The position is to work with the secretariat of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (S&D Group) in Brussels. The trainee will be offered a position that includes monitoring the work of parliamentary committees, working with the press team, participating in the S&D Group’s events, and other areas of parliamentary life

The traineeship is for a period of 5 months starting on the 16 September 2019 and ending on the 15 February 2020 with expenses of 1350 Euros a month. Further information on who the S&D Group are and what they do can be found at the web site address http://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu

To qualify candidates must in principle:

• be nationals of a European Union member state, a candidate country for EU accession or a country which has a partnership agreement with the S&D Group
• be sympathetic to the values of the Labour Party
• be aged between 18 and 35 years
• have perfect knowledge of one official language of the European Union and good knowledge of a second