JOB DESCRIPTION

 

Working Environment

CINEA is located in Brussels and has a dynamic, dedicated, multinational team of nearly 600 people who are experts in their field. The number of staff will grow further over the coming years.

The Agency fosters a culture of employee empowerment and engagement, emphasising collaboration, respect, integrity, trust.  equality, diversity, and inclusion The Agency and its staff are committed to a number of core values including innovation, client focus, excellence, well-being, care, work-life balance, sustainability and working together.

Creating a sense of belonging is central to the Agency’s culture, which supports skill development and well-being through various initiatives. The Agency’s comprehensive onboarding programme, supported by HR, the relevant teams, managers, peers and a buddy system, ensures a smooth integration for new staff. We are excited to welcome  new talent to our Agency.

The open vacancies of CINEA are published below as well as on the Job Opportunities page of the EPSO portal.

Candidates interested in applying for the contract agent positions that are currently published must be included in the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) database for contract agents and have successfully passed the EPSO CAST selection tests or be included in the EPSO/CAST/2017 in the grade and requested profile (mentioned in the vacancy notice) for which they are applying.

Following EPSO’s recent announcements (How to apply vacanciesineu.com EU Careers (europa.eu)) concerning CAST-Permanent selection procedures, pending adjustments in the testing system, EPSO will be responsible only for organising the reasoning tests, but not for the competency tests. Hence, the need for the recruiting services of the EU institutions to adapt the selection procedure of Contract Agents accordingly and to introduce changes to the respective notices of competition for ongoing procedures (please see, in particular, the section on Eligibility criteria).

Consult the open vacancies

Title	Application deadline	Type of contract	GRADE	Location	Link to apply
Financial Officer – Operational Finance (Ref.: CINEA/2025/CA/FGIII/29)	07/01/2026 (12:00 – noon)	Contract Agent	FGIII	Brussels	Apply here
Head of Sector Operational Budget (Ref.: CINEA/2025/TA/AD7/30)	16/01/2026 (12:00 – noon)	Temporary Agent	AD7	Brussels	Apply here

Other opportunities

Active Reserve Lists

Candidates who have been successful in an external Selection Procedure organised by CINEA are placed on a valid reserve list which can be found on the following link.

Active reserve lists

Spontaneous applications

CINEA does not consider unsolicited applications – whether received by post, e-mail or fax. Only the applications submitted in the framework of a published vacancy notice are considered. We invite you to regularly check the Job Opportunities section of this website.

Candidates are also invited to carefully read the data protection notice on management of unsolicited applications

as it provides useful information about the processing of personal data and relevant rights.

Traineeship

CINEA selects trainees from the official European Commission Bluebook.

Please check the procedure on the Commission’s Traineeships Office page if you want to become a Bluebook trainee. Traineeship applicants are invited to read the Data Protection Notice on European Commission Traineeships.

Application for a Traineeship session

CINEA accepts atypical unpaid in-service traineeship on specific conditions.

Please read the rules for CINEA traineeship, Annex I-going with contract, Annexes II-A & B – end In service Traineeship in CINEA if you want to apply.

Application for Atypical Trainee session

Interim contracts

CINEA has a framework contract with several Brussels-based staffing companies for the provision of interim personnel services. For more information, please contact:

Randstad Belgium sa Rue des Princes 8-10 B-1000 Brussels Tel: +32 (0)2 643 4790 Email: inhouse_1230randstad [dot] be (inhouse_1230[at]randstad[dot]be) Website: www.randstad.be

AIB NV Wolvenstraat 23 8500 Kortrijk Tel: +32 (0)5/6 20 31 75; Email: infoago [dot] jobs (info[at]ago[dot]jobs) Website: https://www.mvovlaanderen.be/nl/aib-nv

Interim applicants are invited to read the Data Protection Notice on European Commission Interims.

Evaluation experts

CINEA needs technical and financial experts to evaluate the project proposals submitted under the calls launched by the programmes managed by the Agency.

If you are interested, check the possibilities here!

 

 

Data Protection

CINEA ensures that personal data is processed as required by 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. Candidates are invited to carefully read the Data Protection Notice on Selection and Recruitment and/or the Data Protection Notice on Inter-Agency Selection of Temporary Agents and Contract Agents as they provide useful information about the processing of personal data and relevant rights.

 

Legal remedies

If you believe you have been adversely affected by a substantial error or irregularity allegedly committed in a selection procedure you may use the available legal remedies.

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