Associate / Senior Associate, Eu Stakeholder

Global Counsel (GC) is creating a new position to support its global advisory teams with research and expertise on the EU institutions.

Examples of GC work in this area can be found in the analysis and blog sections of our website.

**Role and responsibilities**
- Attending external events to gather insights and develop networks to inform advice to clients.
- Quickly reviewing and assessing new EU initiatives, appointments and developments for their real-world implications for businesses. This can include assessing points of tension or alignment between national capitals and the EU institutions.
- Identifying the key individuals and institutional roles in the Commission, Parliament, Council and regulatory agencies and providing concise briefings on their agendas and interests, as well as opportunities for engagement.
- Presenting information clearly and objectively to internal and external customers, including through the visualisation of relevant data in Word and PowerPoint.
- Supporting business development with background research on potential clients, their objectives and exposures to policymaking, as well as delivering broader thought leadership campaigns.

**Skills and profile**
- Excellent written English and comfort in using core software for data interpretation and visualisation, including Microsoft Office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint and Co-Pilot.
- Experience providing advice on economic policy in government, EU institutions, think tanks, consultancies and/or companies’ in-house policy team.
- Other European languages are highly desirable.
- Degree level qualification in economics, political science, international political economy or a related discipline an advantage
- A motivated self-starter who works well independently and as part of a team.

This is a full-time role based in Brussels with the possibility for work travel.
Salary and other benefits are competitive and dependent on experience.

Department

EU Politics and Policy

Locations

Brussels
- Contact Imogen Dunn Senior Associate, HR & Talent

**Why join**:
An opportunity to work with world-class advisers and political experts in a fast-growing firm, alongside a strong professional development program including a personal training budget.A competitive salary and bonus structure, a robust benefits package and opportunities to work from our offices across the world.A commitment to work-life balance, with flexible working, 25 days holiday allowance plus public holidays, enhanced parental leave, discretionary winter holiday office closures, and sabbaticals.

**Our commitment to diversity**:
We are committed to equal opportunities, respect and wellbeing for all staff and applicants for employment. We are committed to building a team that genuinely reflects the diversity of the places we work. We are committed to achieving a culture where there is regard for all and there is no place for discrimination and harassment of any type.

Our aim is for GC to be a company where all our colleagues have the opportunity to grow, develop, succeed and be their authentic selves whatever their sex, race, colour, class, religion, age, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, redundancy, leaves of absence, salary and training.

**About Global Counsel**:
Global Counsel brings together a team with diverse experience across the public and private sectors. Since our establishment in 2010 we have developed a wide range of services and capabilities for corporates and investors.

Global Counsel helps companies and investors across sectors to anticipate the ways in which politics, regulation and public policymaking create both risk and opportunity, and to develop and implement strategies to meet these challenges. We provide them with due diligence support to build compelling, evidence-based campaigns to engage in policy debates.

Our work is supported by high quality analytical content and collateral that is politically and economically informed and which builds quickly into executable strategy.

Our team is led by former public policymakers and political advisors with experience at the highest level of government. We have offices in London, Brussels, Washington DC, Singapore and Doha and are supported by a network of partners in other key markets.
- Founded in 2010
- Co-workers 120