Officer (w/m/d) for Unit DWI4 "Bilateral Digital Policy" in the BMDS (Administrative Scientist)

Officer (w/m/d) for Unit DWI4 "Bilateral Digital Policy" in the Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung (BMDS)

Location: Berlin

Application deadline: September 3, 2026

Working time model: Full-time / Part-time

Remuneration: Eligible to apply up to salary group A 14 BBesO (limitation does not apply to members of the BMDS)

Pay: EG 13 TV EntgO Bund (Depending on the result of a workplace assessment yet to be carried out. The classification is based on the assigned activity and personal qualifications.)

Career group: higher administrative service or comparable salaried employees

Circle of applicants: Eligible to apply are employees of the BMDS, the Federal Ministries, and the other supreme federal authorities who belong to the career path of the higher non-technical administrative service and comparable salaried employees

Employment relationship: permanent employment

Reference number: BMDS-2026-024

The Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung (BMDS) is a ministry that implements! Our claim is: to get things done, deliver fast concrete successes, resolve blockages, and produce visible results. Do you want to contribute to ensuring that political measures are effective and that state services are consistently developed from the perspective of the users? Then apply as soon as possible as an Officer (m/f/d) for Unit DW I 4 "Bilateral Digital Policy" at the Berlin location.

Tasks of the workplace:

The BMDS maintains extensive international cooperation with global partners, including within the framework of AI partnerships and digital alliances. In this context, the following tasks arise in particular:

• Processing issues of bilateral and regional political cooperation with selected key states, including cross-departmental coordination;
• Accompanying the digital policy cooperation of the European Union with third countries, including through:
• Coordination with the EU Commission and issuing instructions regarding digital partnerships and dialogues as well as EU trade and technology councils,
• Processing issues in connection with Digital Trade Agreements and other EU agreements,
• Internal coordination of participation in EU instruments such as Twinning and TAIEX;
• international experience acquired through study stays or professional postings.
• Participation in the further development of bilateral aspects of international digital policy, including participation in regional political strategies and guidelines;
• Management of contractors and accompaniment of grant projects, including processing of budgetary/grant law issues;
• Accompanying and participating in initiatives such as Pax Silica, Sovereign Tech Alliance, India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), Digital Summit of the Western Balkan states, etc.;
• Building and maintaining contacts with foreign partner authorities, embassies and consulates of partner states, German foreign missions, organizations for foreign trade promotion, companies, associations, think tanks, and research/scientific institutions;
• Monitoring and analysis of technological and digital policy developments in other states and regions;
• Substantive preparation, accompaniment, and follow-up of bilateral discussions, government negotiations, and exchange formats;
• Conceptual and substantive preparation and follow-up of management trips as well as international conferences, as well as participation in foreign trade fairs;
• Preparation of discussion papers, speeches, letters, decision templates, and memoranda;
• Representation of the BMDS towards other departments as well as foreign partner authorities.

Requirements:

• completed university degree (Master or Diplom (Universität) or equivalent degree) preferably in political, administrative, legal, or economic sciences
• or completed promotion process that has led to qualification for the higher non-technical administrative service,
• several years of professional experience in the function of an Officer in the federal administration,
• knowledge of the working methods of the European Union,
• good oral and written expression,
• ability to summarize and evaluate complex issues briefly and concisely,
• strong teamwork skills, social competence, and a high sense of responsibility,
• above-average commitment, resilience, flexibility, initiative, and originality in thinking,
• very good organizational and communication skills, negotiation skills, persuasiveness, and a confident appearance,
• very good and business-fluent knowledge of the English language in speaking and writing (at least level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference),
• willingness to undertake longer business trips, including to non-European countries,
• confidentiality and willingness to participate in an extended security clearance according to § 9 Sicherheitsüberprüfungsgesetz (SÜG).

Desirable:

• experience in cooperation with foreign partners as well as in the preparation of political decision-making processes,

We offer

• an interesting activity at the center of the digital transformation of the federal administration,
• scope for design,
• a modern, collegial working environment with high individual responsibility,
• flexible working hours, mobile working, as well as comprehensive training and further education opportunities,
• ministerial allowance.

Circle of eligible applicants

Eligible to apply are employees of the BMDS, the Federal Ministries, and the other supreme federal authorities who belong to the career path of the higher non-technical administrative service and comparable salaried employees. If you are already working in the public service, you can be hired by way of secondment with the aim of transfer to the BMDS. The limitation of the salary group does not apply to members of the BMDS. The position is fundamentally also suitable for part-time employment.

For us, skill counts, not sexual orientation or identity, age, religion, nationality, or origin. We therefore welcome applications from all people.

Applications from women are particularly welcome. Women will be given preferential consideration if qualifications are equal. Severely disabled applicants will be given preferential consideration if qualifications are equal. Only a minimum level of physical fitness is required from them.

Do you feel addressed?

Then please apply exclusively via the online application system. The link to the online application system is:

https://bewerbung.dienstleistungszentrum.de/frontend/BMDS-2026-024/index.html (https://bewerbung.dienstleistungszentrum.de/frontend/BMDS-2026-024/index.html)

You will receive the access data there by providing your email address.

Please upload your complete German-language application documents as a PDF file (max. 20 MB):

• Motivation letter
• CV with previous professional experience
• Diplom (Universität) or Master's certificate with transcript of records
• Proof of all your previous university degrees with transcript of records
• Work certificates, official evaluations
• Proof of required language skills
• if applicable, proof of severe disability or equivalent status to severely disabled people

We ask for your understanding that we only consider complete application documents for the selection process. Incomplete documents lead to exclusion from the process.

For foreign educational qualifications, comparability with a German degree is required. In the database anabin (https://anabin.kmk.org/anabin.html (https://anabin.kmk.org/anabin.html)) provided by the Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB), you can check the comparability of your educational degree. If your educational degree is not listed there, we request the submission of corresponding proof of equivalence with a German degree (certificate evaluation): www.KMK.org/ZAB (https://zab.kmk.org/de/zeugnisbewertung) .

Data protection notices

https://bmds.bund.de/datenschutzhinweis-personalgewinnung (https://bmds.bund.de/datenschutzhinweis-personalgewinnung)

For questions in connection with your application, the employees of the Service Center for Personnel Recruitment of the Bundesverwaltungsamt are happy to assist you at the telephone number 022899 358-87500.