Executive Assistant - Environment Directorate

Main Responsibilities

Executive Assistance and Office Management

• Provide high-level executive and administrative support to the Director and Director’s Office, ensuring smooth daily operations.
• Manage and optimise the Director’s calendar: appointments, internal/external meetings, work commitments, social functions, and international engagements.
• Draft, proofread, format and finalise routine correspondence, official letters, memos and documents; process official documents via eCouncil/ONE and manage translations when required.
• Maintain an accessible electronic and physical filing system and ensure proper management of confidential material.
• Welcome and assist visitors, including high level officials, ensuring discretion and protocol are respected.
• Foster and maintain strong working relations with counterparts across the Organisation (e.g., SG/DSG offices), national delegations, governments, the private sector and international organisations.

Communication and Information Flow

• Screen, prioritise and manage emails for the Director: draft responses, redirect tasks, handle items not requiring the Director’s personal attention, and flag urgent issues.
• Prioritise, track and follow up on incoming requests, projects and correspondence—ensuring deadlines are met, including those from the Office of the Secretary General.
• Coordinate daily workflow in the Director’s Office and ensure effective information flow with internal divisions, delegations, and external partners.
• In the absence of the Director or Deputy Directors, assess and escalate issues requiring immediate attention and liaise with Advisors accordingly.
• Ensure that information is clearly and timely relayed to relevant staff and stakeholders.

• Maintain professional, courteous communication on behalf of the Director’s Office with internal and external interlocutors.

Missions and Events Coordination

• Organise and manage logistical and administrative aspects of meetings led by the Director’s Office: room bookings, catering, technical requirements, document formatting, invitations, and coordination with internal support units.
• Identify and assemble information for the Director prior to important meetings based on the information and programme.
• Organise missions for the Director and Director’s Office staff: flights, hotels, registrations, visas, Concur mission orders, expense claims and reimbursement follow-up.
• Prepare and assemble background documents, briefing files and relevant information for meetings and missions.
• Liaise with government officials, local authorities and co organisers to ensure protocol, security and logistical arrangements for meetings or missions abroad.

Other

• Work collaboratively and constructively with ENV assistants and across the organisation.
• Contribute to directorate wide initiatives to improve team spirit and well-being.
• Carry out other related tasks as required.

Qualifications

Ideal Candidate Profile

Academic Background

• Very good secondary level education and relevant post-secondary education or experience, preferably within an international organisation.

Professional Background

• Proven experience as a personal assistant to a high-level national or international civil servant, and experience in the environment domain would be an advantage.
• Knowldege of the administrative rules, procedures and systems of the Organisation would be an advantage, or the ability to learn and assimilate them quickly.

Tools

• Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, in particular Word and Outlook.  Experience using PowerPoint would be an advantage.
• Experience with the software packages used in the Organisation (eCouncil, Concur, Conference Room Reservations, SRP, ONE Author, SRM, etc.).
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new tools.

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 1); Enable People (Level 1); Ethics and Integrity (Level 1); Collaboration and Horizontality (Level 2); Achieve Results (Level 1); Innovate and Embrace Change (Level 1).
• To learn more about the definitions for each competency for levels 1-3, please refer to OECD Core Competencies.

Languages

• Fluency in one of the two OECD official languages (English and French) and knowledge of the other, with a commitment to reach a good working level.

Additional Information

Closing Date

• This vacancy should be filled as soon as possible, and applications should reach us no later than 15 March at 23h59 (Paris time).

Contract Duration

• Open-ended appointment, with no foreseen end date.

Please note that our Rules and Regulations stipulate that the mandatory retirement age is 67.

What the OECD offers

• Monthly salary starts at 4 502.33 EUR, plus allowances based on eligibility, exempt of French income tax.
• Click here to consult the Staff Regulations applicable to officials of the OECD. Please note that from 1 July 2025, all Official appointments will be made under the OECD’s new contractual modalities.
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• Please note that the appointment may be made at one grade lower in the specified job family, based on the qualifications and professional experience of the selected applicant.
• This vacancy may be used to create a pool of candidates for comparable positions, both for open-ended and fixed-term functions. 

Selection Process

For retained candidates, the selection process may include a video-recorded interview, job-based assessment and panel interviews.

The OECD is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes the applications of all qualified candidates [who are nationals of OECD member countries]*, irrespective of their racial or ethnic origin, opinions or beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, health or disabilities.

The OECD promotes an optimal use of resources in order to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. Staff members are encouraged to actively contribute to this goal.