JOB DESCRIPTION

WE ARE

DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion is the DG within the Commission that develops and carries out the Commission’s policies on Employment, Social Affairs and Education and Training. Examples of the areas in which we are active include support for:

More and better jobs through the European Employment Strategy (which brings national policies closer in this field) and the European Social Fund (€9 billion per year managed in partnership with the Member States).

Free movement of workers and coordination of social security schemes which means that every EU national has the right to work and to live in any EU country and that people who move between countries are not disadvantaged in relation to social security including healthcare.

Social inclusion by supporting efforts to combat poverty and social exclusion, reform social protection systems, and assess new demographic and social developments.

Helping people develop more and better skills and to put them to use.

The mission of Directorate G is to coordinate the use of the Funds managed by the DG as effective instruments to deliver a critical mass of investment to support the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights.

The mission of unit G3 is to foster the EU’s job creation and social inclusion through the promotion of the social economy, of social and inclusive entrepreneurship and of financial instruments aiming to attract and steer non-public sector investments for social objectives. We do this through the development and implementation of both policy and funding support. Our main areas of activities include:

Implementing the action plan on the social economy, adopted by the Commission in 2021
Improving access to finance for entrepreneurs, in particular from under-represented groups, and for social enterprises
Steering the work on the Social investment and skills window of the InvestEU programme
Developing and monitoring shared management financial instruments funded by the ESF and ESF+
Developing the knowledge base on social aspects of investing by the private sector and contributes to the FISMA workstream on the development of sustainable finance in the EU.

We are an enthusiastic, supportive, and dynamic group of 22 people, enjoying our work individually and as a team and facilitating the integration of new colleagues.

WE PROPOSE

Unit G3 of DG Employment social affairs and inclusion is seeking to hire a Policy Officer to support the work of the access to finance/financial instrument team, in particular as it relates to social finance and investments. The position will consist of working on the following main tasks:

Developing policies and initiatives to improve the access to finance for social enterprises and other social economy entities across the EU;
Provide policy steer for the implementation of the social investment and skills window of the InvestEU programme;
Preparing for Financial Instruments and budgetary guarantees under the next MFF in the area of social finance, based on lessons learned from our current instruments and of market needs.
Support the development of EU financial instruments under shared management (European Social Fund +) in coordination with geographic units and develop synergies with InvestEU.
Contribute to the external communication activities of the Unit, in particular related to the InvestEU programme.

WE LOOK FOR

We look for a well-organised and highly motivated colleague with a strong sense of responsibilities and being a good team player. The job requires very good coordination, communication and drafting skills. A background in economics/finance would be an advantage as would be experience on managing financial instruments.

As regards languages, fluency in English (written and oral) would be a clear advantage as well as a good capacity to work, draft and communicate in French.

HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST?

With a view to guaranteeing equal access to all, the Commission recruits from an open database of spontaneous applications. The present call for interests aims at helping the recruiters to identify potentially interested candidates within this database.

In practice, to express your interest, please follow the subsequent two steps:

If you are not registered yet in the open EPSO database, please do so at the following address: CAST Please select under selection procedures for contract agent the CAST permanent profile that best suits your education and experience.
You should send your documents in a single pdf in the following order:
your CV 2. completed application form.

Please send these documents by the publication deadline to [email protected] indicating the call for interest reference EC-2025-EMPL-499166 in the subject.

No applications will be accepted after the publication deadline.

ANNEX

Selection
Am I eligible to apply?

You must meet the following eligibility criteria when you validate vour application:

Our rules provide that you can only be recruited as a contract agent at the European Commission if

General criteria:

Are a citizen of a Member State of the EU and enjoy full rights as a citizen;
Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by applicable laws concerning military service;
Are physically fit to perform the duties linked to the position;
Produce the appropriate character references as to suitability for the performance of the duties.
Have passed an EP50 CAST in the relevant Function Group for this position. At the stage of the application, it is sufficient to be registered in the EPSO CAST data base.

Qualifications:

(a) Have a level of education which corresponds to completed university studies of at least three years attested by a diploma.

Only qualifications issued or recognised as equivalent by EU Member State authorities (e.g. by the Ministry of Education) will be accepted.

Languages:

have a thorough knowledge (minimum level Cl) of one of the 24 official languages of the EU[1]
AND have a satisfactory knowledge (minimum level B2)[2] of a second official language of the EU, to the extent necessary for the performance of the duties.