Assistant Project Officer

Background:
Please note that this is an extra-budgetary position with the duration from as soon as possible until 30 November 2025.

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 Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (SR/CTHB) represents the OSCE at the political level on anti-trafficking issues. The Office of the SR/CTHB assists OSCE participating States in the implementation of commitments and full usage of recommendations set forth in the OSCE Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings. The Office provides a co-ordinating function among OSCE structures and institutions involved in combating trafficking in human beings (CTHB) with a focus on the following activities: enhancing the awareness and understanding of THB across the OSCE region; policy planning and advocacy especially in the area of emerging trends of THB and effective approaches to combating THB; and direct assistance to participating States in practical and technical areas, at their request.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

- Supporting project implementation through all steps of the project cycle, by assisting in needs analysis and formulation of project outcomes, outputs and activities, including forecasting of budgets, implementing project activities through participation in the selection and oversight of consultants, implementing partners and vendors;
- Describing and presenting progress of ongoing project activities, investigating designated project outputs, discussing findings with supervisor to identify implications for the work of the unit, discussing rationale and context of project activities, considering the alternative methods for project design, management, problem identification and problem resolution; maintaining institutional memory or other documentation systems to record programme and project history and ongoing activities;
- Assisting with public relations and communications regarding the ExB project by preparing press releases, presentations, speeches, statements, newsletters, media articles, responses to requests from media, content for OSR/CTHB social media platforms, by liaising with the relevant OSCE departments, by disseminating information about the project to interested parties, by monitoring internal and external media for information about the ExB project, by preparing and managing media events;
- Assisting with fundraising activities for the ExB project by preparing correspondence for delegations to the OSCE requesting funding, preparing and attending meetings with donors and OSCE departments involved in fundraising for OSCE projects, preparing presentations, one-pagers and other visual materials regarding the project and funding needs, liaising with other OSCE departments involved in fundraising for OSCE projects, etc;
- Conducting thematic and geographical research on topics related to the ExB project by analyzing internal and external resources, discussing with experts and organizations knowledgeable on the topic, and using other relevant methods in this regard.
- Performing related duties as assigned.

Necessary Qualifications:

- Second-level university degree in international relations, law, political sciences, human rights, public policy, public administration or another related field. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of relevant experience will be accepted in lieu of the second-level university degree;
- A minimum of one year of professional experience in the field of trafficking in human beings or human rights within an international/multilateral context with a relevant second-level university degree. A minimum of two years of professional experience in the field of trafficking in human beings or human rights within an international/multilateral context will be accepted with a relevant first-level university degree;
- Demonstrated experience in project management and implementation of complex projects;
- Demonstrated experience in implementing training and capacity building events;
- Professional fluency in English; knowledge of other OSCE languages would be an asset;
- Demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity, and an ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities;
- Ability and will