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Programme Manager

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INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 190 Member Countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities, and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime. INTERPOL is now looking for one qualified candidate as Programme Manager within the Project – Experts Group on Security in Major Sporting Events.
The Experts Group on Security in Major Sporting Events Project was established by INTERPOL and funded by Qatar in November 2012. It is a 10 year project culminating in the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The mission of the Experts Group on Security in Major Sporting Events Project is to create a centre of excellence and best practice in both physical and cyber protective security for world sporting events and will develop within INTERPOL a menu of tried and tested interventions which will achieve international recognition and endorsement. The post holder will be responsible for:
  1. Managing the design of the Interpol ‘Best Practice’ database. This will involve providing leadership in identifying business needs and interpreting those needs, ensuring the database design meets the requirements made.
  2. Ensuring that that the learning accrued from the planning and execution of Qatar 2022 World Cup is contemporaneously captured and recorded;
  3. Ensuring that all available learning from major world sporting events over the next 10 years is also captured and managed into best practice data base, the foundation of the centre of excellence at INTERPOL. This will involve extensive interaction with the programme team in Qatar, agencies planning and executing world sporting events over the next 10 years, internal and external stakeholders, the INTERPOL cyber capability in Singapore and the private sector.
  4. Achieving the programme’s objectives on a strict timeline, directing the required reporting, budget execution and shaping a culture which leads to a ‘virtual team’ with the programme team in Qatar, thereby ensuring transparency, coordination and cooperation;
  5. Directing the events designed to capture advice from the “worldwide law enforcement advisory group” which will be convened at INTERPOL for yearly conferences;
  6. Ensuring the coordination of training needs analysis in Qatar;
  7. Designing and implementing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) across the INTERPOL span of work under this project;
  8. Overseeing the development of a comprehensive communications strategy.
Primary duties
  1. Exercising diplomacy whilst effectively negotiating each contributing country’s input into the Interpol Best Practice Database;
  2. Lead the development of a centre of excellence in physical and cyber protective security for world sporting events at INTERPOL;
  3. Expand INTERPOL’s interventions in support of world sporting events ensuring they achieve a high standard of international recognition and endorsement;
  4. Oversee a comprehensive communications strategy using both online and off-line channels and multimedia tools. The key audiences will be law enforcement community, governments, partner organizations, the media and the general public;
  5. Design Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)  integrated across platforms, activities and products;
  6. Produce an annual business plan with KPIs;
  7. Ensure good governance in the programme’s execution, timeliness and financial reporting;
  8. Act as Director for yearly conferences of the “Worldwide Law Enforcement Advisory Group” ensuring best practices and advice are captured and output is maximised;
  9. Together with the programme manager in Qatar, ensure the INTERPOL and Qatari teams act as one virtual team promoting positive interaction, transparency, coordination and cooperation;
  10. Where appropriate, attend world sporting events to ensure INTERPOL is engaged with current relevant stakeholders and utilise these contacts to ensure best practice is communicated and captured;
  11. Manage the four-person team in charge of the “Experts Group on Security in Major Sporting Events” project.
Perform any other duties as required by the supervisor.
Requirements
All candidates will be assessed on the under mentioned requirements.
Training/Education required
  • Five years’ University degree.
Languages
  • Fluency in English.
Experience required
  • Minimum of 8 years’ experience in the area in question and, where necessary, proven experience in management.
Specific skills required
  • Sound networking and strong communication skills, in both written and oral form - public speaking and delivery of presentations;
  • Experience in working with computers, including knowledge of oral presentation software, business intelligence and word processing software;
  • Programme and project management skills – including evidence of having recently effectively delivered major projects/ programmes as a senior responsible officer / programme manager;
  • The following management skills:
  • Leadership;
  • Managing performance;
  • Large scale budget management & financial knowledge;
  • Ability to develop creative, diverse & high performing teams;
  • An ability to remain calm, focused and give direction under pressure;
  • Proven understanding and senior management experience of protective security/cyber security disciplines and delivery in this area.
  • Working knowledge of INTERPOL’s departments’ workings systems and projects.
Special aptitudes required
  • Ability to build mutually respectful, high performing teams;
  • Collegiate/participative management style;
  • Personal and professional maturity;
  • Ability to work persistently and under pressure;
  • Excellent diplomacy and negotiation skills;
  • Good social skills specifically in a multi-cultural environment;
  • Sense of initiative and creativity;
  • Experience in translating business need into IT requirements;
  • Ability to develop and maintain professional networks;
  • Ability to manage debriefing;
  • Ability to synthesise;
  • Good listening skills;
  • Goal-oriented.
  • Proficiency in a second official working language of the organisation (Arabic, French or Spanish) would be an additional asset.
In addition to the requirements, the following Assets and Special Aptitudes would be beneficial.
Working Conditions
  • Remuneration for appointment on contract: The starting salary for grade 3 is EUR 4 770€ per month for a step 1.
  • The successful candidate may be offered appointment on a higher step depending upon professional background and experience. For more information regarding conditions of service see Employment conditions for contracted officials available on the website (www.interpol.int).
  • This post requires occasional travel on missions, sometimes of a long duration and at short notice.
  • The incumbent will also be required to work occasional overtime based upon workload.
* The Organization plans to establish a Global Complex in Singapore at fall 2014.  Although no decisions have been made at this time as to which posts will be transferred to Singapore, acceptance of the post implies acceptance of a transfer to Singapore.
In compliance with INTERPOL’s Confidentiality regime the successful candidate will have to undergo a security screening according to the clearance level attached to the function.
INTERPOL recruits throughout the world in order to attract the best and most varied candidates. Nationals of all Member states are encouraged to apply.
INTERPOL retains the right not to make any appointment to this vacancy, to make an appointment at a lower or upper grade or to make an appointment with a modified job description or for a shorter or longer duration than indicated above.
INTERPOL would like to inform candidates that their application may be considered for other similar positions.

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