Programme Officer, Energy Security

Background:
This position is open for secondment only and participating States are kindly reminded that all costs in relation to an assignment at the Secretariat must be borne by their authorities.

The OSCE has a comprehensive approach to security that encompasses politico-military, economic and environmental, and human aspects. It therefore addresses a wide range of security-related concerns, including arms control, confidence
- and security-building measures, human rights, combating human trafficking, national minorities, democratization, policing strategies, counter-terrorism and economic and environmental activities. All 57 participating States enjoy equal status, and decisions are taken by consensus on a politically, but not legally binding basis.

The OSCE Secretariat in Vienna assists the Chairpersonship in its activities, and provides operational and administrative support to the field operations, and, as appropriate, to other institutions.

The OCEEA deals with economic and environmental issues, including energy, operating under the premise that promoting economic prosperity and co-operation on environmental problems can contribute to international security and stability. The Energy Security Team implements the OCEEA’s mandates in the field of energy security, in particular with regards to the protection of critical energy infrastructure, the promotion of sustainable energy and energy efficiency and the facilitation of dialogue on energy security issues.

Tasks and Responsibilities:
As Programme Officer, Energy Security, you will support OCEEA’s energy security dialogue, analysis and project activities in the areas of energy security, renewable energy, energy efficiency, protection of critical energy infrastructure from natural and man-made disasters and other aspects of energy security and related challenges.

You will develop, implement and administer projects and activities in the field of energy security by performing a variety of operational activities and conceptual analyses fundamental to the formulation, administration and evaluation of projects and activities, by holding responsibility for project deliverables and team supervision, and by overseeing the work of external experts and negotiating activities with partners.

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.

More specifically, you will be tasked with the following:

- 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 logístical 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.

Necessary Qualifications:

- Second-level university degree in Economics and/or Business Administrati