Job details
Contract type: Temporary agent
Contract duration: Open ended
Post: Administrator
Hours per week: 40
Function group / Grade: AD / 7 Job
Location / Country: Brussels / Belgium
Approximate timetable
Application open until: 13 January 2022
Timing written and oral tests: February 2022
Candidates shortlisted by: March 2022
About the EPP Group
The Group of the European People's Party (EPP Group) is the largest political group in the European Parliament. It brings together centre and centre-right pro-European political forces from the Member States of the EU, coming together to advance the goal of a more competitive and democratic Europe, closer to its citizens, and a social market economy. Its multinational secretariat provides political, administrative and technical support to its MEPs. Department The Campaigns Directorate ensures the strengthening of the capacity of the Group to amplify its political messages across the social media spectrum; to find new avenues of connecting with voters; and in close cooperation with both the Strategy Unit and the Outreach Directorate, to reach out to stakeholders, influencers, policy experts, and the wider EPP family.
Job description
The Social Media - Team Coordinator fulfils a supranational function within the EPP Group’s Secretariat and carries out the following tasks:
This post requires great availability (high frequency of meetings, irregular working hours), flexibility, a high degree of political judgement, an analytical and strategic approach, a high level of emotional intelligence, excellent interpersonal skills, discretion, adaptability to varying workloads, as well as the capacity for teamwork in an international environment. Suitable candidates must, amongst other things, be capable of grasping wide-ranging problems and of responding rapidly to changing circumstances. Excellent oral and written communication and computer skills are also necessary for the proper performance of the above-mentioned duties.
Job requirements
Candidates must have:
Compensation & benefits
General admission conditions
CANDIDATES MUST FULFIL THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS (art. 12(2) of the CEOS):
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General terms
The EPP Group ensures that applicants' personal data are processed in line with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, particularly as regards their confidentiality and security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC.
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES
1. RECOMMENDATIONS
Under no circumstances should candidates approach the Selection Committee themselves, either directly or indirectly, concerning this recruitment procedure. It reserves the right to disqualify any candidate who disregards this instruction.
2. SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS REQUIRED
Candidates must provide the Selection Committee with all the information and documents it needs to verify the accuracy of the information given on the application form.
Qualifications, professional experience as well as linguistic knowledge must be set out in detail in the application form and must be accompanied by supporting documents.
Please note that the Selection Committee will base its decisions solely on the information given on the application form and substantiated by the supporting documents attached to it. The qualifications and professional experience which are not proved by supporting document(s) will not be taken into account.
Candidates must attach to the application form the copies of the following documents:
Please note that the documents proving professional experience must be accompanied by an unofficial translation in either English, French or German.
3. HOW TO APPLY
If you wish to apply for this position, please:
Candidates are asked NOT TO TELEPHONE.
4. ADMISSION TO THE SELECTION PROCEDURE AND THE TESTS
The selection procedure will be organized on the basis of qualifications and tests (written and oral).
INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE APPLYING
The Selection Committee will draw up a list of the candidates who have submitted applications in the form required and by the closing date.
Candidates who:
will be eliminated.
The Selection Committee will consider the applications; draw up the list of candidates who meet the job requirements, and select, on the basis of previously established criteria, a maximum of 6 candidates whose qualifications and duly attested periods of professional experience best match the tasks to be carried out, who will be admitted to the tests. It will base its decision on the information given on the application form and substantiated by the supporting documents attached to it.
Candidates will receive an e-mail informing them of the Selection Committee’s decision on whether to admit them to the tests.
If, at any stage in the procedure, it is established that the information given in your application form is incorrect or is not substantiated by supporting documents, or that all the conditions set out in the recruitment notice are not met, you will be disqualified.
The tests will consist of 3 written tests to be carried out in English and an oral test. Only the candidates invited to the tests will receive detailed information on the nature, duration and scoring of the tests.
5. INCLUSION ON THE LIST OF SUITABLE CANDIDATES
The Selection Committee will draw up a list of suitable candidates from among those who have obtained at least 60% of the points for the tests as a whole (written and oral combined) and have obtained the minimum mark required for each of them. The best-scored candidates will be listed in order of merit.
6. CONDITIONS OF RECRUITMENT
Candidates included on the list of suitable candidates will be eligible to be recruited as the need arises in the EPP Group. Recruitment will be at grade AD7 and one post is to be filled in. The list of suitable candidates will have an initial validity of two years. It can be extended. If so, the candidates on the list will be duly informed. Short-listed candidates who are offered a job will in due course be required to produce the originals of their diploma(s), degree(s) and employment certificates for verification. Link to the online application form here.
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