Seconded National Expert - Directorate D "People"

The Seconded National Expert will assist Commission officials in contributing to the development, implementation and monitoring in the field of Economic sciences to tackle the important societal challenges as expressed in the priorities of the elected-President Ursula von der Leyen. This concerns research for providing evidence based policy options with a focus on Fair and Inclusive Societies as expressed in Cluster 2 of the current Framework Programme Horizon Europe.

He/She will perform policy analysis and assessment contributing to the identification of new research objectives and priorities for the Socio-economic sciences and Humanities Research Programme (SSH). He/she will contribute to the execution of relevant parts of the mission of Directorate D "People” and in particular, to the implementation of EU RTD policies and programmes in relation to research in SSH, in particular, on the following thematic/policy areas: Economic research such as GDP and beyond, behavioural economics, macroeconomics, labour economics, econometrics, taxation, In addition, he/she will organise ex-post assessment of activities to develop mid- and long-term perspectives for research in the field of socio-economic studies.

The suggested initial duration is 2 years, starting preferably in the 1st quarter of 2022.

For more information regarding tasks of the post, qualifications and language skills sought, please refer to the detailed vacancy notice to be downloaded here