Grade AD6
Contract Type Temporary Agent
Salary Range €6,961 - €7,876/month
Deadline 8 June 2026
Position details
- Reference
- CINEA/2026/TA/AD6/12
- Last Verified
- 27 May 2026
Position overview
This is the official EU Careers listing for Programme Coordination Manager – Renewable Energy Technology at CINEA based in Brussels at the AD6 grade level (Temporary Agent). The vacancy reference is CINEA/2026/TA/AD6/12.
Key facts on file for this position: grade AD6; contract type Temporary Agent; duty station Brussels. Full responsibilities, eligibility criteria, language requirements, and the selection procedure are set out in the official vacancy notice.
Salary at this grade
Basic monthly salary at AD6 runs from €6,961 (step 1) to €7,876 (top step), giving an annual range of roughly €83,532–€94,512 before tax and allowances. Steps increase automatically every two years; the figures here are taken from the salary grid in the EU Staff Regulations.
Eligible staff posted away from their country of nationality also receive an expatriation allowance worth 16% of basic salary — around €1,114 per month at step 1 of AD6 — together with household, dependent-child, and education allowances where applicable. Take-home pay is then adjusted by the country correction coefficient for Brussels. For a worked example see our correction coefficients guide and the EU salaries overview.
Application timeline
This vacancy was first listed on 27 May 2026, today.
The application deadline is 8 June 2026 — 11 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 27 May 2026.
Net pay at this grade
At step 1 of AD6, gross monthly basic salary on the Administrators grid is €6,961. Eligible expatriate staff add a 16% expatriation allowance on top — roughly €1,114 per month — before two automatic deductions reduce the taxable base: the joint sickness insurance scheme (JSIS, ~3.6% — €291) and the EU pension contribution (~10.3% — €832). EU community tax (Council Reg. 260/68) is then applied progressively; for the AD7-equivalent band the effective rate sits in the 11-13% range, which works out to about €834 per month here.
Brussels carries a correction coefficient of 100.0% (Article 64 of the Staff Regulations), so the net is multiplied by 1.00 to reflect the local cost of living. On those assumptions take-home pay is approximately €6,118 per month, or about €73,420 per year — before household and dependent-child allowances, which can add several hundred euros monthly for staff with families. For the exact bracket-by-bracket computation see our
net-pay methodology, and our
correction coefficients guide for the full duty-station table.
Comparable recent roles
In the last twenty-four months CINEA (and the wider Commission and agencies family) has filled several adjacent roles at the same AD6 grade level. The most recent comparable vacancies, with their actual application windows:
- Policy Feedback Coordinator (Horizon Europe – Energy Unit) at CINEA — published 2026-05-27, closed 2026-06-08
- Programme Coordination Manager – Renewable Energy Technology at CINEA — published 2026-05-19, closed 2026-06-08
- Policy Feedback Coordinator (Horizon Europe – Energy) at CINEA — published 2026-05-19, closed 2026-06-08
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 AD6 openings,
other vacancies at CINEA.
Career trajectory
Career progression for AD6 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 CINEA, the typical next move is AD7 within four to five years on merit, then AD9 by year nine if the appraisals are strong. 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 CINEA 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.
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