Finance and Information Technology Unit

As a trainee in the Directorate-General for the Presidency (DG PRES), you will be part of a DG, which has a crucial role in a wide spectrum of the European Parliament's (EP) activities. Our DG is involved in the legislative process from the very beginning, when the legislative initiatives are submitted to the EP, and throughout the process, during which our lawyer linguists ensure the quality of the legislative texts, accompanying members and committees in their work. We are in charge of the organisation and documentation of the plenary sessions, and also deal with the relations with other EU institutions and national parliaments.

Furthermore, our DG provides services to the members, regarding both administrative matters and their political activity, such as parliamentary questions to the other institutions. We are also at the service of citizens and the public, dealing with public access to documents and relations with interest representatives, and are responsible for the official mail of the President and the Secretary General. The EP's protocol service, dealing with, among other things, the reception of visiting dignitaries and delegations and the preparation of visits outside Parliament by the President and the main EP bodies, is also part of our DG.

The main tasks of the IT team in the Unit for Finance and Information Technology Unit are:

• Coordination and drafting of the DG Presidency Annual IT Programme;
• Management of DG Presidency current applications and IT projects by attending steering committees meetings and follow-up developments;
• Maintenance, development support/coordination and help-desk function for ITER;
  Resolution of IT ad-hoc requests (software migrations, hardware issues) and facilitation of contacts with DG ITEC;
• Monitoring of DG Presidency IT expenditure;
• Guidance and support to the operational units on IT matters;
• Representing DG Presidency in working groups and inter DG "steering groups" on informatics.

Organize and execute the migration of knowledge base and document drafting tool in DG Presidency (from Confluence Collaboration Tool to XWiki).

Depending on your profile and interests:

• Learn and actively participate in the preparation of DG Presidency's IT Programme;
• Understand the EP IT organisation, particularly the governing bodies and main actors;
• Get to know the EP IT-applications that support the legislative process, in particular those owned by DG Presidency;
• Act as facilitator between DG Presidency operational services and the EP IT department (under the supervision of a Business Analyst);
• Assist the DG Presidency IT team and document the processes of the different type of cases managed by the team.  

A Bachelor or Master in ICT, keen to learn how a local IT team operates at operational and strategical levels in the European Parliament and  willing to practice being an Information Technology Generalist during your traineeship.