The Administrative Director shall be appointed by the College of the EPPO from a list of successful candidates proposed by the European Chief Prosecutor.

The Administrative Director shall be the legal representative of the EPPO for administrative and budgetary purposes and implement the budget of the EPPO as authorising officer.

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Tasks and responsibilities: 

The Administrative Director shall be independent in the performance of her/his duties and shall neither seek nor take instructions from any government or any other .

The Administrative Director’s duties will include, amongst others, the following:

• the day-to-day administration of the EPPO and staff management;
• implementing the decisions adopted by the European Chief Prosecutor or the College;
• developing decisions and policies to ensure effective delivery of services in the area of human resources, finance and procurement, security and digital services;
• preparing a proposal for the annual and multi-annual programming document and submitting it to the European Chief Prosecutor;
• implementing the annual and multi-annual work programmes and reporting to the College on their implementation;
• preparing the administrative and budgetary parts of the annual report on the EPPO’s activities;
• preparing an action plan following-up on the conclusions of the internal or external audit reports, evaluations and investigations, including those of the European Data Protection Supervisor and OLAF; implementing recommendations stemming from the observations and reporting to the audit bodies and to the College;
• implementing EPPO’s internal anti-fraud, internal control and risk management strategies and reporting regularly to the College;
• preparing EPPO’s Consolidated Annual Activity Report (CAAR) that includes his/her declaration of assurance for the legal and regular spending of the EPPO’s budget and present it to the ECP and College for adoption;
• implementing the revenue and expenditure of the budget in accordance with the EPPO financial rules and the principle of sound financial management under his or her own responsibility and within the limits of the appropriations authorised; preparing a proposal for the EPPO’s draft statement of estimates of revenues and expenditures, and submitting it to the European Chief Prosecutor;
• providing necessary administrative support to facilitate the operational work of the EPPO;
• providing support to the European Chief Prosecutor and the Deputy European Chief Prosecutors in the carrying out of their duties.

How to apply

Reference: EPPO/2024/AD/019