Overview
The Head of Politico-Military Department (S3) is responsible for defining the strategic direction of the department and ensuring the relevance and implementation of its programmes, with a focus on transnational threats and law enforcement co-operation.
Key Responsibilities
- Defining the strategic direction of the Politico-Military Department (PMD).
- Allocating, monitoring and providing timely accurate information on the implementation of necessary resources for the Politico-Military programme.
- Ensuring the relevance of the PMD programme, with a focus on transnational threats and law enforcement co-operation.
- Keeping abreast of relevant political, security, and programmatic developments.
- Leading the development, co-ordination, and implementation of POiB activities related to counter-terrorism, preventing and countering violent extremism (VERLT), organized crime, drug trafficking, cybersecurity, disarmament and non-proliferation, border security and management, economic connectivity and cross-border trade facilitation, democratic governance, and youth mainstreaming.
- Ensuring the full implementation of the Politico-Military programme in compliance with the OSCE Common Regulatory Management System (CRMS).
- Ensuring coherence and quality of all PMD projects.
- Supervising National Officers responsible for thematic sub-units within PMD.
- Ensuring close co-operation with relevant departments on matters related to project development, programme co-ordination, budgeting, reporting, and compliance with OSCE rules and regulations.
- Co-ordinating with other Programme Managers to ensure alignment of their respective programmes with the POiB mandate.
- Identifying and maintaining regular communication with relevant local and international stakeholders.
- Co-ordinating the preparation of outreach and communication materials describing PMD activities and achievements.
- Ensuring timely and accurate reporting on programme implementation.
- Representing the POiB at international donor co-ordination meetings related to OSCE commitments.
- Performing other duties as required.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five (5) years of relevant project management experience.
- Proven experience in preparing analytical and project reports.
- A minimum of six (6) years (eight (8) years with a professional qualification or a bachelor's degree) of relevant, diversified and progressively responsible professional experience, including at least three (3) years at the management level relevant to the actual position.
- Extensive experience in political reform, law enforcement reforms, support to political parties, early warning, conflict prevention mechanisms and/or combating transnational threats.
- Proven management, in particular project management and supervisory experience, including strong leadership skills.
- Working experience in international organizations, relevant state institutions and/or experience in OSCE field operations in the field of politico-military activities.
- Experience in liaising with governmental and non-governmental organizations.
- Experience in identifying potential relevant programmes and projects and their subsequent implementation, monitoring and reporting.
- Previous international work experience, preferably within field operations in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), especially in the Central Asia region.
Qualifications
- Advanced (second-level) university degree in international politics, security studies, law enforcement, or other relevant field and/or professional qualifications from certified award-granting bodies and/or from military or police educational institutions may be accepted in lieu of a university degree.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two years of additional qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the second-level university degree.
