Senior Policy Advisor- Public Administration Reform Expert

Main Responsibilities

1. Advisory and liaison role

• Provide high quality advice to partner countries to design and support reforms to assess reform progress and to assist partner countries and the European Commission (EC)to design and manage technical assistance for public governance and public administration reforms;
• Work with the partner countries to develop joint approaches and facilitate the sharing of knowledge and information;
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with senior officials of partner countries the EC and colleagues in other international organisations;
• Follow technical discussions in other fora on the subject and represent SIGMA in meetings with bilateral and multilateral donors on substantive issues as well as donor coordination and cooperation and development of new initiatives;
• Collaborate and coordinate with colleagues in the rest of the SIGMA programme as required;
• Ensure ongoing active liaison with the relevant parts of the EC the OECD and other donors;
• Represent SIGMA in partner countries and EC forums and in other international forums.

2. Country management role analytical and thematic work

• Coordinate SIGMAs activities in the relevant country or countries ensuring coherence with agreed priorities in the country and region.
• Implement and monitor a tailored approach to public governance reform in the partner countries identifying and resolving problems as necessary.
•  Lead monitoring and assessment of the countrys progress against the agreed roadmap and coordinate an assessment report for the EC.
• Carry out work as a subject matter expert in other countries in any of the SIGMA regions as required.
• Carry out draft and contribute to thematic regional and country specific policy papers and other analytical outputs.

3. Project management role work programme and communication

• Participate in the design planning and organisation of the programme of work and budget management;
• Design and manage SIGMA technical assistance and cooperation projects involving operational activities such as budget management contracting and overseeing the work of external consultants and designing and overseeing quality control processes on the relevant projects;
• As a member of one or more professional groups contribute to further development of Public Administration principles framework maintaining and growing SIGMAs professional expertise and knowledge base; maintain and update own knowledge and skills through continuing professional development activities.

Qualifications :

Ideal Candidate Profile

Academic background

• Advanced university degree in law political science public administration public management human resource management business administration or other relevant disciplines.

Professional background

• Extensive knowledge and professional experience (a minimum of eight years) of European Union (EU) member countries public administrations;
• Extensive experience in initiating developing and implementing reform programmes in the public sector preferably in the fields of civil/public service HRM and service delivery/digital government;
• Experience and skills managing people projects and budgets;
• Good comparative knowledge of public governance systems of the EU Members states with deeper knowledge of the areas listed above;
• Extended professional network in EU Member States;
• Extensive experience as advisor to or interlocutor with ministers and top officials and other key stakeholders (e.g. parliamentarians and representatives of civil society);
• Outreach communication and public presentation in international fora experience;
• Professional experience as a civil servant or equivalent public sector role in a national/federal or regional administration would be an advantage;
• Experience working at a senior level in relevant functions would be an advantage;
• Experience working at the central civil service coordination body would be an advantage;
• Good knowledge and professional experience in the area of organisation of central government and accountability (access to information oversight institutions administrative procedures multilevel governance) and relevant assessment frameworks would be an advantage;
• Good knowledge of the situation in a number of the partner countries of SIGMA programme and experience working in these countries would be an advantage.

Tools

• Microsoft Office Package

Core Competencies

• OECD staff are expected to demonstrate behaviours aligned to six core competencies which will be assessed as part of this hiring processes: Vision and Strategy (Level 3; Enable People (Level 2; Ethics and Integrity (Level 2; Collaboration and Horizontality (Level 3; Achieve Results (Level 3; Innovate and Embrace Change (Level 3.
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Languages

• Fluency in one of the two OECD official languages (English and French) with a commitment to reach a good working level in the other;
• Knowledge of SIGMA partner country languages would be an asset.

Closing Date

• This vacancy will be filled as soon as possible and applications should reach us no later than 23h59 11 April 2025 (Paris time).

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Selection Process

For retained candidates the selection process may include a videorecorded interview jobbased assessment and panel interviews. Indicative schedule for recruitment process is as follows jobbased assessment in May and panel interviews in June.

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