It is important to know that all INED ingénieurs and techniciens—known as IT staff—belong to the category called researcher support personnel. They are not necessarily scientists but may also work in research budget management, human resources, legal expertise, communications, and many other professions.
In compliance with the rule on civil servant mobility, civil servants arriving on secondment from other specializations, ministries, or activities may diversify their professional careers by coming to INED, and some of them join the Institute permanently.
Our own civil servant applicants have priority for position openings, while applications from candidates wishing to work at the Institute on secondment widen our recruitment pool.
In all cases, secondment is conditioned on INED agreement. After checking employment levels at civil servant applicants’ home institutions and the nationwide volume of civil service secondment mobility, our Human Resources department validates new arrivals. The same procedure applies when integrating personnel already on secondment at INED into our permanent staff.
To ensure that skill levels follow developments in profession-specific activities and responsibilities, civil servants arriving at INED on secondment, like their counterparts already working with us, are eligible for ongoing and specialized training programs as stipulated by France’s national plan.
Outward secondment mobility
I- and T-category civil servants working at INED have several options for leaving the Institute to develop their career: working outside the Institute while preserving ties (mise à disposition), secondment (détachement), and availability (disponibilité), where a permanent civil servant leaves their original administration without pay while remaining administratively attached to it.
