This is the official EU Careers listing for Project Adviser at EACEA based in Brussels, Belgium at the CA - FGIV grade level. The vacancy reference is EA/EPSO/2024/01/CA FGIV.
Full responsibilities, eligibility criteria, language requirements, and the selection procedure are set out in the official vacancy notice.
Grade: CA - FGIV
Duty station: Brussels, Belgium
Vacancy reference: EA/EPSO/2024/01/CA FGIV
Application timeline
This vacancy was first listed on 28 May 2026, 6 days ago.
The application deadline is 31 December 2027 — 574 days from today. Late applications are not accepted, so submit through the official EU Careers portal well in advance.
Last verified against the EU Careers feed on 4 June 2026.
Where to learn more
For full responsibilities, requirements, and career progression at CA - FGIV see our CA - FGIV grade page; for headcount, mission, and other open vacancies at EACEA see the EACEA institution page; for the cost of living, correction coefficient, and other postings in Brussels, Belgium see our Brussels, Belgium location page.
In the last twenty-four months EACEA (and the wider Commission and agencies family) has filled several adjacent roles at the same CA - FGIV grade level. The most recent comparable vacancies, with their actual application windows:
HR Adviser at EACEA — published 2026-05-28, closed 2025-12-31
Communication Adviser at EACEA — published 2026-05-28, closed 2025-12-31
Audit Adviser at EACEA — published 2026-05-28, closed 2026-12-31
Pattern recognition matters here — recruiters at the same Directorate-General often re-advertise nearly identical profiles every six to nine months, so candidates who miss one window can typically position for the next one. Browse the live catalog: all CA - FGIV openings, other vacancies at EACEA.
Career trajectory
Career progression for CA - FGIV staff is governed by Articles 44 to 46 of the Staff Regulations (consolidated text on EUR-Lex) and Annex IB on the promotion procedure. Step increases are automatic every two years (Art. 44); grade promotion is competitive, based on the appraisal exercise (Art. 45) and the Career Development Review. For roles at EACEA, progression to the next grade typically takes three to five years on merit, with two-yearly step increases in between. Article 46 governs the classification at recruitment, which sets the starting step within the grade (usually step 1 for external recruits without prior EU service, step 2 or 3 where relevant professional experience is recognised).
Mobility within the institutions is encouraged via the inter-institutional and intra-institutional vacancy publication system: temporary agents who pass the probation period and reservists from EPSO laureate lists can typically apply to internal vacancies after one year of service. Lateral moves between Directorates-General reset the seniority clock for promotion only if the new post carries a different grade.
Language profile
Beyond the formal language requirements stated in the vacancy notice, the day-to-day working languages at this employer are English and French in roughly equal measure, with German appearing in some technical files. Internal meetings and most policy drafting in Brussels run in English; French remains the preferred internal language in Luxembourg-based services and parts of DG TRADE.
Application cadence
Across the past twenty-four months 3 comparable openings with the same grade and subject area signature have been advertised by EACEA or related EU bodies — 3 of them in the last twelve months alone. That cadence (roughly 1.5 per year) suggests a candidate who narrowly misses this competition can reasonably expect a similar profile to reopen within six to nine months.