JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Policy Officer – Relations with European Court of Auditors (ECA) – Assurance coordination Domain: Economic, Finance and Statistics

Where: Unit R.l – “HR Correspondent, document management, data protection and assurance coordination”, Brussels

Function Group: FG IV Contract Type: 3b

Express your interest until: 26.11.2025 – 12.00 (noon, Brussels time)

WE ARE

The Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) strives to improve the economic wellbeing of EU citizens. It has been assigned several major new responsibilities under Next Generation EU and the 2021 – 2027 MFF to support the recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. A key instrument for achieving that goal is the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), offering financial support to Member States for investments and reforms linked to EU priorities. Having the lead as the Authorising Officer by Delegation, DG ECFIN is implementing this ambitious and novel instrument together with 5G REFORM.

Within DG ECFIN, Unit R1 is amongst other activities tasked with the co-ordination of the assurance on expenditure from the EU funding programmes managed by DG ECFIN. To this end Unit R1 coordinates the relations with the European Court of Auditors (ECA) and contributes to the European Parliament’s annual discharge procedure. Unit R1 coordinates also the relations with the European Commission’s Internal Audit Service (IAS), the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) on anti-fraud matters. Unit R1 is furthermore in charge of inter alia Internal Control and the Strategic Planning and Programming cycle, including the Annual Activity Report, which constitutes an important building block for the College’s overall political responsibility for the management of the EU budget.

WE PROPOSE

Under the leadership of the Head of Unit and the Deputy Head of Unit Rl, the jobholder will work, as part of a team, on the preparation of DG ECFIN’s Annual Activity Report, on the Commission’s reply to the ECA annual report (RRF Chapter), and on the European Parliament’s annual discharge procedure.

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.

This challenging position, with important coordination responsibilities and requiring good political judgement, offers high visibility and a unique opportunity to contribute to the success of the RRF, a Commission’s flagship instrument, and to gain horizontal knowledge of the control issues linked to a performance-based instrument. The work involves frequent contacts with horizontal and geographical units both in DG ECFIN and SG REFORM as well as colleagues in the horizontal services, i.e. DG BUDG and Secretariat-General.

The successful candidate will in particular carry out, as part of a team, the following main tasks:

• Preparation of DG ECFIN Annual Activity Report (AAR) and the Declaration of Assurance signed by the Director-General, in close coordination with DG ECFIN’s units and DG BUDG.
• Preparation of the Commission’s reply to the chapter of the ECA’s annual report dedicated to the RRF, and preparation of the pre-adversarial and adversarial procedure with the ECA, in close coordination with horizontal units from DG ECFIN and SG REFORM, and DG BUDG.
• Preparation of the European Parliament’s discharge procedure for DG ECFIN including preparation of policy briefings for Commissioners’ and Directors-General’ hearings and reporting in meetings with the European Parliament (CONT committee), in close coordination with horizontal units from DG ECFIN and SG REFORM.

The jobholder might over time be involved in other strategic files of Unit Rl.

WE LOOK FOR

We are looking for a dynamic, well-organised and highly motivated candidate, capable of working both independently and as part of a team. Applicants should have a structured, but flexible and adaptable approach to work, excellent analytical and drafting skills, and ability to organise and coordinate work ensuring that tight deadlines are met.

The candidate must possess a service-oriented approach, with a proven capacity to coordinate complex files with a myriad of actors across the Commission given that the job will require close co-operation and co-ordination with other units within DG ECFIN as well as colleagues from SG- REFORM and central services of the Commission. Professional experience in policy-analysis and/or policy making in European Institutions would be an asset.

HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST?

2. You should send your documents in a single pdf in the following order:
3. your CV 2. completed application form.

Please send these documents by the publication deadline to ECFIN-HR- [email protected] indicating the call for interest reference EC/2025/ECFIN/455682 in the subject.

No applications will be accepted after the publication deadline.