The European Central Bank offers an initial traineeship of between three and six months, with a possible extension to up to 12 months in total. The place of work is Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
In your role as trainee, you will be part of the Operational Risk and Business Continuity Section, which is currently working on several emerging risks and opportunities, including in relation to adoption of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the response to geopolitical developments, and cyber resilience.
Duties
As a trainee you will:
- be involved in tasks relating to all three of the Section’s core disciplines: operational risk, business continuity and critical incident management;
- maintain systems containing operational risk and business continuity-related information;
- be responsible for updating the external loss database, as well as data relating to the ECB-wide mass notification tool and associated alert exercises;
- monitor the news to keep abreast of external threats;
- support resilience exercises and tests;
- contribute to regular risk and control self-assessments, including preparing an enterprise risk and resilience dashboard for the ECB’s decision-making bodies and senior management;
- support other projects that may arise during the course of your traineeship.
Requirements
- a bachelor’s degree or higher in operational risk management, business and/or public administration, auditing, information technology or another relevant field;
- experience of analysing data and producing reports;
- knowledge of organisational resilience, operational risk, business continuity or crisis management;
- good skills in data processing in MS Excel and in data visualisation in MS PowerPoint or Tableau;
- a good knowledge of all other products in the MS Office package;
- familiarity with Python, SQL or Visual Basic for Applications;
- an advanced (C1) command of English and an intermediate (B1) command of at least one other official language of the EU, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Benefits
The trainee grant is €1,170 per month plus an accommodation allowance.
Deadline: 23 February 2026
More information: European Central Bank
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