General Information
Type of contract
Fixed-term contract, which may be extended subject to individual performance and organisational needs
Who can apply?
EU nationals
Salary
F/G (bracket 2 - step 1) full time monthly net salary: €6,032 plus benefits, for further information see
what we offer.
Role specialisation
Operational Resilience, Operational Risk
Working time
Full time
Place of work
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Closing date
15.09.2024
Your team
You will be part of the Operational Risk & Business Continuity Management Section in the Directorate Risk Management.
Our team is responsible for developing and maintaining the ECB’s policy frameworks for operational risk management (ORM), business continuity management (BCM) and critical incident management (CIM), supervising how these are implemented and providing methodological support to business areas on related matters.
As the second line of defence, we produce holistic risk and resilience reports for the ECB, coordinate bank-wide risk assessment updates and associated risk acceptance procedures, conduct business impact and threat analyses and oversee business continuity testing activities. In addition, we monitor and report on the status of risk mitigation measures and take part in handling and following up on high-impact incidents at the ECB. We also organise CIM exercises and act as a CIM support team in crisis situations.
We are currently working on topics linked to emerging risks and threats, such as cyber resilience and third-party risk management, and exploring how we can best support from a second line perspective the digital transformation and use of artificial intelligence at the ECB. We are in the process of introducing a new governance risk and compliance tool, both at the ECB and the Eurosystem. Part of our work is geared towards strengthening the resilience of the Eurosystem and the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) as a whole; we collaborate with colleagues from national central banks (NCBs) to provide second-line operational resilience services and explore how to ensure comprehensive resilience testing at system level.
In your role as Senior Operational Resilience Expert, you will work closely with ECB counterparts from various business areas and hierarchical levels, including risk coordinators, business continuity leaders and members of the ECB’s CIM team, as well as with peers from NCBs.
The ECB is an inclusive employer and we strive to reflect the diversity of the population we serve. We encourage you to apply irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or other characteristics.
Your role
As a Senior Operational Resilience Expert you will:
- contribute to further developing, implementing and maintaining the ECB’s ORM, BCM and CIM frameworks, including those applicable at the level of the Eurosystem, the European System of Central Banks and the SSM;
- facilitate exercises to maintain/update the holistic risk profile of the ECB and the Eurosystem and conduct business impact and threat analyses and the associated reporting;
- deliver ORM/BCM resilience training and testing and assist in carrying out crisis management exercises;
- contribute to deploying, testing, operating and maintaining applications and software tools, such as the Governance Risk and Compliance tool or the alert and mobilisation tool.
The position offers you excellent opportunities to gain hands-on experience of operations within the second line of defence. 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 equivalent in business administration, operational risk, business continuity, crisis management, resilience, IT security, audit or another relevant field (see How you can join us for details on degree equivalences);
- in addition to the above, a minimum of seven years’ professional experience at expert level at the second line of defence in the fields of non-financial risk management, business continuity, critical incident management and/or resilience management;
- in-depth knowledge of non-financial risk and resilience management best practices, together with a good understanding of regulatory developments affecting the financial industry;
- a proven track record of experience in developing and promoting resilience frameworks (comprising policy, principles, procedures, methodological approaches and tools);
- good presentation skills;
- 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:
- experience in the fields of information systems security and/or governance, including cyber security.
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.
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 part of our team and to develop and use your skills and competencies to achieve the aims of this position.
Working modalities
We would be happy to discuss a part-time arrangement for this role.
Further information
The contract offered will be fixed-term limited until 31 December 2025.
Temporary appointments may be extended or made permanent subject to organisational needs and budgetary constraints. This may result in a staff member with a non-convertible fixed-term contract being offered a convertible contract in accordance with the ECB Conditions of Employment.
For additional information on this specific vacancy, you can speak to the hiring manager, Andreas Burgstaller, on +49 (0)69 1344 6492 between 14:00 and 16:00 on Thursday, 29 August and between 10:00 and 11:00 and 14:00 and 15:00 on Wednesday, 4 September.
Application and selection process
The recruitment process for this position will be conducted remotely. It will include a written exercise, a presentation and an interview.
If you are not selected for this position but are still considered suitable, you will be placed on a reserve list (see step 4 of
How we hire), from which you might be considered for similar positions within the ECB.
