EUROPEAN COMMISSION
VACANCY NOTICE FOR A POST OF SECONDED NATIONAL EXPERT
DG – Directorate – Unit ESTAT - Dir. C - Unit C2
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Contact person: Gerstberger Christine, Giannopoulou Eleni
Provisional starting date: Second quarter 2024
Initial duration: 2 years
Place of secondment: Brussels ✘ Luxemburg Other:
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Type of secondment With allowances Cost-free
This vacancy notice is open to:
EU Member
States
as well as
The following EFTA countries:
Iceland Liechtenstein Norway Switzerland
The following third countries: ….
The following intergovernmental organisations: …
EFTA-EEA In-Kind agreement (Iceland, Liechtenstein,
Norway)
Deadline for applications 2 months 1 month
Latest application date: 25-04-2024
Entity Presentation (We are)
The mission of Eurostat's unit C2 "National Accounts Production" is to provide the
European Union with high quality statistical information in the area of national accounts.
To achieve this, we:
- Provide the Commission with the statistical services needed to develop, implement and
evaluate policies, notably DG ECFIN for economic policies, DG REGIO for structural
policies and DG FISMA for financial policies.
- Provide the European Central Bank with key national accounts data for the conduct of
monetary policy.
- Produce quarterly and annual European accounts aggregates (for the euro area and EU),
in particular the headline figures of the Principal European Economic Indicators (GDP
accounts, sector accounts and employment).
- Ensure, in close cooperation with the National Statistical Authorities, the complete and
timely availability of national and regional accounts data; and maintenance and further
development of the transmission programme for national accounts.
- Contribute to the development of international statistical, methodological and data-
sharing standards in all the areas of its responsibility.
- Commit to the continuous improvement of our services and to the excellence in meeting
the expectations of internal and external users.
The unit has a pleasant and supportive working atmosphere. There are 30 staff members
presently who are highly dedicated and technically competent.
Job Presentation (We propose)
We are offering an interesting position in the Eurostat's Unit C2 which allows for impact
and innovation. The main purpose of the job is to implement the statistical programme,
ensuring the industrialization, standardisation and high quality of official European
statistics in the domain of non-financial sector accounts.
The future colleague will contribute to the following areas: statistical data production and
dissemination, time series techniques and analysis as well as quality assessment and
statistical advice. He/she will work on the validation of national data of non-financial
sector accounts which include highly policy relevant indicators for the EU and the euro
area on the households and non-financial business corporations sectors. More
specifically, the person will be actively involved in the technical cooperation with experts
from Member States and will ensure regular contacts with data providers, EU policy
users, ECB, OECD and other stakeholders. The future colleague will also be required to
prepare papers and analysis for the relevant working groups and represent Eurostat in
international groups.
Moreover, a large part of the tasks of the future colleague will be devoted to the work on
household distributional accounts that links national accounts (macro level) with social
statistics (micro level) and is a developing innovative domain with increasing and
significant user interest. The tasks include the contribution to the work of the relevant
Task Force on household distributional accounts, the development of the methodology in
view of upcoming ESA revision, the development of technical aspects of data
transmission (SDMX), the analysis of countries data and metadata, drafting of articles
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and other publications, participation at conferences and other international events, close
cooperation with Member States, OECD, ECB, the UN and Eurostat’s Unit F1 (social
statistics).
The job requires some flexibility (longer working hours maybe required) due to high
workload during data production periods. The team produces presently four news
releases of indicators per quarter. Peaks of data production and publication are
concentrated in the following months: January, April, July and October. The future
colleague will be involved in other unit activities that help to develop further the
production environment for national accounts.
Jobholder Profile (We look for)
We look for a person with a strong motivation for career in the area of national accounts
and some level of understanding of statistical and macroeconomic concepts. Prior
experience compiling or using national accounts or in time series analysis is an
advantage.
The candidate should:
- Have professional background in statistics and/or economics or similar,
- Have professional experience in macroeconomic/national accounts/sector accounts
statistics,
- Have possibly some experience in the field of household distributional accounts,
- Have a good notion about data treatment and/or analysis, including time series analysis,
- Have strong analysis, problem-solving and drafting skills,
- Be familiar with some statistical software tools,
- Be able to communicate with various stakeholders and defend the interest of the
institution,
- Be a team player who can take initiatives, is able to work autonomously and is resilient.
Eligibility criteria
The secondment will be governed by the Commission Decision C(2008) 6866 of
12/11/2008 laying down rules on the secondment to the Commission of national experts
and national experts in professional training (SNE Decision).
Under the terms of the SNE Decision, you need to comply with the following eligibility
criteria at the starting date of the secondment:
Professional experience: at least three years of professional experience in
administrative, legal, scientific, technical, advisory or supervisory functions which are
equivalent to those of function group AD.
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Seniority: having worked for at least one full year (12 months) with your current
employer on a permanent or contract basis.
Employer: must be a national, regional or local administration or an intergovernmental
public organisation (IGO); exceptionally and following a specific derogation, the
Commission may accept applications where your employer is a public sector body
(e.g., an agency or regulatory institute), university or independent research institute.
Linguistic skills: thorough knowledge of one of the EU languages and a satisfactory
knowledge of another EU language to the extent necessary for the performance of the
duties. If you come from a third country, you must produce evidence of a thorough
knowledge of the EU language necessary for the performance of his duties.
Conditions of secondment
During the full duration of your secondment, you must remain employed and
remunerated by your employer and covered by your (national) social security system.
You shall exercise your duties within the Commission under the conditions as set out by
aforementioned SNE Decision and be subject to the rules on confidentiality, loyalty and
absence of conflict of interest as defined therein.
In case the position is published with allowances, these can only be granted when you
fulfil the conditions provided for in Article 17 of the SNE decision.
Staff posted in a European Union Delegation are required to have a security clearance
(up to SECRET UE/EU SECRET level according to Commission Decision (EU,
Euratom) 2015/444 of 13 March 2015. It is up to you to launch the vetting procedure
before getting the secondment confirmation.
Submission of applications and selection procedure
If you are interested, please follow the instructions given by your employer on how to
apply.
The European Commission only accepts applications which have been submitted
through the Permanent Representation / Diplomatic Mission to the EU of your
country, the EFTA Secretariat or through the channel(s) it has specifically agreed
to. Applications received directly from you or your employer will not be taken into
consideration.
You should draft you CV in English, French or German using the Europass CV format
(Create your Europass CV | Europass). It must mention your nationality.
Please do not add any other documents (such as copy of passport, copy of degrees or
certificate of professional experience, etc.). If necessary, these will be requested at a later
stage.
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Processing of personal data
The Commission will ensure that candidates’ personal data are processed as required by
Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1). This
applies in particular to the confidentiality and security of such data. Before applying,
please read the attached privacy statement.
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()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, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p.
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