Sustainability and Accessibility Policy Unit

The Directorate-General for Infrastructure and Logistics (DG INLO) contributes to the effective technical and administrative management of infrastructure and logistics (catering, removals, furniture, transport, etc.) within and between the Parliament's workplaces. Our DG is also responsible for managing the equipment and services necessary for the functionality of these buildings. Through their efforts, the staff of DG INLO provides essential support for the European Parliament's political activities.

The European Parliament’s environmental policies are driven by the EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) standard, with the aim of continually improving its environmental results in accordance with the EMAS Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 and ISO 14001:2015 standard. They include, among others, the domains of energy efficiency and renewable energy, energy performance of buildings, waste management and carbon emissions.  

Within the Directorate-General for Infrastructure and Logistics, the Sustainability and Accessibility Policy Unit is in charge of coordinating a number of tasks stemming from the European Parliament’s environmental policies. These policies and their application is characterized by a high level of complexity and detail. In the context of the development of its activities, the Sustainability and Accessibility Policy Unit is looking for a person with communication or data visualization analyst skills. The trainee will facilitate information flows between relevant internal actors (primarily the EMAS unit, different Directorates within DG INLO). 

At the end of the traineeship, the trainee should have insight for environmental reporting and monitoring in a public institution, as well as understand sustainability challenges related to building management, EMAS certification scheme and environmental policies (relevant for public and private sector alike).

The trainee would primarily support the Sustainability and Accessibility Policy Unit in developing written and visual communications related to environmental management, such as visualizing data on Parliament’s environmental performance in a form of graphs and charts. The trainee would also support the preparation of other content such as environmental reports, PowerPoint presentations, newsletters, summaries, guidelines etc. 

In addition, assignments for a trainee would include organizational support for meetings such as DG INLO environmental network, the preparation of presentations on the different projects of the Unit, and drafting of technical documents and minutes of meetings.

• Languages: English, French;
• You have clear writing and communication skills;
• You possess the ability to visualize environmental data in terms of graphs and charts;
• You have a good management of PowerPoint and image editing software;
• You have good organizational skills;
• You are pro-active and have an agile mind-set;
• You have demonstrated interest in energy, buildings, environmental or climate issues (preferable).