Deputy Registrar of The European Court of Human Rights

**General Information**:
**Vacancy number**
- 1055/2025

**Recruitment type**
- External recruitment (international)

**Type of contract**
- Fixed-term appointment

**Posted date**
- 15-Sep-2025

**Deadline to apply**
- 29-Sep-2025

**Duty station**
- Strasbourg

**Grade**
- A6

**Entity**
- Registry of the European Court of Human Rights

**Description & Requirements**:
**Your Team**

The European Court of Human Rights oversees the implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights in the member states. Individuals can bring complaints of human rights violations to the Strasbourg Court once all possibilities of appeal have been exhausted in the member state concerned.

The task of the Registry is to provide legal and administrative support to the Court in the exercise of its judicial functions. It is therefore composed of lawyers, administrative and technical staff and translators and comprises a workforce of approximately 700 people coming from 46 member states.

Under the direct supervision of the Registrar, the Deputy Registrar supervises the Grand Chamber Registry and Section Registrars, who manage the Legal Units attached to their respective sections.

**Your Role**

As a Deputy Registrar you will assist the Registrar in key areas of judicial and administrative management of the Court and its Registry.

Programme and Resource Management
- together with the Registrar, oversee the case-processing activities of the Registry;
- advise the judges on practice and procedure;
- assist the Registrar in organising the work of the Grand Chamber Registry;
- advise the Registrar in determining the overall staff and budgetary policy; make recommendations to the Registrar on staff and budgetary matters.

Leadership and Staff Management
- assist the Registrar of the Court in providing leadership and direction to approximately 700 staff by maintaining a harmonious and efficient working environment within the Registry so as to ensure that the Registry provides effective assistance to the Court;
- set annual objectives and assess the performance of senior Registry officials.

Responsibility and Reporting
- assist the Registrar of the Court, the Registry’s senior official, and replace him or her when necessary.

Communication and Representation
- ensure the effective implementation of the Court’s communications policy, in accordance with the instructions of the Court, notably in relation to the media, the general and specialised public and other international and national courts;
- maintain contacts and co-operate with senior management in other parts of the Council of Europe;
- represent the Registry and, on the instructions of the President, the Court.

**Requirements to apply**

Academic background
- hold a University degree in law, preferably equivalent to a master’s degree (2nd cycle of the **Bologna process framework of qualifications for the European Higher Education Area**) or above, obtained in one of the Council of Europe member states;
- have a very good knowledge of both Council of Europe official languages (English and French).

Professional background and expertise
- have professional experience in the field of law and thorough knowledge of the procedure, practice and case law of the European Convention on Human Rights;
- have extensive experience of the functioning of judicial international institutions;
- have a minimum of 10 years’ experience of judicial administration and management of people at a senior level, particularly managing large teams and/or substantial budgets, acquired in an international and multi-cultural environment.

You must also:

- be a citizen of one of the member states of the Council of Europe and fulfil the conditions for appointment to the civil service of that state;
- 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.

**Key competencies**
- Managerial - Vision and Strategic Insight
- Managerial - Organisational and contextual awareness
- Managerial - Management of teams
- Operational - Analysis and problem solving
- Interpersonal - Communication

**Desirable competencies**
- Managerial - Decision making
- Interpersonal - Influencing
- Interpersonal - Resilience

**What we offer**

This job vacancy is for an international external recruitment. You can consult the conditions of employment (salaries, allowances, pension scheme, social insurance, etc.) on the webpage **What we offer**.

**Applications and selection procedure**

**Important information