Apply for Specialist, Occupational Safety and Health, Geneva, Switzerland Job Vacancy | Position

Grade: P4

Vacancy no.: RBC/P/GOVERNANCE/2024/22 Publication date: 13 December 2024 Application deadline (midnight  Geneva time): 13 January 2025

Job ID: 12597 Department: GOVERNANCE Organization Unit: OSHE Location: Geneva Contract kind: Fixed Term

The following are eligible to apply:

• ILO Internal candidates in accordance with paragraphs 31 and 32 of Annex I of the ILO Staff Regulations.

• External candidates.

Applications from candidates who’ve already separated from ILO service upon retirement or early retirement, won’t be thought of.

The ILO values variety amongst its workers and welcomes functions from certified feminine candidates. We additionally encourage candidates with disabilities. If you might be unable to finish our on-line application kind as a result of a incapacity, please ship an e-mail to ilojobs@ilo.org.

The ILO welcomes candidates with expertise in working inside ILO constituents (governments, employers’ and enterprise membership organizations, and employees’ organizations).

Applicants from non- or under-represented member States, or from these member States which staffing forecasts point out will change into non- or under-represented within the close to future can be significantly welcome. A listing of those nations will be discovered right here: ILO Jobs: Non- and under-represented Member States

In addition to the interviews and assessments that any candidate could also be required to take, profitable completion of the ILO Assessment Centre is required for all exterior candidates and any inner candidate making use of to the next class.

Notwithstanding the overall concerns set out within the ILO Staff Regulations, this emptiness announcement is the one authoritative doc pertaining to the {qualifications} required for this place. The minimal required {qualifications} had been decided in view of the particular duties and obligations of this place.

The particular language necessities for this place are detailed hereunder. However, exterior candidates making use of for the skilled class vacancies and whose mom tongue shouldn’t be one of many working languages of the Office (English, French and Spanish), shall be required to own a totally passable working data of no less than one of many ILO working languages. If appointed, they are going to be anticipated to amass a data of a second working language of the Office throughout their preliminary years of service.

Introduction

The place is positioned within the Occupational Safety and Health and Working Environment Branch (OSHE) of the Governance and Tripartism Department (GOVERNANCE). GOVERNANCE leads international efforts to advance good governance and the belief of rights on this planet of labor by way of efficient social dialogue, inclusive labour market establishments and built-in coverage approaches. It helps constituents in advancing sound social dialogue and labour relations; growing and implementing labour regulation reforms and fostering entry to labour justice; strengthening labour administration and labour inspection techniques; selling a protected and wholesome working atmosphere and respect and realization of basic rules and rights at work; in addition to in bettering working situations, respect of labour rights and boosting competitiveness in provide chains.

The OSHE Branch is accountable for main work associated to occupational security and well being (OSH), particularly for the promotion, respect, and realization of the basic proper to a protected and wholesome working atmosphere. The Branch facilitates the event of worldwide requirements, tips, and tripartite dialogues, promotes international and nationwide consciousness of the scale and penalties of work-related accidents and illnesses, and helps international, regional, and nationwide efforts to enhance OSH frameworks and foster a preventative security and well being tradition. The Branch offers coverage and technical recommendation to ILO constituents in all features of security and well being at work.

The essential function of the place is to develop and contribute to research, studies, briefs, technical instruments, capability constructing supplies, and present direct help to technical departments at ILO headquarters, discipline places of work and constituents on the implementation of the basic OSH conventions, significantly the event and enchancment of the varied components of nationwide OSH frameworks (OSH insurance policies, programmes, and the totally different components of OSH techniques). The place will even be accountable for protecting the Branch knowledgeable of worldwide, regional, and nationwide coverage traits, scientific and technical developments on related and urgent OSH points. The place will even contribute to the design and implementation of worldwide advocacy and consciousness elevating initiatives, coordinating with different ILO technical departments and discipline places of work.

