Leadership
Support the advancement of the Strategic Objectives of the IEA:
- Ensure the development, promotion and implementation of the Executive Director’s Strategic Objectives, including enhanced engagement with key partners and other non-member economies and “horizontal” (multidisciplinary) work.
- Extend the position of the IEA as the leading player in energy analysis, energy policy dialogue and identification of evidence-based policies to meet global energy challenges.
- Ensure effective internal co-ordination with other parts of the OECD Secretariat on issues of common interest.
- Assist the Chair of the Standing Group on Long-Term Cooperation.
Actively participate in the overall management and administration of the IEA Secretariat:
- Contribute to maintaining high standards of personnel and financial management and to mobilising support and voluntary funding for the work of the IEA from a variety of sources.
- Lead, inspire and develop a highly professional multicultural and multidisciplinary team. Promote high performance and professional satisfaction through scrupulous recruitment, effective work methods and sound performance management, including professional assessments, as well as by maintaining good communications and a positive working atmosphere.
- Provide direct supervision to the Heads in the Office of Global Energy Relations and the Energy Data Center.
Representation and liaison
- Represent the Executive Director at high-level meetings and conferences involving senior policy-makers and representatives of business, industry, academia and NGOs.
- Build collaborative and collegial working relationships with people inside and outside the IEA.
- Act in place of the Executive Director as requirested.
Management and Coordination of the Office of Global Energy Relations
- Provide strategic direction and leadership for the Office of Global Energy Relations (GER) in line with the objectives and priorities of the Agency and its member countries, in particular, responding to the challenges arising from the fundamental shifts in global energy markets. In that function, he/she assists the Chair of the Standing Group for Global Energy Dialogue.
- Identify emerging challenges and develop and implement strategies through which the Office of GER can assist member and partner countries to respond to these challenges.
- Exercise critical oversight of the analytical and policy content of the GER’s reports and programme proposals ensuring that they make an effective contribution to global energy governance and that they are consistent with the Agency’s overall strategy and messages.
- Exercise oversight for the overall management and administration of GER as well as the development of its programme of work. Ensure the delivery of relevant rigorous and timely data and analysis. Assist to secure voluntary funding sufficient to support ongoing projects and to enable the IEA to respond to new challenges as appropriate.
- Ensure the impact of the Office’s work so that its policy recommendations, messages and analysis are reflected and used in global energy discussions and dialogue with member and partner countries, energy-related international organisations and fora, business as well as civil society.