Protocol & Institutional Relations Officer
Plans official events and visits so that everything — seating, order of speeches, flags, invitations — reflects the right institutional respect.
Degree-level grade: technical and management work one step below A1, with its own competitive exam. What does this group mean?
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- Typical pay
- €24k–€45k
- Usual education
- University degree (protocol, communication, PR) or specialist course + public exam
- Outlook
- Small but stable field. Every ministry, region, city hall, university and large public body needs protocol staff.
A day in the life
You draft the running order for a mayor's official reception, confirm which authorities attend and in what precedence, check the room layout and the flags, and brief the speakers. On event days you are the calm voice in the earpiece keeping everything to the minute.
Ways in
- Degree in Protocol and Event Organisation or Communication
- Postgraduate in institutional protocol after any degree
- Start in a communications team and specialise into protocol
What to study at 16
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Spain
Bachillerato de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
Portugal
Ciências Socioeconómicas
Italy
Liceo classico / scienze umane
Netherlands
Profiel Economie & Maatschappij
Austria
AHS Oberstufe
Belgium
ASO – General secondary
Exams you'll need
The gates between you and this job, and when each one comes.
EPSO competitions
The route into the same kind of work inside the EU institutions.
RequiredOposición Grupo A2 / B
Entry to this post is through the competitive exam for its group.
Skills that matter
Places that hire for this
Administração Pública Central (Portugal)
Vacancies are published in the Diário da República and on the Bolsa de Emprego Público.
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Large municipal employer recruiting by procedimento concursal.
Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP)
Agent competitions plus the ISCPSI officer degree route.