Overview
The Senior Inspector ensures that safeguards activities are conducted effectively and efficiently in accordance with relevant agreements and protocols. The role involves providing leadership, guidance, and advice to staff, contributing expertise to management, and coordinating divisional resources.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure that facility and site safeguards approaches are prepared and remain up to date.
- Plan inspection activities in accordance with safeguards implementation requirements.
- Reviews and develops proposals for verification activities and the development of State level safeguards approaches.
- Prepare, in cooperation with other Senior Inspectors, annual implementation plans for States in the Section.
- Monitor their implementation, and update them if necessary in accordance with the State-level safeguards approach, to ensure that adequate activities are conducted to draw and maintain the safeguards conclusion for each State.
- Prepare for, and participate in, inspections, complementary accesses and design information verifications on a limited basis.
- Coordinate actions for the identification and resolution of anomalies as necessary.
- In cooperation with the Section Head, supervise the Section's human resources with regard to the processes for which he/she is responsible in a matrix management structure performing .
- Perform supervisory functions in this a matrix management environment and carrying out tasks assigned by the Section Head.
- Organize and participate in negotiation meetings with regional/State authorities.
- Represent the Section/Division in Department meetings, working groups and other assignments as required.
- Identify the training and development needs of Section staff and monitor the implementation thereof (e.g. in safeguards verification methods).
- Guide and support on-the-job training for Section staff.
- Provide the lead technical advice regarding equipment, financial and human resources planning for the Section/Division.
- Assess and plan budget and procurement needs for the Section/Division and map future resource requirements.
- Lead work to ensure that existing policies, processes and procedures related to safeguards implementation are continuously adapted to take into account the latest requirements/developments.
- Ensure the effective and efficient implementation and evaluation of safeguards activities at nuclear facilities, sites and locations in cooperation with relevant officers in accordance with Divisional practices, liaising with support Divisions as required
- Facilitate and lead change management initiatives anticipating needs, fostering innovation and dedicating the appropriate resources and monitoring implementation.
- Lead work within the Section/Division to compile information needed for the Safeguards Implementation Report (SIR) and the IAEA's Annual Report.
- If requested by the Section Head or Divisional Director, the Senior Inspector may also act as the Divisional Quality Manager and / or Divisional Radiation Protection Officer (ensuring that activities are carried out safely in accordance with the provisions of the IAEAs Radiation Safety Regulations (RSR-RPO.01-06.2007) and any applicable national legal provisions and regulations).
Required Experience
- Minimum of 10 years of combined relevant experience in the nuclear field (nuclear research, nuclear industry, nuclear facility or in nuclear process design) at the national and/or international level.
- Proven experience in leading teams and managing resources towards the achievement of stated objectives.
- Extensive experience in non-proliferation activities, including in the planning and performance of inspections and complementary accesses (CAs), design information verification, data and information analyses, preparation of inspection and CA reports, and the development of follow-up action plans.
- Experience in drafting technical documents.
- Experience in the development of safeguards approaches at the facility-level and at the State-level.
- Experience in the handling of administrative processes according to the IAEAs policies and procedures an asset.
Qualifications
- Master's Degree - Advanced degree in science, physics, chemistry, engineering, information analysis, or international relations with an emphasis on a nuclear discipline.
- Bachelor's Degree - University degree in a stipulated field with two years of additional relevant experience may be considered in lieu of an advanced degree.
- Studies and / or experience should be supplemented by in-depth theoretical and practical training in areas relevant to safeguards.
