Senior Policy Analyst

The Senior Policy Analyst will lead the Secretariat's work supporting the Participants to the Arrangement on officially supported export credits, providing strategic leadership, facilitating negotiations, and managing a team. The role involves policy analysis, stakeholder engagement, and representing the Division in international forums.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Secretariat support to the Participants to the Arrangement, ensuring effective delivery of their work programme and implementation of decisions.
• Direct preparation of policy, analytical and decision-making materials for meetings of the Participants.
• Facilitate and support negotiations among Participants on technical and policy matters, building consensus and advancing agreed outcomes.
• Oversee the Secretariat's internal and external communications activities, including briefing materials, speeches, stakeholder engagement and strategic messaging.
• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of analysts, consultants and support staff by setting objectives, allocating resources, providing guidance and coaching, and managing performance.
• Direct activities relating to the Technical Experts of the Participants ensuring effective preparation of meetings, high-quality documentation and follow-up of outcomes.
• Lead analytical and policy work on interest rate and premium disciplines for officially supported export credits.
• Lead work relating to aid and export credits, developing analytical assessments and policy recommendations.
• Ensure quality, consistency and relevance of analytical outputs, providing strategic guidance on complex technical and policy issues.
• Co-lead organisation of stakeholder consultations including the Export Credits Forum.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with member country representatives, export credit agencies, international organisations, private sector stakeholders and civil society organisations.
• Represent the Division in international meetings, conferences and stakeholder engagements.
• Provide strategic advice and briefing materials to senior management on policy developments, negotiations and emerging issues affecting official export credits.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in economics, finance, public policy, statistics, or another relevant discipline.
• At least eight years of progressively responsible experience in policy analysis, economic analysis or related fields acquired in a government administration, international organisation, financial institution, export credit agency, or research environment.
• At least five years of professional experience in the field of officially supported export credits.
• Strong knowledge of the OECD Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits and its associated Sector Understandings.
• Proven experience supporting, facilitating or leading international policy discussions and negotiations involving multiple stakeholders and competing interests.
• Demonstrated experience managing and developing teams, including setting strategic objectives, allocating resources, coaching staff and overseeing performance.
• Sound project management experience, including the delivery of complex analytical workstreams involving extensive quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Strong record of producing high-quality analytical and policy-oriented work, including drafting reports, briefing materials and decision-making documents for senior audiences.
• Experience presenting complex policy and technical issues to senior government officials, international delegates and other high-level stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, including experience working with large datasets and quantitative analysis.
• 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.

Skills

• Policy Analysis
• Economic Analysis
• Export Credits Expertise
• OECD Arrangement Knowledge
• International Negotiations
• Team Management
• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Quantitative Analysis
• Qualitative Analysis
• Report Writing
• Briefing Material Preparation
• Presentation to Senior Officials
• Stakeholder Engagement
• MS Excel
• Large-scale Dataset Analysis

Languages

English, French