ESMA is organising a general call for expression of interests for a traineeship position, without any specific deadline for applications. The aim of this vacancy notice is to establish a reserve list of suitable candidates for future traineeship positions that become available throughout the year.

The purpose of the traineeship programme is to provide graduates/undergraduate students with a unique and first-hand experience of the workings of ESMA and give the trainees the opportunity to utilise their knowledge and get professional experience in a multi-cultural environment of the EU agency.

There are two traineeship programmes available: project- based, where trainees work on the projects allocated to them or contribute to the projects of their team, and process-based, where trainees get the ‘hands on experience’ from participating in a daily work of their teams.

ESMA offers 6-month traineeship which can be extended to a maximum of 12 months.

This call will be open until 31 December 2023. All eligible applications will automatically constitute a reserve list valid for two years after the closing date of the vacancy.

When a traineeship role becomes available the representatives of the departments will assess the background, education and skills of the candidates and shortlist the candidates who will be invited for video interviews. The successful candidate will receive a traineeship offer. Other applications will remain on the reserve list available for future traineeship opportunities.

Main duties (project/process-based traineeships):

Depending on the specific domain, the selected candidate, under the direct supervision of the traineeship tutor, may be responsible for some of the following:

Support governance activities:

• organisation and support to governance bodies and decision-making processes;
• planning and reporting processes;
• international and inter-institutional cooperation and stakeholder management. Support legal activities:
• assistance in conducting legal analysis of files and dealing with (legal) requests;
• interaction with internal and external stakeholders on legal questions;
• research and analyse legal sources such as EU regulations, legislations, legal articles, treaties.

Support supervision activities:

• assistance to supervisory risk-analysis;
• assistance to the development of supervisory work programmes;
• assist in coordination tasks with other competent authorities in the context of the supervision of CRAs, CCPs, EMIR data reporting and data quality initiatives;
• assist in assessing applications for registration;
• assist in thematic and individual investigations into registered firms;
• assist in supervisory convergence initiatives, the organisation of trainings for National Competent Authorities. Support policy activities:
• support the tasks of the Standing Committees, groups and sub groups responsible for conducting or preparing ESMA’s work in each policy area;
• contribute to drafting, including formatting technical advice, technical standards and guidelines and recommendations under the relevant regulations and directives;
• desk-based research, preparing summaries of policy related reports;
• analyse and summarise feedback from stakeholders, for example in the context of open public consultations.