URGENT VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

General Information

• Project: EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine
• Title: Head of Field Office in Palanca (Moldova)
• Duty Station: Palanca (Moldova)

THIS POSITION IS OPEN TO EU CITIZENS ONLY.

Background

The European Commission and UNDP have undertaken preparatory work towards the establishment of an EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine. This Mission will notably help enhance the capacities of Moldovan and Ukrainian services to adequately ensure customs and border controls and border surveillance along their common border. Posts of Border Monitors will be filled by civil servants seconded from the national administrations of EU Member States, including customs administrations, border police, or other relevant national agencies.

The Mission’s ‘core staff’ will be competitively selected on the basis of individually submitted applications corresponding to the enclosed job descriptions, and will be directly hired and remunerated by the Mission. A vacancy for the ‘core staff’ posts is being published on October 22^nd in the international press (‘The Economist’).

The Border Assistance Mission is expected to commence on 1 December 2005 and UNDP is expected to undertake all necessary advance work to ensure that staff, project offices and equipment and ready by early December.

The initial duration of the assignment will be up to six months, and is funded by the EC Rapid Reaction Mechanism. It is expected that the Mission will be continued for additional 18 months, funded by Tacis. Upon satisfactory performance of duties, Mission staff will be asked to extend their assignment to the Tacis-financed phase of the Border Assistance Mission.

Description of Responsibilities

Heads of Local Offices will have either a customs or a border police background, and will be in charge of organizing the work of field staff, in co­ordination with the Head of Operations and Head îf Mission. They will be located permanently at the related ÂÑP. They will be in charge with overseeing the on-the-job training and support delivered by field staff to their operational customs or border guards counterparts in a live work environment, and of practical work organization of field staff. On the basis of UA / MD legislation, field staff will, under authority of the Head of Office, provide pro-active advice and support to their counterparts in the practical working environment, in order to assist them through the transmission of EU good / best practices. Heads of Offices will be in frequent contact with the Odessa-based Head îf Operations, and will regularly report to him/her on the basis of agreed reporting templates. They will also organize work regarding their particular BCP on the basis of the schedule of work developed in mission HQ.

Competencies

Heads of Local Offices will be active civil servants of EU member stales (customs or border police administration) at middle-management level. They will have at least 15 years of relevant experience, of which at least five years at middle management level. They will have corresponding national security clearance and will respect confidentiality clauses regarding any sensitive / confidential information they would receive or handle in the exercise of their duties. Staff should have very good command of written and spoken English, which will be the working language of the mission. Knowledge of Russian and/îr Ukrainian and/or Moldovan/Romanian will he a distinct asset. Earlier international exposure, the ability to work in a multicultural environment, or participation in comparable reform projects in third countries will be distinct assets.

Qualified women are encouraged to apply

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for interviews