Politcal Affairs Advisor - AMERICAN SYSTEMS - Alabama

Media Affairs in OSCE field activities provides two specialized services:

Political Affairs work typically involves analyzing and reporting on issues relevant to the OSCE mission mandate in the host country, especially in the fields of early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. It may also involve advising the Head of Mission and other mission staff, as well as representing OSCE policy positions to the authorities of the host country at all levels

About REACT and the OSCE:
In November 1999, the participating States (pS) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) endorsed Rapid Expert and Assistance Cooperation Teams (better known as REACT) as a tool to enable the OSCE to deploy civilian experts more rapidly to the field to undertake activities associated with conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation. The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) sponsors election monitoring missions in OSCE pS and Partner countries. The OSCE’s Partner States include: Japan, Republic of (South) Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, Afghanistan, and Australia (as Asian Partners for Cooperation), and Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia (as Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation).

Work Locations : Caucasus, Balkans , Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia