Individual Entitlements Unit - Post B: HR 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 as regards primary rights (family allowances, expatriation and foreign residence allowances, daily subsistence allowance) and secondary rights (installation and resettlement allowances, removal expenses, place of origin).

During your traineeship, you will:

• Be the reference contact for Parliament’s colleagues in order to assist them in their administrative procedures relating to secondary rights;
• Interpret and apply the rules of the Staff Regulations and its annexes;
• Insert data into GENDOC and HRM Portal applications;
• Draft the decisions submitted for signature to the appointing authority;
• Follow up on approved decisions under the direction of the secondary rights coordinator, in particular with the relevant units of the Parliament (e.g. remuneration, pensions, treasury).

If you:

• Have a relevant university degree (e.g. in public administration, human resources, law or sociology);
• Are motivated to acquire knowledge in the field of administrative rights at the European institutional level;
• Have good drafting skills;
• Are fluent in French and/or in English.

Apply for the HR traineeship in the Individual Entitlements Unit!