JOB DESCRIPTION

 

Statistical officer

in DG ESTAT of the European Commission

Job title*: Statistical officer – Sustainable development indicators
Domain**: Economics, finance and statistics
Where: Unit ESTAT E.2 – „Environmental statistics and accounts; sustainable development“, Luxembourg
Function Group: FG IV
Contract Type: 3b
Express your interest until: 23.12.2025 – 12.00 (noon, Brussels time)

WE ARE

ESTAT unit E.2 is responsible for environmental statistics and accounts, and sustainable
development. The mission of unit E.2 is to:

provide environmental statistics in the areas of waste, water, forestry and biodiversity

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provide environmental accounts in line with international standards and closely linked to
the methodology of national accounts in order to facilitate analysis of the interaction between
the economy and the environment;
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indicators;
• maintain and update sustainable development indicators and indicators to monitor the
circular economy;
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advance methodological work in the fields listed above.

The unit has 31 staff members organised in 4 teams and manages a budget of around €4 million
per year.

The sustainable development indicators team comprises 7 people. The team’s main role is to
monitor and communicate EU progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals along a set
of circa 100 policy-relevant indicators. The team is also involved in other cross-cutting
measurement topics, such as statistics for the European Green Deal. In order to communicate the
indicators, the team is responsible for flagship publications and data visualisations covering these
topics.

WE PROPOSE

We propose a position (contract agent) in the sustainable development indicators team with
responsibilities on monitoring sustainable development goals and also on climate change
adaptation and resilience statistics, related to important EU policy frameworks.

The job comprises a challenging and very interesting mix of content-related, methodological,
dissemination and communication activities and provides for a good overview of the areas of

 

activity of Eurostat, of the policies of the EU and of international work.

The job comprises the following main responsibilities:

contribute to the annual EU SDG monitoring report and associated communication products;
cooperate with European Commission DGs involved in the EU SDG monitoring;
contribute to methodological work and developing guidelines on climate adaptation and

• monitor sustainable development indicators in coordination with the Eurostat production
units as well as with external data providers;
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resilience statistics;
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economic accounting (UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting, SEEA).

contribute to the integration of climate adaptation in the framework of environmental-

The position offers an interesting mix of statistical analysis and relations with users, inside and
outside the Commission. It also involves the development of new indicators based on existing
statistics from unit E.2 and the rest of Eurostat as well as from sources outside of official
statistics.

WE LOOK FOR

The successful candidate should have the following qualifications and/or skills:

ability to communicate efficiently and fluently statistics and quantitative information,

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either targeted to Commission services or the public;
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is an advantage.

capacity for descriptive statistical analysis and assessment of trends;
good drafting skills;
ability to coordinate, sense of initiative and being pro-active;
ability to work within a team;
ability to cooperate with stakeholders;
experience with environmental statistics;
experience producing environmental-economic accounts (SEEA) or national accounts (ESA)

The candidate should be well organised, ready to work under tight deadlines, with the ability to
react quickly to new developments. A very good level of English is essential.

HOW TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST?

With a view to guaranteeing equal access to all, the Commission recruits from an open database of
spontaneous applications. The present call for interests aims at helping the recruiters to identify
potentially interested candidates within this database.

In practice, to express your interest, please follow the subsequent two steps:

1.

If you are not registered yet in the open EPSO database, please do so at the following
address: CAST Permanent. Please select under selection procedures for contract agent the
CAST permanent profile that best suits your education and experience.

(Reference: Call for interest ESTAT/LUX/2025/CA/203712)

2. You should send your documents in a single pdf in the following order:

send

1. your CV
Please
[email protected]
ESTAT/LUX/2025/CA/203712 in the subject.

2. completed application form.
these documents by
indicating

the publication deadline

the

call

for

interest

to ESTAT-HR-
reference

(Reference: Call for interest ESTAT/LUX/2025/CA/203712)