Deputy Secretary General/deputy Director General

**This position is based at our Luxembourg headquarters and requires regular office presence. **The EIB offers you the opportunity to live and work in a truly international and multi-cultural environment. We also offer relocation support.** **The **EIB**, the European Union's bank, is seeking to recruit for its Secretariat General at its headquarters in Luxembourg, a **Deputy Secretary General/Deputy Director General*. **This is a full-time temporary position at grade 8.
- The appointment is for a term of up to five years._
- _internal benchmark: Department Head_
- Applicants will receive an initial feedback in September/October. Assessment Centres for selected applicants would take place from October._
- Panel interviews are anticipated from November._

**Purpose**:
You will provide leadership, strategic coordination and operational alignment to the departments within the remit of the position. You will be responsible for developing and implementing a plan and strategy for departments within own remit to assist the European Investment Bank to achieve its strategic priorities and realise efficiency gains, providing direction and setting priorities for their team.

You will manage staff within own hierarchical structure in the delivery of this vision and strategy to achieve the objectives for the Secretariat General and to promote the efficient governance and institutional strategy of the Bank within own remit.

**Operating Network**:
The Secretariat General is responsible for a wide range of activities and processes related to the core decision making and strategy definition within the Bank and related processes, including:

- Implementing and monitoring the decision-making processes in the Bank, and proposing, when relevant, changes in the governance policy;
- Defining corporate and institutional strategy at EU and national levels, and providing the background economic analysis to support it (including the Corporate Operational Plan);
- Providing economic analysis;
- Reporting on the EIBG’s corporate responsibility activities and managing relationships with NGOs;
- Promoting the EIB’s image, priorities and activities to the public through media relations, events and publications.
- Coordinating and developing relations with EU institutions, international and development financing agencies and NGOs. It is also responsible for the external relations towards all stakeholders and the civil society.

The Secretariat General comprises three pillars, each headed by a Deputy Secretary General with their own clearly defined remit or a Director-General in respect of the EIB Permanent Representative’s Office in Brussels.

One pillar, the **Stakeholder, Corporate and Governance** **Pillar**, focuses on serving the needs of EIB’s key stakeholders - shareholders, governing and control bodies and civil society. This Pillar comprises three departments:

- the Shareholder Relations and Institutional Matters Department;
- the Regulation, Governance and Corporate Responsibilities; Department; and
- the EIB Institute.

A second pillar, which will be led by the successful applicant, is the **Economics, Strategy and Communications Pillar** and which comprises three departments:

- the Group Strategy Department;
- the Communication Department; and
- the Economics Department.

The Economics Department focuses on economic research, analysis and reporting. The Communication Department in responsible for the EIB’s internal and external communication management, including developing communication strategies for the digital and real-word presence of the EIB and providing translation services. The Group Strategy Department’s key responsibilities relate to developing the EIB Group Operational Plan and developing and coordinating the implementation of institutional and operational strategy and strategic initiatives across the EIB Group’s Services including the Group-wide coordination of efficiency projects.

**Accountabilities**:

- You will provide strategic and coherent direction to the teams within the Pillar to bolster the EIBG’s ability to achieve its strategic priorities and deliver the Bank and the European Union’s mission.
- You will contribute to defining the EIBG’s strategies for implementing its own goals and the European Union’s objectives and communicating those strategies and vision to the teams within the pillar. You will:
Lead, motivate, develop and manage staff in own area of responsibility through the management team in place, ensuring that all staff has adequate competencies, training opportunities, technical resources and technical and personal skills to achieve their objectives.

Ensure effective communication, cooperation and knowledge sharing between all members within own area of responsibility and the EIB services across the organisation.

Ensure that the EIB’s strategic priorities are efficiently developed, elaborated, articulated and implemented in alignment with EIB Group policies and p