This position is based at our Luxembourg headquarters and requires regular office presence. The EIB offers you the opportunity to live and work in a truly international and multi‑cultural environment and provides relocation support.
The EIB, the European Union’s bank, is recruiting for its Secretariat General Directorate (SG), Communications Department (COM), Publishing Division (PUB) a Communication Officer – Branding and Design Lead. This is a full‑time position at grade 5 with a permanent contract.
* internal benchmark Officer Corporate Communication
Panel interviews are anticipated for end of February 2026.
Purpose
You will manage and coordinate the branding direction and visual identity across the EIB Group’s digital and physical content, ensuring attractiveness, brand recognition and visual consistency across all design outputs while delivering high‑quality visual solutions. This contributes to increased awareness of the EIB Group activities and protects and enhances the EIB’s external identity and reputation.
Operating Network
The Communications Department ensures the EIB Group’s activities are known and valued by stakeholders and the public, interacting with external and internal audiences in an open and accountable manner. The Publishing division is the content powerhouse, supporting engagement across all communication channels.
Accountabilities
* Develop and maintain the EIB Group’s visual identity, ensuring consistency across all platforms.
* Prepare and periodically update EIB logo guidelines.
* Oversee the supply of branded materials for events, meetings and conferences, and manage the ongoing development of the Web shop.
* Provide art direction and coordinate designers, creative agencies (digital, web, print) and typesetting companies to ensure quality and brand coherence.
* Manage day‑to‑day design and production operations, ensuring timely delivery to the highest standards.
* Conceptualise and implement innovative designs for physical and digital products and content.
* Create and maintain reusable visualisation templates – static and animated – for social media production.
* Stay abreast of emerging technologies, particularly AI, in digital graphic design and animation.
* Work closely with editors, marketers, social media and audiovisual specialists, and other colleagues to develop impactful visual stories that inspire engaging content across all media.
* Encourage a culture of creative innovation within the team by sharing examples and facilitating experimentation with new formats and tools (e.g., AI‑assisted design, data storytelling).
* Regularly monitor and benchmark design and communication practices from leading institutions and brands to identify best practices, trends and innovative formats for publications, digital products and campaigns.
* Ensure effective planning and budget management for design and production activities.
* Contribute to the development and implementation of the EIB Group’s overall communication strategy and assist in setting division priorities and activities.
Qualifications
* University degree (minimum a Bachelor) preferably in graphic art, design or a related field.
* At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in graphic arts or design within communication agencies or corporate/institutional environments, of which at least 3 years in managing design projects.
* Comprehensive knowledge of multimedia and print production processes.
* Experience in web design and digital design principles.
* Awareness of the latest AI tools and applications for graphic design.
* Background in advertising is considered an asset.
* Basic understanding of the EU institutional and political framework.
* Strong foundation in UX/UI design and familiarity with AI‑enhanced workflows to deliver intuitive, responsive and visually compelling digital experiences.
* Proficiency in design software, particularly Adobe Creative Suite, and UX platforms such as Figma.
* Excellent command of MS Office and template creation tools; good knowledge of mapping, animation and infographic software.
* Excellent knowledge of English and/or French (***), with a good command of the other. Knowledge of other EU languages would be an advantage.
Competencies & Eligibility
Find out more about EIB core competencies here and to find out more about our eligibility criteria click here.
Unless stated explicitly as a required qualification, a good command of French is not a pre‑requisite for hire. As both English and French are however official working languages of the EIB, proficiency in both languages is a pre‑requisite for your future career development. Any language clause in your contract must be fulfilled in order for you to be eligible for a promotion (either via the annual appraisal cycle or via an internal selection process). Proficiency is understood to mean the attainment of level 5 of the Inter Institutional language courses, corresponding to B1.2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). The Bank offers appropriate training support.
We hire and value talent with unique characteristics, creating a work environment where they can be themselves. We believe that Diversity, Equity and Inclusion makes us a performing and innovative organisation. We encourage all suitably qualified and eligible candidates to apply regardless of their gender identity/expression, age, racial, ethnic and cultural background, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation, disability or neurodiversity.
We strongly invite applicants with a disability, neurodivergent profile or chronic condition to request reasonable accommodations at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact the EIB Recruitment team at Jobs@eib.org who will ensure that your request is handled.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge the importance of maintaining the security and integrity of the Information of the EIB Group. In case of selection for the position you agree to comply with all measures (policies, controls, document classification and management) implemented by the EIB Group to prevent unauthorised disclosure of any information or any damage to the EIB Group reputation.
Application Deadline
Deadline for applications: 2nd February 2026
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