Legal trainee in the Library Secretariat

Join the Information Governance Division in the Directorate General Secretariat as a legal trainee in the Library Services team.

Your team

You will be part of the Information Governance Division in the Directorate General Secretariat. Our Division has around 50 staff members providing the policy framework, services and tools to ensure ECB staff can access and make full use of internal and external knowledge and information.

The Library Services team is dedicated to meeting the evolving information needs of ECB staff. We manage the services and tools that simplify the retrieval, access and use of external information. As part of the Information Governance Division, we are also involved in developing services that strengthen the ECB’s knowledge management and collaboration capabilities.

In your role as a legal trainee in Library Services, you will join a dynamic and service-oriented team responsible for:

• providing knowledge and information management services to support the work of the ECB, including managing our first-level enquiry desk;
• helping the ECB’s experts find and retrieve information from print and online resources, including specialised databases;
• supporting the organisation of events, workshops and meetings in the Library;
• contributing to the maintenance of the Library’s areas;
• promoting tools and techniques that can help ECB staff retrieve and use information;
• helping develop and maintain tailored newsletters and alerts on topics that are relevant to the ECB.

Your role

As a legal trainee you will:

• provide information services and legal research support to the ECB’s lawyers using the Library’s print resources and online legal databases;
• develop topic-based alerts and newsletters with filtered content to meet the business and research needs of the ECB’s lawyers;
• help design business solutions that support the ECB’s lawyers;
• contribute to the development and implementation of innovative Library services and projects, such as testing new AI tools or improving Library processes and systems;
• help promote and raise awareness of available resources and services.

The traineeship offers you excellent opportunities to gain experience in providing information services in an institutional environment and to gain insight into various legal topics related to the ECB’s activities. 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 bachelor’s degree or higher in law;
• an awareness of, and interest in, the role and functioning of the ECB, the European System of Central Banks, Economic and Monetary Union and European banking supervision;
• experience using document management systems and legal databases for research purposes such as EUR-Lex, InfoCuria and Westlaw;
• an advanced knowledge of the MS Office package;
• 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 degree or vocational training in library and/or information sciences;
• practical experience in providing information or knowledge management services;
• a sound knowledge of EU law.

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 aims of this position.

Further information

Initial traineeship of six months, with a possible extension to up to 12 months in total.