General Information
Type of contract
Traineeship
Who can apply?
EU nationals eligible for our traineeship programme
Grant
The trainee grant is €1,170 per month plus an accommodation allowance (see further information section)
Working time
Full time
Place of work
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Closing date
31.03.2021
Your team
You will be part of the Information Governance Division in the Directorate General Secretariat. Our Division has 60 staff providing the framework, policies, procedures and tools for ensuring that ECB staff and European citizens can access, and benefit from, ECB information and data on an ongoing basis. We are currently devising an enterprise information management strategy and laying the foundations for a knowledge management programme, which will take a holistic approach to managing the ECB’s information and knowledge assets.
In your role as Trainee of Archives and Records Management Support (ARMS) in the Information Governance Policies Section, you will be part of a support team of six members of staff responsible for coordinating and performing information and access management tasks, as well as for preparing and communicating reporting and technical improvements, while working closely with the Information Management Specialists and key contact persons representing all of the ECB’s functions and operations.
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 your gender, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability or other characteristics.
Your role
As a Trainee of ARMS, you will:
- support the quantitative and qualitative monitoring and reporting of information management practices, as well as the implementation of the ECB’s retention policy for paper and digital records;
- contribute to a wide range of operational records management and archival support tasks related to how information is created, processed, stored and preserved for future use, and in a highly specialised environment;
- support the Division’s information management projects, including digital archiving and preservation, external collaboration and the opening of the ECB’s historical archives to the general public;
- develop and/or test functional requirements of enterprise content management and digital preservation systems;
- support and maintain the ECB’s information management policies, procedures and guidance;
- develop and enhance guidance and training material to raise staff awareness and encourage adherence to the ECB’s information management policies and procedures.
This traineeship offers you an excellent opportunity to obtain experience in providing information services in an institutional environment and to gain insight into various topics related to the ECB’s activities. You will be part of a dynamic and multicultural team that strives for continuous innovation to make a positive impact on the lives of European citizens.
Qualifications, experience and skills
Essential:
- a bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in information, archives and/or records management or librarianship, or, if your first degree is not in this field, a postgraduate diploma, master’s degree or higher qualification – or enrolment in a postgraduate course – in any of these subjects;
- a working knowledge of the MS Office package, in particular Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook;
- an awareness of and interest in the role and functioning of the ECB;
- 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 understanding or working knowledge of (i) Enterprise Content Management systems, such as OpenText Content Server; (ii) collaboration tools, such as MS Teams; (iii) digital preservation software, such as Preservica; and (iv) and/or archival collection management tools, such as Calm and Adlib.
You are curious and eager to learn, and want to further develop your ability to analyse complex information. You are keen to collaborate with others, pursue team goals and learn from other people’s diverse perspectives. You strive to know and anticipate stakeholder needs, and will signal any need for change and propose alternative solutions.
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 keen to be part of our team and to use your skills and competencies to achieve the objectives of this position.
Further information
Traineeships are of six months’ duration, extendable up to 12 months in total.
Application and selection process
Further information on how to join us is available on our
website.The recruitment process for this position will include an online interview via Webex.
