The Authority
ESMA is an independent EU Authority that was established on 1 January 2011. ESMA’s mission is to enhance investors’ protection and promote stable and orderly financial markets. This mission is derived from ESMA’s founding Regulation4 and encompasses three objectives:
- Investors’ protection: to have the needs of financial consumers better served and to reinforce their rights as investors while acknowledging their responsibilities;
- Orderly markets: to promote the integrity, transparency, efficiency, and well-functioning of financial markets and robust market infrastructures, and
- Financial stability: to strengthen the financial system in order to be capable of withstanding shocks and the unravelling of financial imbalances while fostering economic growth.
ESMA achieves its mission within the European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS) through active co-operation with National Competent Authorities (in particular with securities market regulators) as well as with the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). ESMA has a unique position within the ESFS as it focuses on the securities and financial markets dimension and the overarching European aspects of these objectives. For further information, please refer to ESMA’s website: http://www.esma.europa.eu
Job description
ESMA is organising a selection procedure for the post of Paralegal within the Legal, Convergence and Enforcement (LCE) Department.
The LCE Department is responsible for providing support and expertise to other Departments of ESMA, to senior management and to ESMA’s Board of Supervisors (BoS) in the following three main areas:
- Legal services;
- Enforcement, and
- Supervisory Convergence.
The Legal and Enforcement Teams are tasked with legal analysis and advice, conducting enforcement procedures and representing ESMA in proceedings, notably before the European Supervisory Authorities’ (ESAs) Board of Appeal, the Civil Service Tribunal, and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Main duties:
Under the supervision of Head of Legal, Convergence and Enforcement (LCE) Department and/or Legal Team Leader, the jobholder will provide a paralegal support to the LCE Department(mostly its Legal and Enforcement Teams), and in particular:
- provide support in the drafting and editing of legal texts;
- help to analyse and summarise files in order to prepare a position to be taken by the Authority and/or members of the LCE Department;
- research and help to draft an advice on questions relating to law, breach of Union Law, procedures before the ESAs’ Board of Appeals (BoA), or litigation;
- prepare and format files for the adoption of draft technical standards by the Authority;
- monitor of actions taken, procedural stages (Ombudsman cases, complaints, appeals before the BoA, litigation phases), and compliance with deadlines;
- conduct a preparatory research and analysis of European (and, to the extent feasible) national law;
- carry out research, coordinate research and generally manage requests for access to documents from European citizens within the framework of applicable legislation;
- participate in defining new tools for document management, creating and feeding the Authority’s databases with material related to law;
- encrypt, prepare and monitor access to investigation files in the context of Independent Investigating procedure, and fulfill other tasks on an ad hoc basis within the post’s area of responsibility.
Type of contract: Contract Agent
Function group and grade: FGIV
Division/Unit: Legal, Convergence and Enforcement Department
Place of employment: Paris, France
Deadline for applications: 28/02/2016 (23:59 hrs, Paris local time)
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