The incumbent works underneath direct supervision of the crew lead on coverage and techniques.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. As main specialist within the space(s) of OSH techniques, is accountable for substantial segments of the work programme. Identify priorities and actions to assist constituents in growing and implementing a complete nationwide OSH framework, as outlined within the basic OSH Conventions, mainstream OSH into broader public insurance policies, develop methods, in addition to ship and coordinate high-quality technical assist at international, regional, subregional and nationwide ranges to advance the Decent Work Agenda and social justice, making an allowance for the mixing of cross-cutting coverage drivers, together with worldwide labour requirements, social dialogue, gender equality and non-discrimination, and a simply transition in direction of environmentally sustainable economies and societies. Lead work streams/groups concerned on this work and make sure the efficient administration of workers and consultants in accordance with ILO requirements, the results-based administration framework and by way of well timed and efficient use of the Performance Management Framework (PMF) and different suggestions mechanisms, as relevant. 2. Review and facilitate the strengthening and efficient implementation of inclusive institutional, authorized and coverage frameworks. Provide knowledgeable coverage and technical recommendation within the space of occupational security and well being at work to ILO constituents and different involved stakeholders with a view to selling the formulation of inclusive and gender-responsive insurance policies and programmes, and their impactful implementation and monitoring to make sure equitable outcomes. Promote related worldwide labour requirements. 3. Support ILO constituents in figuring out their wants and present sufficient technical assist, together with by way of comparative coverage analyses. Facilitate the efficient participation and advocacy function of employers’ and employees’ organizations in coverage design, implementation and analysis of respectable work programmes and tasks. 4. Provide technical inputs to the design and implementation of Decent Work Country Programmes (DWCPs) in addition to UN and different growth cooperation frameworks. Participate in multidisciplinary initiatives and actions with a view to making sure an built-in strategy for the supply of the Decent Work Agenda. 5. Initiate, design, conduct/fee and/or coordinate progressive and gender-mainstreamed analysis and evaluation that meets the evolving wants of constituents and different key stakeholders within the OSH space and results in the formulation of coverage recommendation, technical suggestions, tips, and the event of latest and enhancement of present methodologies associated to the world of security and well being at work. 6. Develop and lead/coordinate the event of OSH insurance policies, programmes, and different initiatives and a spread of authentic and evidence-based technical and coverage data merchandise and instruments responding to constituents’ wants and priorities and advancing the Decent Work Agenda. Promote and facilitate their dissemination on the international, regional and nation ranges and present recommendation and technical assist to constituents and different stakeholders on successfully utilizing such instruments. Contribute to Office-wide efforts to analyse, doc and disseminate classes discovered and data on progressive practices. 7. Provide technical inputs to, oversee the drafting of/draft, peer evaluation and edit studies, publications and different workplace paperwork, together with for the Governing Body, International Labour Conference and regional, sectoral and knowledgeable conferences.

optionally available part (provided that wanted)

8. Support the strengthening of ILO constituents’ capability to design and implement insurance policies and methods, monitor their influence and determine actions for continuous enchancment within the space of occupational security and well being at work. Oversee the design of instruments and studying supplies, pilot new tips, lead and/or coordinate workshops, conferences and different occasions, utilizing progressive strategies, digital platforms and communication instruments. Develop and run/implement international and/or regional capability growth programmes, data sharing and coaching occasions together with in collaboration with the International Training Centre in Turin (ITC-ILO) and/or with different related companions as relevant 9. Identify alternatives for technical and strategic partnerships within the promotion and realization of the basic proper to protected and wholesome working environments and associated areas and develop new/reinforce present partnerships and collaborative relationships with conventional and non-traditional companions/entities of the UN system and different worldwide organizations; regional and nationwide actors; personal establishments; multilateral growth banks and worldwide monetary establishments; analysis establishments and academia and different key stakeholders with a view to advancing and advocating ILO’s strategic aims and requirements, guaranteeing coherent, coordinated and complete multilateral responses, useful resource mobilization and influencing coverage and financing selections to assist the implementation of the ILO international OSH technique 10. Organize, facilitate and make technical contributions at seminars, conferences and different occasions. Represent and have interaction the ILO as a key participant in conferences, conferences and boards on the worldwide, regional, subregional and nationwide ranges involved with methods, insurance policies or programmes within the discipline of security and well being at work. 11. Conceptualize, formulate, focus on and submit growth cooperation undertaking proposals, making an allowance for regional, subregional and nationwide priorities on the promotion and realization of the basic proper to protected and wholesome working atmosphere and the necessity to place these inside related cooperation frameworks. Provide technical backstopping for growth cooperation tasks and promote and facilitate coherence and data sharing amongst tasks. 12. Play a key function in useful resource mobilization efforts to safe funding for new tasks and actions within the discipline of occupational security and well being. Ensure efficient coordination with involved headquarters departments and discipline places of work. 13. Perform different related duties as assigned.

