Directorate for Interpretation

The Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences (DG LINC) is the multilingual conference service hub of the European Parliament. Our mission is to enable the European Parliament to achieve its political objectives by providing linguistic, technical and logistical support to meetings and conferences. Our services support the democratic legitimacy of the Institution by helping the Members of Parliament get their message across in any of the official languages. We thus enable the legislative process and make it accessible to the citizens of Europe. This makes DG LINC a very dynamic, collaborative, and unique place of work, with opportunities for connecting with different actors across the Parliament. If you like challenges and are customer-minded then DG LINC could be a great place for you to do a traineeship. 

The Directorate for interpretation is in charge of the administrative management of staff interpreters, designs and organises interpreter-training courses, and supports multilingualism by organising and coordinating various activities and projects (accreditation and language tests, contacts with Universities, etc.). Our team’s role is to support all procedures necessary for the running of the Directorate, it deals with communication with all stakeholder services of the DG related to interpretation management, takes care of meeting document management, provides logistical support to multilingualism and interpreting training projects and supports staff and freelance interpreters’ for administrative issues. It is a friendly team operating in a truly multicultural and multilingual environment.

We offer:

We offer you the opportunity to work in a fast paced, multilingual environment at the heart of the European Parliament. You will meet a wide range of stakeholders and see what it takes to manage multilingualism on an unprecedented scale. You will gain an understanding of how the European Parliament functions and have the opportunity to attend parliamentary meetings and events. We encourage initiative and can adapt the work to your interests and skills. You will work closely with a small friendly team whilst interacting with a much larger population on a regular basis. The traineeship will provide you with a great professional network that can last a lifetime! 

Your tasks may include:

• Assisting Interpreter’s Heads of Units with the daily management of their teams (encoding activities of interpreters outside the interpreting assignments, as well as of the administration of leave and part-time requests);
• Assisting with the follow-up interpreter’s activities outside their interpreting assignments (HR matters, missions and travel arrangements);
• Supporting ongoing projects - by attending meetings, drafting minutes, analysing data, consolidating results, generating information graphics;
• Contributing to organisation of training courses by taking care of logistics and materials, liaising with clients, trainers, participants, collecting and processing feedback;
• Helping with the preparation of language adding and accreditation tests, as well as students visits.

• You are a trained conference interpreter or have an academic background in the field of Interpretation;
• You are enthusiastic about the European Project;
• You are eager to learn and to share knowledge;
• You are comfortable working with technologies (especially in the field of online training) and you are a great communicator;
• You flourish working in a team and are flexible, creative and dynamic;
• Fluency in English and/or in French (oral and written) is needed.