Senior IT Officer - Data and AI

Your Team

The Register of Damage for Ukraine, established in May 2023 through an Enlarged Partial Agreement of the Council of Europe, is based in The Hague, Netherlands, with an office in Kyiv, Ukraine. It serves as a documentary record of claims and evidence on damage, loss or injury caused by the Russian Federation’s internationally wrongful acts in or against Ukraine. The Register receives claims from individuals, businesses and state and municipal entities in Ukraine regarding damage, loss or injury that they have suffered because of the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The team within which you will work, the Information Technology Section, manages the Register's systems and data. It implements innovative and cost-effective digital solutions to enhance the efficiency and productivity of the Register through user focused, data-driven, and streamlined business processes and platforms. It is also responsible for data management and information security.

Your Role

As a Senior IT Officer – Data and Artificial Intelligence, you will:

• design, test and run controlled pilots and experiments for data and AI use cases before they are taken forward for full implementation;
• support the development and operation of AI-enabled workflows for claims processing, including document processing, data enrichment, classification, summarisation, anomaly detection, risk indicators and decision-support outputs;
• co-own, together with IT colleagues, the data structures and integration patterns for storing AI-generated outputs, metadata, logs and evaluation results in RD4U systems, including MongoDB-based workflows;
• develop and maintain evaluation and QA workflows for AI outputs, including test datasets, quality checks, regression testing, output review processes and acceptance criteria;
• build and maintain operational dashboards and analytical views to monitor claims-processing workflows, AI output quality, evaluation results, system usage, cost indicators and Secretariat adoption;
• monitor and analyse the use of Azure-deployed AI services, including logs, token consumption, cost patterns, model behaviour and operational incidents, in cooperation with IT/DIT and external providers;
• act as RD4U’s internal technical counterpart for external data and AI providers by reviewing technical designs, validating outputs, documenting issues, supporting acceptance testing and helping refine future development scope;
• support the Secretariat and other users in understanding, testing and using AI-assisted workflows, while ensuring that AI remains advisory and that human users retain responsibility and oversight;
• ensure compliance with Council of Europe standards and data protection requirements by embedding privacy-by-design, secure data handling, logging, auditability and appropriate access controls across data and AI workflows.

Requirements to apply

You must have:

• a completed full course of secondary education and appropriate qualifications; 
• at least four years’ relevant professional experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, AI solution implementation, machine learning engineering, or a closely related field including strong practical experience with Python for data processing, prototyping, automation and/or analytical workflows, and experience working with structured and semi-structured data, APIs, data pipelines and databases, preferably including MongoDB and SQL, and familiarity with Microsoft Fabric or comparable platforms;
• a very good knowledge of English (one of the Council of Europe's two official languages). 

You must also: 

• be a citizen of the host country or one of the member states of the Council of Europe and fulfil the conditions for appointment to the civil service of that state;
• be currently present in The Netherlands;
• have discharged any obligation concerning national service (military, civil or comparable);
• not be the parent, child, stepchild or grandchild of a serving staff member of the Council of Europe;
• be under the age of 65 years.

Your application must demonstrate to what extent you have the competencies listed below. To help you doing so, feel free to consult our competency framework.

Key competencies

• Operational - Planning and work organisation
• Operational - Analysis and problem solving
• Operational - Learning and development
• Interpersonal - Service orientation
• Interpersonal - Teamwork and co-operation

• Professional and technical expertise:
  • AI evaluation and quality assurance: ability to design and operate testing, validation and evaluation processes for AI-assisted outputs, including quality metrics, regression testing, human review and acceptance criteria;
  • analytics and operational monitoring: ability to develop dashboards and analytical views and monitor AI services, usage, costs and operational performance, preferably using Power BI and Azure-based services;
  • data governance and security: knowledge of secure data handling, privacy-by-design, auditability, access control and documentation in environments handling sensitive information; 
  • stakeholder collaboration and communication: ability to understand operational needs, contribute to their translation into appropriate data and AI solutions, explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and support the adoption of data and AI-enabled solutions.

Desirable competencies

• Operational - Results orientation

• Professional and technical expertise:
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Engineering, or another relevant field;
  • knowledge of French.

What we offer

This job vacancy is for a local external recruitment based on fixed-term contracts. Employment is limited to 31 December 2027 and may be extended. You can consult the conditions of employment (salaries, allowances, pension scheme, social insurance, etc.) on the webpage What we offer.

Applications and selection procedure

For more information on how we recruit, you can consult the page Our recruitment process. This recruitment is carried out in accordance with Rule No. 2/2025 on locally recruited staff members in Duty Stations outside of France. The deadline for applications is indicated in the General information section of this vacancy notice (see above) and is fixed at 23:59:59 (CET/CEST). When applying, make sure your motivation shows how your competencies make your profile the best for the role.

Important information

As an equal opportunity employer, the Council of Europe welcomes applications from all suitably qualified people, irrespective of sex, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic or social origin, disability, religion or belief. Under its equal opportunity policy, the Council of Europe is aiming to achieve gender parity in staff employed in each category and grade. At the time of appointment, preference between suitable people shall be given to the person of the gender which is under-represented in the relevant grades within the category to which the vacancy belongs.

Applicants with specific needs are encouraged to request reasonable accommodations at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact us at [email protected], we will ensure that your request is handled.

The information published on the CoE’s careers website regarding working conditions is correct at the time of publication of the vacancy notice. Any changes to these conditions during the recruitment process will be updated on our Portal and will apply at the time of the job offer. Our career's website is not intended to be exhaustive and may not address all questions you would have. Should you have remaining questions, please contact us at [email protected].