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Your role
The Graduate Programme offers you excellent development opportunities, valuable experience and an insight into the ECB’s tasks and working methods. It could be your starting point for an exciting career at the ECB.
Your assignments can be in the following business areas at the ECB: Economics, Monetary Policy, International & European Relations, Macroprudential Policy & Financial Stability and Research. In these areas we perform analytical and policy work in the field of economics, as well as working to optimise the analytical framework and tools. We lay the groundwork for policy decisions and communications by providing high-quality analysis and advice. We contribute to the intellectual leadership of the ECB, represent the ECB in external fora and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders.
We will assign you an experienced colleague as a mentor to provide you with support, advice and guidance on participating successfully in the programme. You will also get a tailor-made training programme that includes a number of in-house and external training opportunities.
You will be part of a multicultural team that strives for continuous innovation to make a positive impact on the lives of European citizens.
Qualifications, experience and skills
Essential:
- a master’s degree or PhD in Economics or a related field completed between 1 February 2020 and 31 January 2022; alternatively you may be due to complete a PhD in 2022 (in this case the master’s degree can have been obtained before 1 February 2020) – candidates with a PhD, or who will obtain their PhD in 2022, will have a distinct advantage;
- an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Desired:
- a sound knowledge of macroeconomics, international economics, monetary economics and/or international finance, including banking, financial markets and financial intermediation;
- advanced knowledge of MS Office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint;
- advanced knowledge of time series or panel econometrics;
- strong programming skills, especially experience with MATLAB, STATA, Python and R.
You engage collaboratively with others. You pursue team goals and learn willingly from other people’s diverse perspectives. You signal any need for change by explaining it and proposing alternative solutions. You analyse complex information effectively and can evaluate different views to arrive at solutions. You know and anticipate stakeholder needs.
Motivation:
You are motivated to contribute to the ECB’s mission, to serve the citizens of the EU as a member of a public institution and to work with colleagues from all over Europe.
You are motivated to be a part of our team and to use your skills and competencies to achieve the objectives of this position.
Working modalities
This is a two-year fixed-term contract which we aim to start from 1 September 2022 and to last until 31 August 2024. It may be extended for one additional year upon successful completion of the programme. While on the Graduate Programme you can apply for vacancies that are advertised both internally and externally. Upon successful completion of the programme and subject to business needs, participants are eligible to be directly appointed to positions as Economists.
You can find additional information on the Graduate Programme on our website.
Application instructions
Candidates have to apply directly through our online recruitment system. Further, we invite everyone interested in this vacancy to attend the virtual European Job Market for Economists on 15-18 December 2021 during which ECB representatives will be present and informally interview selected candidates. To be considered for an interview at the Job Market candidates are invited to upload their CV via the European Job Market for Economists (EJME) platform at the latest by Tuesday 14.12.2021.
Any questions can be sent to join-us@ecb.europa.eu.
The recruitment process for this position will include a written exercise, a presentation and interviews.