Eif Trainee

**EIF Posting**:
The **European Investment Fund** **(EIF)** is seeking to recruit for its **Research & Market Analysis Division **at its headquarters in **Luxembourg, **a **Trainee - Economic Researcher.**

Duration: five (5) months & Starting date: 1 September 2023

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Specific Post Environment: _**

By developing and offering targeted financial products to its intermediaries, the European Investment Fund (EIF) enhances SME access to finance and fosters EU objectives, notably in the field of entrepreneurship, growth, innovation, research and development, employment, and regional development.

The Research & Market Analysis (RMA) team supports the EIF’s business development and strategic decision-making processes through applied research, market analyses, surveys, and economic impact assessments. RMA works as EIF’s internal advisor, participates in international fora, and liaises with many organisations and institutions concerning research on SME finance.

You will be part of the RMA Division, which is part of EIF’s General Secretariat Department.

**_ Overall objective: _**

You will mainly contribute to RMA’s survey projects, i.e. European-wide surveys of venture capital (VC), private equity mid-market (PE MM), private debt (PD) fund managers, business angels (BAs) and national promotional institutions (NPIs) with PE/VC activities.

**_ Responsibilities_**:
Under the guidance of your Supervisor(s), you will:

- Analyse survey data;
- Support the preparation of related reports, presentations and working papers;
- Possibly support the preparation of new survey waves;
- Contribute to RMA’s general research & market analysis tasks, when relevant to the scope of the project.

You are expected to be fully dedicated to the traineeship. Undertaking any commitments in parallel that might interfere with your work for EIF would be strongly discouraged.

**_ Expected outcome: _**

Based on the EIF VC, BA, PE MM and PD surveys, the traineeship will allow you to participate in the production of reports (e.g., EIF Working Papers), presentations and datasets.

**_ Qualifications: _**

University degree (preferably a Master’s level, or on-going postgraduate studies at advanced stage), in the field of Finance or (Business) Economics, or other similar.

**_ Competencies:_**

Technical/Professional Knowledge & Skills required:

- Some knowledge and understanding of EIF’s mission, activities and products and of markets and legal frameworks relevant to EIF business, as well as policies and priorities in that context;
- Familiarity with investment practices in the PE/VC/PD and/or BA sphere will be considered an advantage but is not a prerequisite.

Experience required:

- Familiarity with statistical software packages (Stata) and/or Python programming is an advantage;
- Prior experience in banking/finance would be a plus.

General Competencies required:

- Good analytical, drafting and synthesis skills;
- Excellent knowledge of written and spoken English; knowledge of further EU languages considered an asset;
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team;
- Ability to work productively and under tight deadlines;
- Demonstrate initiative, capability to work autonomously under given objectives and time constraints; organise own work effectively.