VACANCY NOTICE FOR TEMPORARY AGENT SELECTION

About us

Eurostat, one of the Directorates-General of the European Commission, is the statistical office of the European Union. Eurostat's mission is to provide high quality statistics and data on Europe.

Eurostat co-ordinates statistical activities at Union level and more particularly inside the Commission.

Unit ESTAT.G.3 is responsible for providing high quality statistical information on Europe's international trade in goods (ITGS). The statistical data on intra-EU and extra-EU trade in goods is used by a wide range of Commission services to develop, implement and evaluate EU policies closely related with potential economic growth and employment creation. The European Central Bank uses the statistical data (in particular euro area data) produced by Unit G.3 for the conduct of their monetary policy.

Unit G3 is organised in four teams, respectively in charge of:

• Data production, COMEXT and international cooperation with enlargement countries,
• Aggregated data production (including monthly news release), data analysis, quality monitoring and dissemination,
• Legislation, methodology and international cooperation with international organisations,
• Micro-data exchanges.

The project involves the provision of assistance as a statistical assistant / domain manager in the team in charge of the production of international trade in goods statistics data production and, COMEXT, and cooperating closely with the statistical officer in charge of the unit's production, validation and quality-control tools.

About the role

Unit ESTAT.G.3 is seeking to hire one administrative agent.

The main responsibilities of the position include:

• Carrying out, as member of the production team, the monthly statistical production process, processing detailed trade data from Member States, EFTA and enlargement countries and liaising with the statisticians at national level with a view to publish high quality statistical data in a timely manner.
• Contributing to the ongoing development and implementation of validation rules, performing intensive testing on corporate and unit-specific validation tools.
• Contributing to the design and implementation of quality measures and controls in close collaboration with the team supervising the overall quality of international trade in goods statistics.
• Updating and improving metadata associated with data dissemination to ensure users have clear, high-quality documentation.
• Preparing and presenting documents and reports for relevant meetings.
• Documenting the unit's production, validation and quality-control tools and related processes, and contributing to their continued improvement, including the implementation of enhancements and their systematic testing based on defined test cases and non-regression checks.

In addition to these tasks, depending on her/his knowledge and skills, the successful candidate may contribute to other tasks under the responsibility of the unit.

Qualifications, experience and skills

We look for a dynamic and well-organised colleague who is interested in working in statistics, particularly in the field of international trade in goods statistics, as a statistical assistant / domain manager.

The successful candidate should have the following competences and skills:

• strong sense of responsibility, service-mindedness, commitment and flexibility and attention to detail;
• thoroughness in work, the ability to work autonomously with a spirit of initiative, and the ability to work effectively as part of a team, even under time constraints;
• clear and efficient communication skills, with a good oral and written command of English;
• ability to analyse statistical data;
• ability to work effectively with existing production tools;
• ability to analyse existing statistical processes and tools, identify opportunities for technical and structural improvements;
• ability to understand statistical processing requirements and translate them into clear business requirements and technical specifications, and to carry them through to implementation and testing;
• ability to analyse, debug, modify and document existing programs, including code developed by others; and
• sound knowledge and working experience with Oracle databases, PL/SQL, VBA.

Experience / knowledge in the following areas would be an advantage:

• International trade in goods statistics;
• Processing and validation of statistical data and metadata;
• Development or maintenance of data validation tools, in particular with rule-based validation languages or engines;
• EDIT language;
• Python language, in particular for data processing and automation;
• Analysis and documentation of existing software, including reverse engineering;
• Software maintenance practices, such as version control and regression testing.

How to express your interest?

You should send your documents in a single pdf in the following order:

1. your CV 2. completed application form.

Please send these documents by the publication deadline to ESTAT-HR-APPLICATIONS@ec.europa.eu indicating the selection reference

ESTAT/COM/2026/2074 in the subject.

No applications will be accepted after the publication deadline.

Eligibility

For eligibility please consult this page with all the information needed.