JOB DESCRIPTION

Secretary

in DG ENV of the European Commission

Job title: Secretary to the Clean Water Services and Marine Teams
Domain: Support staff – Assistants/secretaries
Where: Unit C2 – Marine Environment and Clean Water Services – Brussels
Function Group: FG II
Contract Type: 3b
Express your interest until: 21.11.2025 – 12.00 (noon, Brussels time)

WE ARE

Unit C2 contributes to Commission’s priorities for sustainable prosperity, notably the Water Resilience
Strategy, and supports others such as the European Ocean Pact. It also implements several European
Green Deal initiatives including the Zero Pollution action plan, the 2030 Biodiversity Strategy, the
Circular Economy Action Plan, as well as to the UN Sustainable development goals ‘Clean water and
sanitation’ (SDG 6) and ‘Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources’ (SDG 14).

We aim to ensure a better quality of life and have resilient marine ecosystems by developing and
helping to implement and enforce EU marine and clean water services policies.

Our mission entails working to deliver clean, healthy and productive coasts, seas and oceans; protecting
human health and the environment from the adverse effects of waste water discharges, promoting
water reuse as well as ensuring access to clean drinking water. We aim to do so mainly by promoting
compliance with the Marine Strategy Framework, Sulphur, Urban Waste Water Treatment and Drinking
Water Directives as well as the Water Reuse and Mercury Regulations. In our work to protect the inland
water and marine environment, we also ensure that the objectives of other polices, such as fisheries,
maritime spatial planning, the blue economy, shipping and offshore energy contribute to reaching
environmental goals.

We are organised in two teams, one dealing with marine and coastal issues and one with drinking, urban
wastewater and water reuse.

WE PROPOSE

An interesting position as administrative assistant, integrated into a friendly team of 3 administrative
assistants in the unit. This position offers valuable opportunities for reinforcing knowledge and
developing skills. The main tasks are:

• Provide administrative support to the Head of Unit e.g. manage calendar, set up meetings,
prepare correspondence, organize documents for meetings and briefings for missions, organize
travelling/missions

• Contribute to managing the administrative tasks of the unit, in particular support policy officers
in organizing expert group meetings, participate in meetings, prepare interservice consultations;
update contact lists, correspondence with stakeholders, dissemination of information etc

WE LOOK FOR

The successful candidate should have:

solid organizational and administrative skills
strong sense of initiative and responsibility

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• proficiency in Commission standard IT tools (ARES, BASIS, MiPS) in addition to Excell, outlook etc
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• an eye for detail, quality and layout/presentation
• very good English – oral and in writing

the ability to work effectively within a small team and with some degree of autonomy

The following would constitute additional assets:

• experience as administrative assistant in a European institution
• proficiency in other EU languages, in particular French or German

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:

1.

If you are not registered yet in the open EPSO database, please do so at the following address:
CAST Permanent. Please select under selection procedures for contract agent the CAST
permanent profile that best suits your education and experience.

2. You should send your documents in a single pdf in the following order:

1. your CV and 2. completed application form.

Please send these documents by the publication deadline to ENV C02 ARES ENV-C02-
[email protected] indicating the call for interest reference EC/2025/ENV/258227 in the subject.

No applications will be accepted after the publication deadline.