Internship within the EU Governance Team and EIPA’s Scientific and Editorial Committee (SEC)

Internship within the EU Governance Team and EIPA’s Scientific and Editorial Committee (SEC)

EIPA - European Institute of Public Administration

Maastricht, Netherlands

Main tasks and responsibilities

The tasks during this internship will include, among others:

• Supporting SEC-related work, such as drafting editorial guidelines, organizing SEC meetings, designing and implementing SEC-related workflow systems, and assisting in the blog post/paper review and publication process with background research and editing work.
• Assisting with the development, coordination and delivery of a new EU administrative law training module and other existing trainings, contributing to the design and preparation of training programmes, presentations, case studies, supporting materials and readings, background research on conceptual matters and latest developments, liaising with external experts and participants, and facilitating promotion of training modules.
• Contributing to the development, coordination and delivery of an in-house training skills module for EIPA’s trainers and researchers by facilitating the design and preparation of the training programme, presentations, supporting background materials and readings, background research on conceptual matters, latest developments, coordination of activities and liaising with participants.
• Helping with liaising/approaching relevant external experts and participants to support programme delivery and networking.

Your profile

You can apply for this student internship if you have/are:

• Enrolled in, or have recently completed, a legal Master’s program, such as EU and/or International Law, ideally in combination with a more governance background (public administration, political science, international relations).
• Located in Maastricht or nearby as regular presence at the office is required.
• Excellent drafting, analytical, research and communication skills.
• A good familiarity with EU law, institutions and policy processes.
• Very good language and communication skills in English (C1/C2-native language). Fluency in Dutch, French and/or German is an advantage.
• Proactivity and constructive approach to challenges.
• Preferably the nationality of one of the EU Member States, of the candidate countries to the EU, or one of the EEA countries, Switzerland or the United Kingdom.

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