Traineeship in Operational Resilience

The European Central Bank has launched: Traineeship in Traineeship in Operational Resilience

As a trainee you will:

• be involved in tasks relating to all three of the Section’s core disciplines: operational risk, business continuity and critical incident management;
• maintain systems containing operational risk and business continuity-related information;
• be responsible for updating the external loss database, as well as data relating to the ECB-wide mass notification tool and associated alert exercises;
• monitor the news to keep abreast of external threats;
• support resilience exercises and tests; • contribute to regular risk and control self-assessments, including preparing an enterprise risk and resilience dashboard for the ECB’s decision-making bodies and senior management;
• support other projects that may arise during the course of your traineeship.

Initial traineeship of between three and six months, with a possible extension to up to 12 months in total.

Type of contract: Traineeship

Who can apply? EU nationals eligible for our traineeship programme

Grant: The trainee grant is €1,170 per month plus an accommodation allowance (see further information section)

Working time: Full time

Place of work: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Closing date: 23-02-2026

More information and applications here.