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EEAS Headquarters - Information and Communication Officer - Contract Agent FGIV - GII.GLOBAL.STRAT.3 - job No 447671
27.02.2026 Expiring soon
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Deadline for sending application: 13/03/2026at 12.00 noon (CET).
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WE ARE
The European External Action Service (EEAS) supports the High Representative in the exercise of her mandate to conduct and implement an effective and coherent Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), to represent the EU and to chair the Foreign Affairs Council.
It also supports the High Representative in her capacity as Vice-President of the Commission with regard to her responsibilities within the Commission in the external relations field, including the coordination of other aspects of the EU's external action. The EEAS works in close cooperation with the EU Member States, the General Secretariat of the Council, the services of the Commission and the Secretariat General of the European Parliament.
The Directorate for Policy Planning and Strategic Communication (STRAT) steers communications and outreach to promote the role of the EU as a strong global actor, ensures the EEAS’ contribution to EU efforts to fight disinformation, information manipulation and interference, and coordinates strategic policy analysis with a view to inform policy and decision-making. The Directorate develops Strategic Communication and Public Diplomacy activities across a wide range of geographic and thematic topics and works in close cooperation with EU Delegations, Member States, international partners and relevant services from other EU institutions.
The recruiting Division is STRAT.3: Strategic Communication, Regional Teams and Coordination of Task Forces. Its mandate is to provide strategic communication support in the implementation of EU foreign and security policy in related priority regions (Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood, the Western Balkans, Sub Saharan Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific) by developing and implementing specific strategic communication actions focused on advancing EU policies, values, objectives and interests. The Division and its Task Forces contribute to effective and fact-based strategic communication and the strengthening of the overall media environment and civil society in the regions it covers.
The Division also plays an important role in addressing foreign information manipulation and interference, including disinformation, in the regions outside of the EU, by implementing the Action Plan against disinformation (JOIN(2018) 36 final), European Democracy Action Plan (COM/2020/790 final) and relevant Council Conclusions, which outline and call for concrete actions to bolster EU capabilities to detect, analyse and expose disinformation and strengthen coordinated and joint responses between the Union and Member States.
WE PROPOSE
The position of Information and Communication Officer contract agent FGIVas per article 3b of the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants of the European Union (hereafter, the “CEOS”).
PLACE and DATE OF EMPLOYMENT
EEAS Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
Post available: 16/04/2026
LEGAL BASIS
The vacancy is to be filled in accordance with the conditions stipulated under the CEOS, in particular Article 82 thereof.
In case of recruitment, the successful candidate will be offered a contract agent position (Function group IV), on the basis of a contract with an initial duration of one year that may be successively renewed up to a maximum duration of six years, subject to the maximum duration of engagement by the EEAS allowed under successive limited duration contracts of different types.
WE LOOK FOR
A highly motivated person for the Contract Agent FG IV position of Information and Communication Officer to be based within EEAS STRAT.3 Division (Strategic Communication, Regional Teams and Coordination of Task Forces), in the Asia Pac Team with strong analytical and networking skills. This Contract Agent will join the Team and work to enhance overall EU strategic communication efforts towards the Asia Pacific, with a particular focus on the Indo-Pacific region, and produce analysis of the information environment and Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) in the various countries to help design and enhance Strategic Communications in the region.
The person will work in close coordination with the relevant policy divisions of the EEAS, the European Commission (DG INTPA), the EU Delegations, the Spokesperson’s Service and EU MS representatives and the expert community in the priority regions, as well as external contractors and other relevant networks.
The candidate should have a good understanding of EU policy-making and decision-making processes, and an understanding of inter-institutional relations as well as have relevant political experience in the proposed areas. He/she will have to work in an international and multicultural environment in close synergy with EU institutions and Member States.
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