Sustainability and Accessibility Policy Unit

The Directorate-General for Infrastructure and Logistics (DG INLO) is responsible for overseeing the European Parliament's vast infrastructure portfolio, which spans around 1.3 million square meters of building space across Europe. This includes a variety of tasks that are crucial to ensuring the smooth functioning and sustainability of the Parliament's operations. DG INLO's responsibilities go beyond just building management; it is also in charge of a range of essential services such as catering, mail distribution, furniture management, and transport for Parliament Members and staff. This comprehensive approach ensures that all physical and logistical needs are met, supporting the European Parliament’s political activities in a sustainable way. 

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 responsible for coordinating several tasks stemming from environmental policies and the European Parliament’s commitment to ensure the accessibility of its buildings and infrastructure. These policies and their implementation are characterized by a high level of complexity and detail, as well as internal and external horizontal coordination. As part of its ongoing activities, the Sustainability and Accessibility Policy Unit of DG INLO is looking for strengthening its team with a person with communication or data visualization analyst skills. The trainee will facilitate the information flows among the relevant internal stakeholders (primarily the EMAS Unit, various inter-DG working groups, directorates within DG INLO, and other DGs). 

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 and physical accessibility standards (relevant for public and private sector alike).

Communication trainee for the Sustainability and Accessibility Policy Unit

The trainee would primarily support the Sustainability and Accessibility Policy Unit in developing written and visual communications related to environmental management and physical accessibility, such as visualising 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 management reports, PowerPoint presentations, newsletters, summaries, guidelines etc. 

On top, assignments for the trainee would include organizational support for meetings such as DG INLO Environmental Management and Accessibility network, the preparation of presentations on the different projects of the Unit, and drafting of technical documents and minutes of meetings.

• You have obtained/will obtain a university degree (level 6 of EQF or higher) at least three months before the starting date of the traineeship;
• Languages: English, French;
• Good clear writing and communication skills;
• Ability to visualise data in terms of graphs and charts;
• Good management of PowerPoint and image editing software;
• Good organizational skills;
• Pro-active and agile mind-set;
• Demonstrated interest in energy, buildings, environmental or climate issues and/or accessibility (preferable).

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.