Team Leader

Team Leader (Statistical Analysis)(P5) - (2025/0438 (010193))

Organization: SGIM-Nuclear Fuel Cycle Analysis Section

Primary Location: Austria-Vienna-Vienna-IAEA Headquarters

Job Posting: 2025-08-08, 7:55:03 AM

Closing Date: 2025-08-28, 4:59:00 PM

Duration in Months: 36

Contract Type: Fixed Term - Regular

Probation Period: 1 Year

Full Competitive Recruitment: Yes

Organizational Setting

The Department of Safeguards carries out the IAEA’s duties and responsibilities as the world’s nuclear inspectorate, supporting global efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. The primary role of the Department is to develop and implement IAEA safeguards to ensure that there is no diversion of declared nuclear material from peaceful activities and no indications of undeclared nuclear material or activities in a State as a whole.

The Department comprises nuclear safeguards inspectors, responsible for carrying out inspections and verifications of all-safeguards relevant information for nuclear facilities in over 180 States; and technical staff responsible for a wide range of activities including: developing concepts and approaches for implementing safeguards; developing and maintaining safeguards equipment; providing analytical and laboratory services for sample analysis; collecting, evaluating and analysing safeguards-relevant information; providing information and communication technology infrastructure and services; and providing programme coordination support.

The Division of Information Management (SGIM) implements state of the art methodologies and techniques for the collection, processing and analysis of a range of safeguards-relevant information, including declarations submitted by States, evaluations resulting from the analysis of samples or measurements collected during infield activities, and information from open sources, including nuclear trade-related data and satellite imagery. Staff perform data validation and complex information analysis and evaluation to support infield activities and provide key input to the State evaluation process.

Main Purpose

Reporting to the Section Head, the Team Leader (Statistical Analysis) manages and leads a team of safeguards data analysts in terms of planning, supervision and implementation of activities in the most efficient way to meet Divisional and Departmental strategic objectives. The Team Leader (Statistical Analysis) contributes to the IAEA’s overall objectives by maintaining and further developing an effective and efficient verification system through the implementation and further development of statistical methodologies for the analysis of declared data and verification measurement results and the design of safeguards approaches based on probabilistic concepts.

Role

The Team Leader (Statistical Analysis) is: (1) a manager of safeguards data analysts utilizing innovative and effective management practices to achieve objectives; (2) a specialist, providing comprehensive advice on the implementation of statistical and probabilistic methodologies; (3) an expert analyst, leading the regular review of material balance evaluations and other statistical and probabilistic studies and ensuring that the corresponding information is efficiently processed and disseminated within the Department; (4) an adviser to other team leaders, Section Head, Director and other departmental counterparts on probabilistic verification approaches, material balance evaluation as well as analytical methods and measurement techniques used for safeguards verification; and (5) a mentor providing guidance, training, and direction to team members.

Functions / Key Results Expected

Manage a team of statistical data evaluators for the timely production of high-quality material balance evaluation reports and flow and trend analyses in support of the detection of the diversion of nuclear material from declared facilities.

Coordinate the team’s contributions to the yearly Safeguards Implementation Report (SIR) and State Evaluation Reports (SERs).

Guide the design of optimized verification schemes based on the use of statistical and probabilistic methodologies (e.g. sampling plans, random inspection (RI) schemes) and in the determination of their detection power.

Lead the development and implementation of Near Real Time Accountancy (NRTA) systems for large plutonium Bulk Handling Facilities (BHF) as well as the statistical evaluation of their results.

Ensure the timely production of high-quality Destructive Assay (DA) reports and the liaison with the Safeguards Office of Analytical Services (SGAS).

Supervise the collection and analysis of Destructive Assay (DA) and Non-Destructive Assay (NDA) results and the analysis of trends over time, as well as the statistical analysis of paired data for the estimation of the operators’ and inspectors’ measurement uncertainties.

Coordinate the review and improvement of currently applied statistical methodologies and the development and implementa