European Central Bank - Traineeship in the Directorate Gen. Economics – Supply Side, Labour and Surveillance Division

Your team

You will be part of the Supply Side, Labour and Surveillance Division in the Directorate General Economics. Our Division comprises around 30 staff carrying out analytical work which focuses on labour market developments, longer-term productivity trends and other factors driving economic growth and potential output in the euro area, such as innovation, digitalisation, artificial intelligence and policy responses to climate change. The team also conducts country surveillance and cross-country studies, contributes to the Eurosystem macroeconomic projections and looks into economic issues relating to EU governance and policies. We also contribute to ECB publications such as the Economic Bulletin, Annual Report, Working Paper Series and Occasional Paper Series.

In your role as a trainee, you will be part of the Division’s Data Centre, which is made up of five trainees and headed by a research analyst. The Data Centre closely collaborates with economists across the Supply Side, Labour and Surveillance Division, supporting and contributing to divisional notes, briefings and publications. This can include producing charts and graphs on labour market and supply-side developments, helping with country monitoring and forecasting, building and maintaining datasets, drafting data commentaries and contributing to analytical projects in collaboration with the Division’s economists.

The ECB is an inclusive employer and we strive to reflect the diversity of the population we serve. We encourage you to apply irrespective of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or other characteristics.

Your role

As a trainee you will:

• help the team process data and produce charts and graphs; 
• participate in developing a database infrastructure using both aggregate macro time series data and microdata;
• contribute to quantitative analysis for economic and policy assessments; 
• help maintain analytical, econometric and forecasting tools; 
• contribute to the Economic Bulletin and other regular internal and external publications produced by the Directorate General Economics, in collaboration with other business areas within the ECB.