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General Information

Vacancy number
23
Recruitment type
External recruitment (international)
Type of contract
Fixed-term appointment
Posted date
14-Feb-2025
Deadline to apply
21-Feb-2025
Duty station
Strasbourg
Grade
B1/B2
Entity
Organisation-wide

Description & Requirements

Your Team

The team within which you will work (or The team you will lead), the <name of the team>, the <description>.


E.g. of a good practice : The team within which you will work, the Division on Safety and Security, ensures the protection of people and property at the Council of Europe, manages security and safety matters on a daily basis at the Strasbourg headquarters of the Council of Europe and coordinates security matters for the various external offices and centres. It is also responsible for implementing the overall travel safety policy for the Organisation and ensures risk prevention and respect for fire-safety regulations, in particular in premises receiving the public.

Your Role

As a <job title>, you will:

  • Xx;
  • Xx;
  • Xx.
Requirements to apply

You must:


You must also:

  • be a citizen of one of the member States of the Council of Europe and fulfil the conditions for appointment to the civil service of that state;
  • have discharged any obligation concerning national service (military, civil or comparable);
  • not be the parent, child, stepchild or grandchild of a serving staff member of the Council of Europe;
  • be under the age of 65 years.


Your application must demonstrate to what extent you have the competencies listed below. To help you doing so, feel free to consult our competency framework.

Key competencies
  • Managerial - Organisational and contextual awareness
  • Managerial - Leadership
  • Managerial - Management of teams
  • Managerial - Decision making
  • Operational - Planning and work organisation
  • Professional and technical expertise:
    • Xx
Desirable competencies
  • Operational - Creativity and innovation
  • Operational - Drafting skills
  • Operational - Results orientation
  • Professional and technical expertise:
    • Xx
What we offer

This job vacancy is for an international external recruitment.

You can consult the conditions of employment (salaries, allowances, pension scheme, social insurance, etc.) on the webpage What we offer of our Career's website. 

Applications and selection procedure

For more information on how we recruit, you can consult the page Recruitment process of our Career's website.

This recruitment is carried out in accordance with Article 490 of the Council of Europe Staff Rules.

The deadline for applications is indicated in the General information section of this vacancy notice (see above) and is fixed at 23:59:59 Central European Time (CET).

When applying, make sure your motivation shows how your competencies make your profile the best for the role.

Important information

As an equal opportunity employer, the Council of Europe welcomes applications from all suitably qualified people, irrespective of sex, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic or social origin, disability, religion or belief. Under its equal opportunity policy, the Council of Europe is aiming to achieve gender parity in staff employed in each category and grade.At the time of appointment, preference beetwen suitable people shall be given to the person of the gender which is under-represented in the relevant grades within the category to which the vacancy belongs.

Applicants with specific needs are encouraged to request reasonable accommodations at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact us at talents@coe.int, we will ensure that your request is handled.

The information published on the CoE’s careers website regarding working conditions is correct at the time of publication of the vacancy notice. Any changes to these conditions during the recruitment process will beupdated on our Portal and will apply at the time of the job offer. Our career's website is not intended to be exhaustive and may not address all questions you would have. Should you have remaining questions, please contact us at talents@coe.int