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Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz

Fully Qualified Lawyers

Original title: Volljuristinnen und Volljuristen (m/w/d)

Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz
Köln, Berlin201-500 employees
Full-time
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  • Start Date

    On request

  • Sector

    Öffentlicher Dienst / Verfassungsschutz

  • Salary

    Competitive salary

Listing data as of October 16, 2026

About this Apprenticeship

The business area authorities (GB) belonging to the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community (BMI) are recruiting several fully qualified lawyers (m/f/d) for the higher non-technical administrative service of the Federation. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution offers fully qualified lawyers outstanding conditions for a successful career start as a junior executive. You usually start within a trainee program and gain insights into various departments of the BfV. Through leadership training, you will acquire the necessary leadership skills and gain a comprehensive overview of the security architecture of the Federal Republic of Germany. For fully qualified lawyers with professional experience, there is the possibility of direct assignments without completing the trainee program.

What You'll Learn

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution offers fully qualified lawyers outstanding conditions for a successful career start as a junior executive. You usually start within a trainee program and gain insights into various departments of the BfV. Through leadership training, you will acquire the necessary leadership skills and gain a comprehensive overview of the security architecture of the Federal Republic of Germany. For fully qualified lawyers with professional experience, there is the possibility of direct assignments without completing the trainee program. Diverse topics in domestic intelligence, in particular: matters relating to extremism/terrorism, data protection/constitutional law issues, information technology and telecommunications law matters, civil service/labor law matters.

Requirements

Completion of the first and second state examinations in law, each with at least a 'satisfactory' grade; willingness and ability to assume leadership responsibility; good English skills are desirable; German citizenship; willingness to undergo an extended security clearance under the Security Clearance Act; you have the ability to systematically grasp and process complex facts, argue convincingly, and make decisions. You are cooperative and work reliably even under pressure. Ideally, you have an interest and commitment to social and socio-political issues.

What We Offer

Upon fulfillment of civil service and budgetary requirements, appointment as a civil servant in the higher non-technical administrative service; alternatively, a permanent employment in salary group 13 according to the Collective Agreement for the Public Service (TVöD Bund); payment of an intelligence service allowance of €250.00; civil servants up to federal salary group A14 are also eligible to apply; usually entry via a trainee program; assumption of leadership responsibility, accompanied by leadership seminars at the Academy for the Protection of the Constitution; diverse topics in domestic intelligence, in particular: matters relating to extremism/terrorism, data protection/constitutional law issues, information technology and telecommunications law matters, civil service/labor law matters; flexible working hours and work-life balance; good career prospects; duty stations in Cologne and Berlin.

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