Job Summary

As Talent Acquisition Associate you will be responsible for co-ordinating the recruitment and selection of international contracted positions for the OSCE Secretariat and international contracted and secondments in the field operations. This role will include drafting and issuing Vacancy Notices (VNs), overseeing the screening and selection processes, and ensuring the timely deployment of qualified personnel, adhering to Staff Regulations and Rules, and other relevant administrative guidelines.

You will report to the Talent Acquisition Officer, while the Chief, Talent Acquisition acts as your second-level supervisor.

You will play a lead role in delivering talent acquisition services and contributing proposals for improvements in the efficiency of recruitment processes.

Requirements

• Completed secondary education, as well as specialized training in human resources, business administration, or a related field is commonly required;
• A minimum of six years of working experience in talent acquisition and/or human resources;
• Proven knowledge of contemporary practices in talent acquisition;
• Proven ability to take a lead role and provide technical advice and guidance for colleagues in their functional area and to work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve objectives and generate positive results, with responsibility to respond to internal and external service needs promptly and proactively;
• Experience with Oracle-based systems and recruitment software;
• Ability to extract and format data and to solve operational problems;
• Professional fluency in English with excellent communication (both oral and written) skills; working knowledge of another OSCE official language is an asset;
• Demonstrated ability to handle work quickly and accurately under time constraints;
• Ability to organize own work, set priorities and meet deadlines with a demonstrated sense of confidentiality, initiative and good judgment;
• General knowledge of GenAI applications and prompts would be considered an asset;
• Demonstrated gender awareness and sensitivity, and an ability to integrate a gender perspective into tasks and activities;
• Ability and willingness to work as a member of team, with people of different cultural, and religious backgrounds, different gender, and diverse political views, while maintaining impartiality and objectivity;
• Digital literacy and proficient use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint), internet.