Individual Entitlements Unit - Post A: Legal traineeship

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 Individual Entitlements Unit:

• Determines and manages the individual entitlements of officials, temporary staff, contract staff, parliamentary assistants and pensioners, i.e. it establishes, codifies and oversees basic salaries and allowances by interpreting and applying the rules in force;
• Sets up and manages personal files.

During your traineeship, you will:

• Provide legal assistance to the unit file managers;
• Draft explanations for responses to complaints;
• Prepare reference guidance on the basis of statutory and legal provisions as well as Court of Justice case law;
• Draft synthesis documents on national law provisions for family allowances.

If you:

• Have a university degree in law or public administration or HR;
• Are motivated to acquire knowledge in the field of administrative law at EU institution level;
• Have good drafting skills;
• Are fluent in French and have a good knowledge of English.

Apply for the legal traineeship in the Individual Entitlements Unit!