOTICE PE/329/2025/S
         

            DIRECTOR
         
(function group AD, grade 14)
Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services – Directorate for Impact Assessment and Foresight
(C/2025/2284)


          
      

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 Parliamentary Research Services, Directorate for Impact Assessment and Foresight, 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.
The remuneration and conditions of employment are laid down in the Staff Regulations. Recruitment will be at grade AD14 (2). 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, in accordance with the Staff Regulations, all new members of staff must successfully complete a nine-month probationary period, and 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.

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 very much welcomes all 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 four 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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when the normal period of university education is at least three years, 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 one year (5).




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/.

(ii)   Professional experience required

Professional experience gained after obtaining the qualifications referred to above:






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twelve years, at least part of which must be in the directorate’s areas of activity, including:






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at least six years in a European and/or international environment, and










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at least six years in management positions in a large department.









(iii)   Knowledge of languages

Thorough knowledge (at least C1 level) of one of the European Union’s official languages (7) is required, along with satisfactory knowledge (at least B2 level) of at least one other official language of the European Union.
These abilities correspond to those specified in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. For further details, please refer to: https://europa.eu/europass/common-european-framework-reference-language-skills.
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 2 May 2025
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Candidates are asked to send, by email only, a personal statement in PDF format and in one of the European Union’s official languages (8) (marked ‘For the attention of the Secretary-General of the European Parliament, Recruitment Notice PE/329/2025/S’) and a curriculum vitae in Europass format (9), quoting the reference number for the procedure (PE/329/2025/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
             (10)
. 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 (11), in particular as regards their confidentiality and security.


(1)  See 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 the next indent.

(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, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

(8)  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, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.

(9)  
            https://europa.eu/europass/


(10)  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)).

(11)  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 PARLIAMENTARY RESEARCH SERVICES


DIRECTORATE FOR IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND FORESIGHT

MAIN TASKS






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Managing, coordinating and motivating the directorate and its units in the following areas: impact assessment and European added value, and foresight and technological impact assessment;










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Helping to strengthen the European Parliament’s capacity for scrutiny and oversight of the executive at the successive stages of the legislative and political cycles – from the evolution and proposition of EU law and policy to its implementation, application and effectiveness in practice – thereby ensuring the quality of law-making itself;










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Managing projects in the areas of responsibility of the directorate’s units;










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Participating in meetings of intra- and inter-DG committees and working groups, interinstitutional bodies, etc., and representing the directorate and, if necessary, the directorate-general within those bodies;










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Acting as authorising officer by subdelegation for the six units.




EX-ANTE IMPACT ASSESSMENT UNIT






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Assisting parliamentary committees with the scrutiny of the Commission’s ex-ante impact assessment work, notably by monitoring the Commission’s legislative and impact assessment planning, automatically providing initial appraisals of the quality of the European Commission’s impact assessments accompanying legislative proposals, and, on request, providing detailed appraisals;










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Assisting parliamentary committees with their own ex-ante impact assessment work, notably by providing, on request, substitute and complementary impact assessments of the Commission’s legislative proposals, and impact assessments of substantial amendment;










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Managing, in the context of the previous roles, tender procedures to secure the necessary expertise and ensure the quality of work provided;










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Providing a central source of information and advice within Parliament on impact assessment and related procedures, and promoting awareness, both internally and externally, of the role of ex-ante impact assessment in the legislative cycle, related inter-institutional commitments and Parliament’s activities in this area;










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Liaising with the other European Union institutions, as well as Member State bodies and other fora, in view of exchanging and deepening knowledge, best practices, and methodology relating to ex-ante impact assessment and Better Regulation more generally.




