Editorial Officer

Position description

Deadline for applications: Friday 13th June 2025 (23.59 CET)
Expected starting date: July 2025
Type of contract: Full-time one-year contract that may become permanent

Bruegel is recruiting an Editorial officer, to join the communications team, offering a compelling working experience within one of the world’s top-rated economic policy think tanks. The post offers the opportunity to gain specific knowledge on outreach related to economic policy and European affairs, and to support the editorial curation of the output of the organisation.

Bruegel is a European think tank working in the field of international economics. Established in 2005, Bruegel is independent and non-doctrinal. Its mission is to improve the quality of economic policy with open and fact-based research, analysis and debate. We are committed to impartiality, openness and excellence. Bruegel’s membership includes EU Member State governments, international corporations and institutions. For more information about Bruegel, please consult: www.bruegel.org.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Editorial officer performs the following core tasks in close collaboration with the Head of Communications, Senior Editor and the rest of the team:

• Editing of Bruegel written content;
• Support Bruegel’s Senior editor;
• Support the editorial process management;
• Help manage the website;
• Support the monitoring of Bruegel’s impact via its various channels.

Qualifications

We are looking for a proactive candidate, sociable and results-oriented, able to work within an international research community.

Obligatory qualifications/competences:

• Academic background in political science, economics, social sciences, journalism, or equivalent;
• Strong interest in economic policy and knowledge of European affairs;
• Excellent drafting and editing skills for texts targeting external audiences;
• High degree of attention to detail; proofreading skills, often for technical texts;
• Fluent written and spoken English (native or near-native speaker level);
• Ability to work under pressure to short deadlines.

Desirable qualifications/competences:

• Ability to research, collate, analyse and summarise information;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a team;
• Capacity to work with people from different social and cultural backgrounds;
• Computer literacy.

Application instructions

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