Senior Information Officer; P

The OPCW’s mission is to implement the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention to achieve our vision of a world free of chemical weapons in which chemistry is used for peace, progress, and prosperity, and to contribute to international security and stability, general and complete disarmament, and global economic development.

The OPCW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons.

• Contract Type
  Fixed-term Professional
• Grade
  P4
• Total Estimated monthly remuneration depending on post adjustment and family status: USD
  10,094
• Closing Date
  15/01/2026

The duty station for this post is The Hague, with the requirement to deploy in support of Office of Special Missions (OSM) activities, including the current OPCW Mission in Syria (OMS) and future OSM missions. OSM conducts sensitive, technically complex, and politically significant missions requiring rigorous investigative methodology, impartial analytical assessments, and high standards of verification and compliance evaluation under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

The Senior Information Officer serves as OSM’s lead expert in information management and integration, ensuring that the OSM’s information is processed, protected and made available to end-users in timely manner and in line with the OPCW procedures and quality standards.

The Senior Information Officer provides expert-level, mission-critical support to the OSM by coordinating, integrating, and managing information essential to the planning, execution, and analysis of OPCW special missions. The incumbent ensures that all information relevant to the work of the OSM is captured, structured, assessed, and disseminated securely and effectively, in accordance with OPCW confidentiality regimes and operational requirements. The post requires extensive experience in CWC implementation, strong understanding of chemical weapons and chemical weapons-related issues, and in-depth familiarity with the operational methodologies of OPCW’s special missions.

Under the direct supervision of the Director, Office of Special Missions, the incumbent performs the following duties:

1. Mission Information Coordination

• Lead the coordination of information flows supporting OSM mandates, ensuring that operational, investigative, technical, and contextual information is collected, organised, and made accessible to authorised personnel;
• Develop and maintain information-management frameworks that support the full mission cycle—planning, deployment, execution, and reporting—for OSM;
• Ensure timely provision of mission information packages, operational updates, briefings, and cross-mission summaries.

2. Information Governance and Security

• Oversee the secure handling, classification, storage, and dissemination of sensitive mission information within OSM in full compliance with OPCW confidentiality rules and applicable security policies;
• Coordinates information-security controls, including access management, audit readiness, and coordination with Office of Confidentiality and Security and Information Services Branch.

3. Information Integration and Analytical Support

• Integrate multiple sources of information—field reports, technical data, interviews, OSINT, partner inputs, mission records—into coherent structures that support investigative and analytical activities;
• Ensure structured mission repositories and databases ensuring traceability, consistency, and reliability of all mission-related material;
• Produce situation summaries, cross-cutting analysis-support materials, and information products contributing to mission assessments and reporting.

4. Quality Assurance

• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of mission information through established quality assurance processes;
• Support source evaluation, data verification, and internal cross-checking consistent with OSM methodologies;
• Promote adherence to information-management standards and best practices.

5. Institutional Knowledge and Lessons Learned

• Develop and maintain knowledge-management tools to capture methodologies, lessons learned, and mission-specific…