Directorate for Legislative Acts - Post E : Coordination and IT systems

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. 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, are responsible for the archives of the European Parliament, 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 present traineeship offer has been issued by the Coordination and Support Unit (CSU) of the Directorate for Legislative Acts (DLA).

The DLA’s core activities are the provision of drafting and procedural assistance to Members of the European Parliament and to parliamentary committees, and the legal-linguistic finalisation of draft legislative acts.

Within the DLA, the CSU has three main tasks related to the coordination of business processes and management of documents and internal workflows; the providing of a support function for the DLA Legislative Quality Units and the DLA Legislative Quality Assurance Unit; and the maintenance of all IT tools, platforms and databases within the service.

We value teamwork, openness and mutual respect, and pride ourselves with the generally recognised high quality and professionalism of our work.

As a trainee in the CSU, you will become a member of our small and multifunctional team and you will actively participate in the following core activities of the Unit:

• Understand the IT environment of the DLA;
• Get to know the EP IT-applications that support the legislative process, in particular the ones used by the DLA;
• Contribute to ensuring the proper functioning and continuous development of the workflows supporting the core DLA activities (preparation and publication of texts adopted and finalisation of legislative texts);
• Contribute to the Unit’s help desk function for the DLA staff, as regards workflows and the circuit of documents, use of Word macros and use of XML-based applications specific to the work of the DLA. 

Applicants for traineeships in the DLA/CSU should meet the following requirements:

• Have completed university studies in the law of an EU Member State;
• Have a clear affinity with IT, and more specifically with collaborative platforms, and XML based solutions;
• Have a very thorough knowledge of one official language of the Union and a very good knowledge of other two official languages of the Union, out of which one must be English at level C1. (Note: The original or reference versions of the documents handled by the DLA are drafted almost entirely in English and are used as a basis for legal-linguistic revision in the other languages.);
• Have a good knowledge of EU law.

No professional experience is required.

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.