You will report to the Senior Energy Security Adviser, while the Deputy Co-ordinator/Head of Environmental Activities will act as the second-level supervisor. You will oversee other staff members of the Energy Security Team, including JPOs and interns, including distributing workload, managing performance and guiding development.
Responsibilities:
Analysing current and emerging security related energy issues across the OSCE area including national and regional policies, energy markets and political trends to identify priorities and design effective regional activities and projects to address them.
Leading the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Extra-budgetary (ExB) projects and Unified Budget (UB) activities; preparing project proposals; defining implementation modalities; forecasting and monitoring expenditures; providing progress reports to donors; and fundraising.
Exchanging information and negotiating on energy security related issues with government officials in planning, finance, donor input co-ordination and sectoral functions, as well as with representatives of multilateral and bilateral donor agencies.
Appraising, reviewing and adjusting the programme and project outputs and activities to ensure consistency with national, regional and sectoral priorities in energy security, and with available resources; formulating and presenting such proposals on the basis of technical and substantive input in accordance with required format, developing schedules, arrangements and methods for the management of the implementation of programme and project activities, in consultation with the supervisor, technical, substantive and administrative service units.
Organizing meetings, technical seminars, and conferences in the area of energy security to support information sharing, dissemination of best practices and exchange of lessons learned, handling technical and logistical arrangements, partner coordination, drafting of agendas, briefs, speeches and meeting reports, and compiling background information and presentations.
Preparing briefing papers, reports and drafting speeches and statements to be delivered by the OCEEA senior management, the Secretary General and representatives of the Chairmanship-in-Office on these issues and other relevant areas as required.
Providing inputs into the Economic and Environmental Committee and the Economic and Environmental Forum processes and to follow-up activities, including OSCE Ministerial Council negotiations and processes;
Performing other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
Second-level university degree in Economics and/or Business Administration, Law, Geography, Natural or Social Sciences or International Relations, preferably with a focus on energy; a first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of relevant experience will be accepted in lieu of the second-level university degree.
A minimum of five years (seven years with a relevant first-level degree) of progressively responsible professional-level experience in the area of energy security and/or economic-environmental development, preferably in an international environment and covering the OSCE region.
Demonstrated experience in planning, implementing and managing donor-funded projects.
Recognized project management certification would be an asset.
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English; knowledge of other OSCE region languages would be an asset.
Proven knowledge in project management, writing of speeches and reports.
Digital literacy and proficient use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint), internet.
Demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity, and an ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities.
