Head of Secretariat

by | Dec 15, 2025 | Uncategorized

Oceania Customs Organisation Secretariat (“OCO”), invites applications from highly experienced and visionary leaders for the position of Head of Secretariat to lead and strengthen the regional customs cooperation agenda across 24 Pacific Island member administrations.

 

All applications will be treated with strict confidence and should be received by Friday, 2 January 2026, quoting “Head of Secretariat – Oceania Customs Organisation Secretariat”

 

For submission and additional inquiries, please refer to the advertisement details here.

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Priority 1

Customs Leadership

Overall Objective: Enhance the Leadership capability to enable Customs’ modernisation reforms

Develop and strengthen Members’ leadership capabilities at executive management and supervisory levels

* Strengthen the implementation of the current OCO Professional Standards Framework (OPSF).
* Facilitate executive and management programmes with a continued focus on women in leadership
* Develop mentoring and internship programmes and modules
* Develop front line supervision training
* Develop a train the trainer program
* Provide ethics and governance training

Strengthen organisational development for the future

* Conduct annual training needs analysis for individual Members
* Facilitate and promote the use of relevant WCO and OCO E-learning modules
* Develop a Gender Equality Plan for Customs
* Policy and Legislative skill development
* Develop a pathway to be a recognised accredited Customs training provider
* Secretariat and Member engagement at regional and international forums.
* Build and maintain a Customs Expert database

Strengthen succession planning

  • * Development of executive and leadership courses for Member administrations
  • * Conduct a regional workshop on Corporate Governance and Succession Planning for Member administrations