Learning and Development Unit - Post D: Learn.MEP Team

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, diversity and inclusion;
• Management of trainees;
• Internal communication in the institution.

We are the Learning and Development Unit.

Our mission is to offer learning and development (L&D) solutions to a highly qualified workforce that support MEPs. We believe that L&D plays a key role in the European Parliament to ensure a resilient and effective European democracy.

This traineeship will offer you the opportunity to explore the L&D activities in the EP.

You will be part of a team of professionals offering learning solutions to people working in the European Parliament. You will be helping our clients - MEPs, departments, individual learners - strengthen their skills, manage change and increase motivation within their teams.

Learn.MEP is a small team. We are responsible for managing the learning offer for Members of the European Parliament. We are service-oriented and try to assist the MEPs as much as we can. We are always open for better solutions and innovation. We work a lot and we have fun doing it.

You will be part of our team that manages the learning offer for Members. Your most important tasks will be:

• Answering Members' questions related to their mandatory and other training opportunities;
• Helping with the planning and organising of mandatory training on "good office management and preventing conflict and harassment" that all Members have to do within six months of starting their mandate. Every year some Members leave the EP and some new Members arrive and you will be working with them;
• Managing Members' language learning; we offer them courses in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish in-house that need to be organised;
• Managing the catalogue for Members' learning, from how legislation works over communication to the preparation of election observation missions - providing assistance, statistics, freshening up the offer;
• Manage one or several functional mailboxes, put order in the archive, make sure no call and no mail is unanswered.

Our small team manages also some of the offer for EP staff and you will be:

• Co-delivering the "Back to school - back to university" training course for staff who want to go back to their own school or university and talk about their work in the EP;
• Managing various training courses as course manager;
• Researching historical facts in the EP that we want to include in future training sessions (important moments, interesting personalities etc.) and
• Assisting other teams in the unit with their work if need be.

Ideally, you are experienced in one or several of the following fields: service, client support, learning, education, front-office, managing funds or accounting, project management (whether you have handled complaints for a large furniture shop or tutored other students, please mention your experiences in your CV! We want to know!);

• Someone who meets deadlines and finishes tasks;
• Someone who is organised and likes to create structure;
• Pro-active - you look for things that can be done or improved;
• You analyse, propose an action, get your solution validated and then transform it into reality;
• A positive thinker who tries to find solutions first and sees obstacles as a challenge, not as something that stops you;
• Interested in communication and public speaking as well as in the organisation of large events and in the designing of training courses;
• Multilingual: You need to be fluent in English (written and spoken production), and please mention all other languages that you can work in, as we work with Members, you will be able to use all EU languages;
• Someone who does not lose the overview - but is a stickler for detail when needed;
• Someone who is creative.

In your letter of motivation, please answer the following:

1. Why are you interested in this specific traineeship out of more than 450 on offer?
2. What qualifies you for this job?
3. Tell us what you are proud of, whether it is related to studies or other!

DISCLAIMER: We know that you can use an AI tool to write your CV and motivation letter. We do not recommend you to use the AI text without reflection. We really want to learn about you, your passions, your personality. If you must, let the AI help you, but do not let it take the lead! (Honestly, those texts are pretty horrible to read.)

The European Parliament is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace. We welcome all candidates, regardless of their geographical, racial or ethnic origin, political or religious beliefs, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, civil status, or family situation.