Legal Officer
Internal Market Division (IMD)
VA 06/2020

The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is an intergovernmental organisation set up for the promotion of free trade and economic integration between its four Member States: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The EFTA Secretariat provides services to the EFTA States. In Brussels this entails support in the management of the EEA Agreement.

Applicants must be nationals of one of the EFTA Member States (Iceland, Liechtenstein,Norway and Switzerland).

Division

Internal Market Division

Location

Brussels

Category/Level

A4

Type/Duration of Appointment

Fixed term three years. If considered desirable and in the organisation’s interest, an additional three-year contract may be offered.

Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Reference

VA 06/2020

Scope

The Internal Market Division (IMD) is responsible for giving support and assistance to the EFTA States in their work related to the EEA Agreement at Expert and Working Group and Subcommittee level. IMD consists of 22 persons and among them 2 legal officers.

The Legal Officers IMD report to the Director of IMD. They are also part of EFTA’s EEA legal team, which is led by the Head of EEA Legal Coordination in the EFTA Secretariat’s Coordination Division (ECD).

We are looking for a highly motivated and qualified candidate to take on the challenging post as Legal Officer in IMD. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in IMD, providing colleagues and the EEA EFTA States with legal advice within a wide scope of policy fields covered by the EEA Agreement.

The main tasks of the successful applicant will be to:

provide legal services and advice to the EEA EFTA States and colleagues in IMD within a selection of the various policy areas covered by the EEA Agreement (among others: food and veterinary matters, energy, environment, transport, technical barriers to trade),
draft EEA Joint Committee Decisions incorpor

Legal Officer Internal Market Division (IMD) VA 06/2020