Director of Internal Oversight

Background:
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 Office of Internal Oversight (OIO) is part of the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna, Austria. OIO is responsible for planning and delivering internal audits, investigations, and independent evaluations of the Organization's activities, including Institutions and Field Operations. The work of OIO assures the adequacy of governance, risk management, and internal control, ensures compliance with the Organization's internal control framework, and enhances performance and the efficiency and effectiveness of operations.

Tasks and Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Secretary General, the Director of Internal Oversight is a member of the senior leadership team and provides strategic direction for OIO in planning and delivering its activities.

The Director of the OIO ensures that the endeavours of the Office to promote accountability and professionalism and to foster a culture of learning and improvement are adhered to. She/he submits an OIO annual report, through the OSCE Secretary General, to the Heads of OSCE Delegations of the participating States.

Specifically, she/he will be responsible for:

- Ensuring that the Office's work conforms to generally accepted international auditing, investigation and evaluation standards and best practices, within the scope of the OSCE Internal Oversight Mandate, and developing internal methodology, tools and techniques to ensure excellence in the conduct of the Office's work;
- Contributing to the development of strategies for safeguarding and protecting the Organization's interests in pursuit of its goals and objectives; assisting in discharging the Secretary General's duties, including the provision of impartial, objective and sound advice;
- Preparing an annual, risk and priority-based oversight work plan, which will deliver the services and outputs required by the OSCE Internal Oversight Mandate and the OSCE Evaluation Instruction; overseeing implementation of the work plan and ensuring outputs are within time, cost and quality standards;
- Overseeing an internal audit portfolio that focuses on key risks and opportunities to strengthen the Organization's governance, risk management, internal controls and value-for-money, using modern internal audit practices in accordance with professional standards;
- Guiding independent evaluations in order to improve the relevance, impact, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability and performance of OSCE programmes, projects and methods of operation;
- Leading an investigation function which examines cases of alleged fraud, misconduct, malfeasance, mismanagement, waste of resources, or other violations of the Organization's Common Regulatory Management Framework;
- Creating a positive working environment, providing guidance to staff of the Office and helping them to meet their full potential;
- Performing other related duties as assigned.

Necessary Qualifications:

- Second-level university degree in public or business administration, auditing, accountancy, law or a related field; professional certification (e.g. CIA, CPA, CA, CFE, CISA or similar) from an officially recognized oversight body; 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;
- A minimum of 12 years of relevant professional experience specifically in the programmatic and operational aspects of audit work, as well as evaluation, value for money assurance and internal investigations;
- Proven track record as a senior manager in audit/oversight functions in an international organization or at a national public sector level, with a good knowledge of the latest methodologies, requirements and developments in the audit, evaluation, and investigation fields in the international community;
- Leadership skills in a multilateral setting with the ability to establish and maintain effective and constructive working relations in a highly political environment with people of different national and cultural backgrounds;
- Proven ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities;
- Strong sense of impartiality and objectivity and positive attitude towards the Organization and its goals;
- Highly