POLICY FORESIGHT UNIT






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Providing analyses on the future (foresight) for the European Parliament draft, and publishing strategic and policy foresight papers; steering strategic foresight conversations; organising related meetings with Members and events; generating and coordinating analytical work, based on analysis and mapping of risks, vulnerabilities, capabilities, opportunities and gaps of/for the European Union (with other EPRS entities);










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Facilitating future-proof policy-making (anticipatory governance) in the European Parliament; identifying and analysing medium- and long-term trends, fostering foresight literacy, promoting the thinking on and understanding of these trends, challenges and choices within the European Parliament, including through tailor-made training, and supporting Members in their policy-making responsibilities;










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Promoting the use of foresight methodology alongside the policy cycle, from ex-ante impact assessment to ex-post evaluation;










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Supporting Parliament’s contribution to the interinstitutional European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) foresight network, including preparation of the annual ESPAS Conference, providing the secretariat to the ESPAS Steering Group, and contributing to other ESPAS-related activities;










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Reaching out to, networking and cooperating with other European Union institutions, national foresight bodies and other strategic and policy planning organisations at European Union and national levels and with global partners, including think tanks and universities (including the Foresight Club).




SCIENTIFIC FORESIGHT UNIT






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Carrying out research in the area of science and technology options assessment and scientific foresight;










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Organising events/meetings (annual conference, workshops and ad hoc conferences, meetings with the Commission, etc.);










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Hosting the activities of the European Science-Media Hub, a platform for exchange, analysis and training to improve communication on science;










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Organising the work of the STOA Bureau and Panel;










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Overseeing internal and external communications;










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Developing relations with external experts, research institutes and universities; organising STOA’s external delegations;










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Managing the financial aspects of studies and events.




EX-POST EVALUATION UNIT






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Assisting parliamentary committees in their ex-post evaluation work by providing ‘European Implementation Assessments’ when they undertake implementation reports;










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Assisting parliamentary committees in their ex-post evaluation work by providing ‘Implementation Appraisals’ on existing legislation that the Commission’s annual work programme proposes to update or amend;










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Assisting parliamentary committees in their ex-post evaluation and scrutiny work by providing ‘Rolling Check-List’ studies and their relevant complementary digital interface, with key reference material on the Commission’s evaluations, review clauses, international agreements and the European Court of Auditors’ special reports;










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Conducting follow-up on the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making, in particular its Chapter III on ‘tools’ (impact assessment and ex-post evaluation): liaising with regulatory scrutiny board, conferences, etc.; assisting parliamentary committees in their ex-post evaluation work by providing other ex-post evaluations;










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Liaising with relevant European Union and other external partners on both substantive issues and methodological and procedural questions;










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Managing tender procedures to secure external expertise as necessary.




EUROPEAN COUNCIL OVERSIGHT UNIT






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Monitoring and analysing the delivery of the European Council in respect of the commitments made in the Conclusions of its meetings in the form of a regular ‘Rolling Check-List’ of commitments to date;










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Preparing thematic papers analysing the activities of and delivery by the European Council in specific policy areas;










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Providing systematic and timely briefings ahead of and after every European Council through Outlook and Outcome briefings;










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Entering the European Council’s conclusions into the European Council Oversight Unit (ECOS) Rolling Check-List database, which is now accessible to Members and services;










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Liaising with other institutions and bodies in the European Union and Member States (such as Permanent Representations) on substantive issues and methodological questions;










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Assisting the President of the European Parliament in preparation for European Council meetings;










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Preparing and organising events on the role of the European Council and its place in the European Union institutional system.




EUROPEAN ADDED VALUE UNIT






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Drawing up ‘European Added Value Assessments’ to underpin legislative initiative reports and support European Parliament legislative initiative reports;










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Providing analytical support to parliamentary committees in the form of ‘Cost of Non-Europe Reports’ on policy areas or sectors of strategic importance;










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Managing dedicated studies/initiatives such as European Added Value in Action studies and Stress-testing the resilience of European Union policies;










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Developing and promoting a consistent methodology for the analysis and quantification of European added value. Developing the ‘European Added Value in Action’ Briefing series on existing and possible future benefits of European Union policies for European citizens;










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Managing calls for expressions of interest and using the framework contract and negotiated procedures, with a view to securing expert advice when required;










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Monitoring the Commission's follow-up to European Parliament legislative initiative reports;










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Presenting studies and works at conferences and events, distributing them via social networks, as well as through links to Members’ offices, European Parliament liaison offices, think tanks, national ministries and universities.







ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2284/oj
ISSN 1977-091X (electronic edition)