Kyrgyzstan: Head of Police Affairs, OSCE Centre in Bishkek (VNKYRS00734)

Requirements include, but are not limited to:

• Graduation from a recognized police training school

• Minimum 10 years of diversified and progressively responsible police experience including at least 12 months at management level relevant to the actual post

• Candidates should have held a high-level command or operational management position in a national police environment and/or significant work experience with law enforcement bodies

• Knowledge of International Police Standards and human rights

• Police administrative courses on human resources management and general police management

• Proven ability to work with high-level government officials and institutions, as well as the ability to establish contact and develop confident relations with civil society

• Project management experience

• Extensive experience in police system and legal reform and/or public administration reform

• Law enforcement development experience within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

• Knowledge of regional political developments, legislative and police reform issues in Central Asia

• Strong analytical, organizational, communication and interpersonal skills; ability to compile and analyze relevant information

• Ability to work under pressure and within limited time frames

• Demonstrated ability and willingness to work as a member of a team, with people of different cultural and religious backgrounds, different gender, and diverse political views, while maintaining impartiality and objectivity

• Ability to operate windows applications, including word processing and e-mail

• Very good oral and written English communication skills

• Working knowledge of the Russian and/or Kyrgyz languages (desired)

Tasks and Responsibilities:

The OSCE Centre in Bishkek was established in late 1998 and seeks to have a lasting effect within five strategic priority areas: strengthening of relations between communities; fostering good governance and combating corruption; fighting against terrorism; promoting human rights protection and the rule of law; and furthering gender equality.

The Centre assists the authorities in reforming policing in Kyrgyzstan, in particular through the introduction of community-based policing principles. The goal is to turn the police from a force into a service, and to build trust, confidence, and inter-communal tolerance. The Centre's activities include technical as well as methodological assistance.

Under the supervision of the Head of the Politico-Military Dimension, the Head of Police Affairs will perform the following duties:

1. Defines the strategy and necessary resources for all police-related programmatic activities;
2. Oversees and directs the development, co-ordination and implementation of all police-related programmatic activities, ensuring they are adequately monitored, controlled, evaluated and reported on;
3. Provides analysis and advice to the Head of Politico-Military Dimension on all policing-related issues, with a particular emphasis on those related to the police reform process;
4. Liaises at the highest level with the Ministry of Interior and its territorial units, and actively develops a good working relationship/environment with them;
5. Advises the Office of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Interior and parliamentarians on international policing principles/good practices and issues relating to police reform;
6. Assists in arranging OSCE regional events, inter alia, regional seminars and visits to the area by OSCE delegations, as well as other events with OSCE participation;
7. Supervises the work of seven subordinate staff;
8. Performs other duties as required.

PAE Government Services, under contract for the U.S. Department of State, is seekingapplications from well-qualified U.S. citizens for the following position within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE):

Head of Police Affairs

Level: Middle Management

Area of Expertise: Civilian Police

Vacancy number: VNKYRS00734

Duty station: Bishkek

Apply by: April 15

View the job description:

https://www.pae.com/careers-react-opportunities

In order to receive full consideration, interested parties should create an online application and enter the relevant vacancy number at: https://www.pae.com/careers-react by April 15. Only finalists will be contacted. PAE-REACT will interview short-listed candidates in order to make nominations by the OSCE deadline.