Strategic HR Planning Unit

If you would like to gain experience in the field of human resources within a large multicultural organisation such as the European Parliament, apply for one of the traineeships in DG PERS!

The Directorate-General for Personnel (DG PERS) is broadly responsible for managing the human resources of the European Parliament's Secretariat, so that it can provide the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) with the assistance they need to fulfil their mandate.

More specifically, DG PERS manages the different groups of staff throughout their career, in areas such as:

• Selection, recruitment, entry, training, career development;
• Management of rights and obligations, salary, allowances, pension rights;
• Protection and well-being at work;
• Strategies to improve and promote equality and diversity;
• Management of trainees;
• Internal communication in the institution.

The Strategic HR Planning Unit is the main unit in the Parliament dealing with the alignment of EP Human Resources with the strategic objectives of our Institution, as set out in Parliament’s Strategic Execution Framework (SEF).

The unit plays the role of adviser and centre of HR expertise for the benefit of the Directorates-General and staff members alike, supporting the Secretariat’s evolution to more dynamic, flexible and forward-looking ways of managing people and resources.

We are a team of 11 people (8 colleagues are located in Brussels and 3 are located in Luxembourg).

The successful trainee will:

• Support the unit with the preparation and organisation of the yearly ‘Career days’ event for EP staff;
• Work on continuous development of internal (IT) tools (collecting, creating and updating content);
• Assist team members in organising workshops for HR colleagues and Heads of Unit;
• Research and analyse all kinds of HR data related to HR studies, key HR indicators, the annual HR report, the internal mobility exercise, projects;
• Be asked to support colleagues in the unit on different projects.

...a person with:

• Critical analysis and good communication skills;
• Accuracy, creativity, flexibility;
• A great sense of customer service;
• A passion for HR;
• Knowledge of Excel and data analysis;
• Technological savviness.

Given the unit’s multiple interlocutors, a very good knowledge of either English or French is required as well as a good knowledge of another EU language.