EC looks for new Director for Directorate for Information Technologies
The European Commission has published an official recruitment notice for Director of the Directorate-General for innovation and Technological Support.
The President of the European Parliament has decided to open the procedure for filling the post of director (AD, grade 14) in Parliament's Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support — Directorate for Information Technologies. The basic salary is 12,312,60 euros per month.
Job includes the following duties:
- Ensuring the smooth running of a large department in the Secretariat comprising several units covering the directorate's areas of responsibility.
- Optimising use of the unit's resources and ensuring quality of service (organisation, management of human and budget resources, innovation, etc.).
- Setting objectives and monitoring their achievement, managing relations between a technical directorate and the administration and political authorities, and with (high-level) suppliers.
- Deciding on ICT technological and managerial strategy (choice of technical solutions, services offered, approaches to carrying out projects and supplying services).
- Infrastructure management, user support, administrative and parliamentary information systems development and management, engineering and project support, budget and finance.
- Advising the Director-General, the Secretariat and MEPs in the area of activity concerned.
- Cooperating with the various directorates in the Secretariat; representing Parliament and negotiating contracts or agreements in the area of activity.
- Chairing and/or representing Parliament in various forums and committees (IT Directorate Operational Committee, Data-Processing Steering Committee, IIC, etc.).
- Managing and seeing through specific projects likely to involve financial responsibilities.
- Carrying out the tasks of authorising officer by subdelegation.
The applicant must have the following qualifications:
- A level of education which corresponds to completed university studies,
or
- A level of education which corresponds to completed university studies
- At least 15 years’ professional experience gained after obtaining the qualifications referred to in the first indent, including at least eight years in managerial duties.
Applications must be sent by registered post by 28 May 2008 at the latest, to:
The Secretary-General
European Parliament
Konrad Adenauer Building
L-2929 Luxembourg