Manager - Social and Cohesion Policy - Industries

at  EY

The EU team of ErnstYoung provides robust and evidence-based policy, regulatory and economic advice, and technical assistance to European institutions, national governments, and private sector clients.

We make the “European Project” progress by helping our clients to:

• Gather evidence to identify main needs, challenges, drivers, and impacts;
• Anticipate change and Design public policy responses;
• Provide technical solutions and implement them;
• Coordinate the interaction with key stakeholders and communicate decisions and actions to them.

Our daily work is guided by core values and beliefs such as trust, entrepreneurship, cooperation, and quality. What motivates us is our vision & mission:

• Enabling access to top tier knowledge & networks across Europe;
• Bringing together a diverse team of dynamic and engaged people, with experience beyond academic achievements;
• Specialising in selected areas: economics, policy, law, technical support & programme delivery;
• Working together in a flexible & hands-on manner with our clients to create & sustain momentum.

You will be joining our Social and Cohesion Team which has a high-profile and expanding project portfolio for the European Institutions, bodies and agencies across a range of policy topics such as employment, labour mobility, social inclusion, equality, vocational education, migration and regional development. We currently run projects and framework contracts for DG EMPL, DG REGIO, DG REFORM, DG JUST, ELA, EIGE, ESPON, the EP LIBE, FEMM, CULT committees and others. Our success is due to our excellent team of consultants and researchers, and we are now looking to strengthen our team with a Manager who will be focussing on policy analysis and programme implementation.

THE OPPORTUNITY: YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE AWAITS?

We are looking for a manager focused on EU public policy and International comparative studies, with a background in statistics and economic with a previous experience in evaluations and programme implementation, to fulfil a position within our policy and programme implementation team. This profile will contribute to delivering top-quality projects and tenders to EU institutions and national governments in our core areas of business.

• Managing projects, develop methodologies and deliver evidence-based outputs on time and to the satisfaction of our public policy clients;
• Data searching and collection in project workstreams (desk research and statistical data analysis, surveys, interviews, case studies, focus groups, etc.);
• Drafting of sections of deliverables and proposals;
• Leading work streams, in particular: desk research, needs assessment, surveys, interviews, case studies, focus groups, workshops, analysing trends, applying statistical methodology to complex data designing and implementing data gathering/management computer systems and software, using statistics to make forecasts and to provide projected figures, presenting information in a variety of formats including maps, conveying complex information to people who may not be specialists
• Contributing to the development of our business activity by identifying opportunities and developing winning proposals;
• Leading proposals and research consortia, developing budgets and ensuring project profitability;
• Encouraging collaboration and mutual learning across team members;
• Interacting with and coordinating clients, partners and stakeholders.