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Head, Industry Verification
Branch

Post Level

D1

Closing Date

22 June
2009 (26 days left)

Vacancy Ref

VER/IVB/HIVB/F0211/D-1/04-09

This
appointment is for a three-year duration with a six-month
probationary period. The OPCW is a non-career organisation
with limited staff tenure. The total length of service for
Professional staff shall not exceed 7 years. The
Director-General retains the discretion not to make any
appointment to this vacancy, to make an appointment at a lower
grade, or to make an appointment with a modified job
description. Several vacancies may be filled

Branch

Industry
Verification Branch

Division

Verification
Division

Date

23 April
2009

Principal Functions

Requirements

Under the
supervision of the Director Verification Division the
incumbent performs the following duties:

• Plans,
manages and controls the work programme and priorities of the
Branch; supervising 5 professional industry officers and one
GS Secretary; planning, managing and controlling the Branch
budget to ensure maximum fiscal responsibility and efficacy;
managing and quality controlling the industry verification
process which includes planning, preparation and maintenance
of the industry long term, medium term and short term
inspection planning, finalisation of each inspection and
technical editing and IVB contributions to the negotiation of
relevant facility agreements; managing the compliance of all
of IVB with the OPCW confidentiality policy including
supervisory functions in relation to CMRs, audits and
development of SCN work flows; overseeing IVB support of
industry related activities of the Executive Council and
Conference by industry officers; overseeing IVB support for
activities of the Secretariat including their work with other
Divisions and Branches; overseeing and quality controlling the
provision of chemical and engineering technological
information by industry officers to Management, States Parties
and the Secretariat; performing personnel management functions
including preparing and modifying, as appropriate, IVB vacancy
notices, implementing the PMAS process, and
assigning/reassigning tasks as required.
• Supervises and
quality assures specific industry data bases on a continuing
basis (inspection data bases protected by confidentiality
regime, risk assessments protected by the confidentiality
regime, national backgrounders, State Party responses to
Conference, Executive Council, Industry Cluster and
Secretariat surveys, ITL assessments, etc.);
• Prepares or
quality controls preparation of industry contributions to
inspector training, National Authority training, Regional and
National Seminars, etc. (5-6 per year);
• Prepares or
quality controls preparation of industry briefing materials on
status of article VI implementation, specific questions in
relation to global industry and Article VI policy issues, for
the Director-General, Deputy Director General and Directors,
as required (1-2 per week);
• Recommends and drafts
responses to Secretariat ( Director-General, Deputy
Director-General, Director Verification Division)
correspondence mainly involving State Parties with content
involving policy matters, excluding FIR and Closure Letter
correspondence (10-12 per month);
• Writes operational and
policy option documents for the Secretariat (TS, DG,
non-papers, about 10 per year);
• Supervises and recommends
approval/modifications as required for Verification
SOP's;
• Serves on Secretariat Committees as required,
currently Joint Planning Meetings, Inspection Planning
Meetings, External Relations and Outreach Committee;
•
Plans inspections under Article VI of the Convention by
calculating, drafting, and supporting its defence before
Management, the Inspectorate and ABAF the following year
annual industry inspection plan for budget negotiations; and
calculating, drafting and negotiating the quarterly industry
inspection plans;
• Executes short-term planning of
allocated inspections under Article VI of the Convention,
supervises their execution and facilitates the production of
Final Inspection Reports (FIRs) by the Inspection Teams (Its)
within the provisions of the OPCW Confidentiality Regime and
the timelines of the Convention.
• Supports Executive
Council and Conference by advising and assisting the
designated Facilitators of the Industry Cluster Consultations
of the Executive Council on issues within their purview;
attending Industry Cluster Consultations as Secretariat expert
and acting as Secretary at such meetings; drafting documents
and or confirms, modifies as required documents drafted by
industry officers for the facilitators for submission to the
Executive Council; discussing issues relating to the work of
the PMOs with Delegations and providing advice to the
delegates; and attending consultations on issues relating to
the activities of the Scientific Advisory Board and drafting
documents on these issues.
• Represents the Secretariat in
contacts with outside organisations and provides inputs to
Secretariat training programs by representing the Organisation
at meetings with Head of delegations and delegates frequently
at OPCW headquarters and infrequently in capitols up to the
deputy minister level; and at industry oriented seminars and
other international functions as required.

Knowledge and Skills

• Advanced university degree
in chemical engineering or chemistry; A first level university
degree in combination with qualifying experience (minimum 15
years) may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university
degree;
• An additional advanced degree in business or
management degree (MBA) would be an asset;
• Proven record
of building and managing teams and creating an enabling work
environment, including ability to effectively supervise,
mentor, train, develop and evaluate staff;
• Tact,
discretion, and the ability to work harmoniously in a
multi-cultural environment;
• Strong analytical and
conceptual skills;
• Knowledge of computer equipment,
Windows-based word processing and databases, spreadsheet
programmes and lotus notes.

Experience

• A minimum of 13 years of
hands-on, practical in-plant experience with chemical
operations in the chemical industry, involving:
a)
industrial chemistry support for product development or
chemical production, and/or
b) conduct of plant operations;
and/or
c) chemical process design/development and process
optimisation; and /or
d) process safety activities,
including quantitative risk assessment, hazard and operability
studies, auditing, etc., and/or
e) plant design or scale-up
planning.

(note: time spent in chemical business
management, sales and/or government administration of chemical
industry will not be regarded as qualifying as relevant
experience)

• A minimum of 2 years as manager of a
chemical industrial operation.
• Experience in multiple
types of chemical operations.
• Experience with multiple
chemical technologies.
• International experience is
desirable.

Languages

Fluency in English is
essential and a good working knowledge of one of the other
official languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and
Spanish) is desirable.

Total
annual salary consists of a net annual salary (net of taxes
and before medical insurance and provident fund deductions) in
US$ and a post adjustment. The post adjustment (cost of living
allowance) is variable and subject to change without notice in
accordance with the rates as set within the UN Common System
for salaries and allowances. The figure quoted on the right,
is based on the April 2009 rate of 52.9%.

With Dependants

No Dependants

Annual Salary (USD)

$98,674

$91,206

Post Adjustment

$52,199

$48,248

Total Salary

$150,873

$139,454

Currency

USD

CANDIDATES ARE STRONGLY
ADVISED TO USE ONLY THE NEW ONLINE APPLICATION
SYSTEM.
Interested applicants who do not have internet
access, and are unable to submit an application online at
www.opcw.org, may complete the OPCW Personal History Form and
send it via fax, no. +31 (0)70 4163790, or mail.
Only
applications received before the closing date will be
considered.
Only applicants under serious consideration for
a post will be contacted.
Applications from qualified
female candidates are strongly encouraged.

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