National Project Officer
- OSCE Azerbaijan
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Elanın qoyulma tarixi: 17.03.2013Vakansiyaya müraciət tarixi bitmişdir.
İşin təsviri
National Project Officer
Grade: NP 1
Type of Appointment: Fixed term
Organizational Unit: OSCE Office in Baku
Date for Entry on Duty: 1 May 2013
Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Democratisation Unit and the overall supervision of the Head/Deputy Head of Office, the incumbent provides technical and logistic support for the implementation of project related activities in the areas of elections and political parties. This includes the organisation of capacity building activities, including seminars and meetings, as well as representing the Office at other national and international events. The incumbent develops, implements and assesses projects and related activities in all regions across the country, co-operating with all programmatic units on cross cutting issues, as required.
Tasks and Responsibilities
1. Project management. The incumbent develops, implements, monitors and evaluates projects related to elections and political parties, including the design and preparation of capacity-building and public awareness raising events for the benefit of Government officials, political party members, civil society and other relevant stakeholders. He/she maintains regular contacts with implementing partners, political party members and civil society, performing other activities related to projects’ identification, development and strategic planning, including but not limited to individual meetings, round tables, conferences, co-ordination meetings and ad hoc interviews.
2. Establishing and maintaining working relationships with local and central government authorities, civil society actors and other national and international interlocutors. The incumbent conducts meetings with relevant counterparts in connection with the Office’s support to election and political parties related activities, including technical co-ordination meetings. He/she pre-drafts related internal briefing notes and reports.
3. Performance of other duties, as required by the Head of the Democratisation Unit or the Head/Deputy Head of Office.
Necessary Qualifications
• University-level degree in political and/or social sciences, law.
• Minimum two years professional work experience in democratization, either nationally or internationally, with special focus on elections, political parties, civil society, collaboration with government(s), and/or the implementation and/or evaluation of action plans.
• Excellent written and communication language skills in English and local official language; knowledge of Russian will be an asset.
• Computer literate with practical experience in Microsoft applications.
• Ability to work with people of different nationalities, religions and cultural backgrounds.
• Demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity, and an ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities.
• Holding a valid driving license.
Social benefits will include possibility of participation in the Vanbreda medical insurance scheme and the OSCE Provident Fund. Gross salary per month is 1,979 EUR.
How To Apply
All applicants are strongly encouraged to apply online, using the OSCE online application link, found at http://www.osce.org/employment. In case of technical difficulties with online application, applicants may submit a duly completed OSCE offline application form which can be downloaded from “Links/ Off-line application form” on the OSCE public website http://www.osce.org, and send it by e-mail to [email protected] with vacancy number quoted in the title.
Please note that applications received after the deadline, submitted in different formats than the OSCE Application Form and/or without reference to the vacancy number (if submitted through e-mail) or in other languages than the English language would not be considered.
This vacancy is open for competition only amongst nationals of Azerbaijan Republic.
The OSCE is committed to achieving a better balance of women and men within the Organization. Female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications is 8 April 2013. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
The OSCE retains the discretion to re-advertise the vacancy, to cancel the recruitment, to offer an appointment at a lower grade or to offer an appointment with a modified job description or for a different duration.
