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Business start-up and midmarket development, social housing promotion, infrastructure funding, municipal finance, portfolio and liquidity management, risk management: NRW.BANK’s fields of activity offer a variety of interesting tasks for people with different skills and objectives.

To meet the requirements of its clients and business units, NRW.BANK is looking for motivated employees with the flexibility to accept new challenges.

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NRW.BANK is a German development bank operating at federal state level ‑ a partner to the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), to all relationship banks and other channels of development funds in NRW as well as to companies in all lines of industry, to cities and communities. NRW.BANK funds and manages projects in the areas of housing construction and urban development, environmental protection and infrastructure development.

This wide range of activities requires extensive cooperation with local authorities, state ministries, chambers of industry and commerce and relationship banks - a challenge which a development banker at NRW.BANK must be willing to accept.

We attach special importance to strong project management skills, profound financing expertise, an understanding of political processes as well as a keen awareness of profit drivers and cost factors.

University graduates have two possibilities to join NRW.BANK:

University graduates may join any of NRW.BANK’s business units at any time subject to availability of vacant positions. New entrants will immediately assume responsibility in a clearly defined, challenging task in line with their respective qualifications and previous experience and benefit from supporting seminars and training. This way of joining NRW.BANK is preferred both by university graduates and the Bank.

In individual cases, the Bank offers a trainee programme in selected areas.

The programme gives performance-oriented and motivated juniors exposure to previously agreed aspects of business management and IT. Trainees who have completed the programme have a clear idea and specific knowledge of tasks, functions and management control at NRW.BANK as well as of the interaction between strategically important business units.

For a period of approx. 12 months, trainees will work in 6 to 10 different areas.
These areas are agreed before the start of the programme in accordance with the applicant’s knowledge and the orientation of the programme.
On-the-job training means that trainees will be involved in day-to-day business as well as in specific projects of the respective business unit.
The trainees additionally participate in seminars, specific training courses and personal growth seminars.

- Subject of studies - Duration of studies - Examination grades - Practical experience from training or practicals - Social skills - Commitment - Responsibility - Determination.

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... because you will be trained in an environment that is all about fascinating projects and the future of people and the economy.

NRW.BANK trains school-leavers in two interesting professions:

You will get to know different business units and staff units of our Bank and learn the essential elements of banking as well as of office management, organisation and personnel management. You will be familiarised with specific tasks and processes of business management and banking and be involved in producing results. Needless to say, you will be using state-of-the-art communication and information techniques and equipment. Your training will be complemented by specific banking seminars, IT courses as well as customer- and team-oriented training courses.

These 3,5 years integrated studies combine academic working techniques at the Fachhochschule für Oekonomie & Management with interesting bank-specific work in the different business units of NRW.BANK. This way, you will acquire valuable bank-specific know-how combined with practical experience as the perfect springboard for your career in the banking sector.

These 3,5 years integrated studies combine academic working techniques at the Fachhochschule für Oekonomie & Management with interesting bank- and it-specific work in the different business units of NRW.BANK. This way, you will acquire valuable bank-and it-specific know-how combined with practical experience as the perfect springboard for your career in the banking sector.

NRW.BANK offers students in banking-related courses temporary jobs to allow them to gain professional experience in a potential future position and to provide them with a sense of direction for their studies.

This offer is specifically targeted at

• advanced students in courses with an emphasis on economics and banking (e.g. bank management, capital market, financing) or
• advanced students of informatics/mathematics with economic orientation or of economic engineering

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