optionally available part 2 (provided that wanted)

Required {qualifications}

 Education

Advanced stage college diploma (Master’s or equal) in occupational security and well being, regulation, drugs, social sciences, engineering, or different related discipline A primary-level college diploma (Bachelor’s or equal) in one of many afore-mentioned fields or different related discipline with an extra two years of related expertise, along with the expertise said beneath, shall be accepted in lieu of a complicated college diploma.

Experience

At least seven years of expertise within the space of security and well being at work, together with on the worldwide stage.

Languages

Excellent command of 1 working language (English, French, Spanish of the Organization. Working data of a second working language is a bonus.

In addition to the ILO core competencies, the next are required: Knowledge and technical/behavioural competencies

Excellent data and understanding of theories, traits and approaches within the space(s) of security and well being at work, and significantly in relation to formulation and implementation of nationwide OSH insurance policies and programmes and the institution or strengthening of the weather of nationwide OSHG techniques with the flexibility to plan, coordinate and information the event and implementation of latest ideas insurance policies, strategies and procedures in response to evolving technical wants.

Good data of the substantive nature of Organization’s work programmes and actions and potential to deal with broader points exterior the sector of specialization.

Ability to steer and handle particular person and group assignments and to oversee these enterprise the work.

Ability to share data and present technical recommendation and steering on newest coverage developments within the technical space.

Excellent analysis and analytical expertise.

Excellent drafting expertise.

Excellent communication expertise, wonderful presentation expertise, negotiation, promotion and advocacy expertise. Ability to adapt communication model to various audiences.

Ability to adapt rapidly to new software program and techniques.

Ability to community and construct and keep efficient and collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders and to create and promote synergies throughout the Organization and with exterior stakeholders.

Ability to characterize the Organization and current/promote the technical space of labor and the ILO’s place on it to companions with a view to gaining their assist to advance the specified plan of action.

Ability to mobilize assets.

Ability to work successfully in a multicultural atmosphere and to reveal gender-responsive, non-discriminatory and inclusive behaviour and attitudes.

Conditions of employment

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• Any appointment/extension of appointment is topic to ILO Staff Regulations and different related inner guidelines. Any supply of employment with the ILO is conditional upon certification by the ILO Medical Adviser that the individual involved is medically match to carry out the particular inherent necessities of the place supplied. In order to substantiate a proposal from the ILO the profitable candidate shall be required to endure a medical examination.
• The first contract shall be issued for a twenty-four month interval.
• A profitable exterior candidate shall be on probation for the primary two years of project.
• Any extension of contract past the probation interval is topic to passable conduct and efficiency.

For extra data on situations of employment, please go to the ILO Jobs International Recruitment web page.

Important Information

Any officers of the General Service class eager about making use of to this place are hereby knowledgeable that, if chosen, they are going to be supplied the wage and allowances relevant to the grade of the place utilized for, which can lead to substantial modifications of their take-home remuneration. In accordance with Article 3.4 of the Staff Regulations, the wage of an official, upon promotion, shall in no case be better than the utmost wage of the grade to which she or he was promoted. For any questions or clarifications, please contact your HR associate at hrpartner@ilo.org

Recruitment course of

Please observe that every one candidates should full an on-line application kind. To apply, please go to the ILO Jobs web site. The system offers directions for on-line application procedures.

Evaluation (which can embody one or a number of written assessments and a pre-interview competency-based evaluation centre) and the interviews will tentatively happen through the 3 to 4 months following the application deadline. Candidates are requested to make sure their availability ought to they be quick listed for additional consideration.

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