Decision 69/26

The Executive Committee decided:

1. To take note of documents UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/69/37 and UNEP/OzL.Pro/ExCom/69/37Add.1;
2. To approve the revised vacancy announcement for the post of third Chief Officer of the Multilateral Fund Secretariat with a closing date of 24 April 2013, attached as Annex XIV to the present report;
3. To note the Executive Director’s reply to the Chief Officer of 22 March 2013 regarding the two UNEP representatives on the selection panel;
4. To approve the establishment of a selection panel composed of: Ms. Fiona Walters (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Co-Chair, Mr. Atsushi Suginaka (Japan) and Mr. John Thompson (United States of America), representing non-Article 5 countries, and Mr. R. R. Rashmi (India), Ms. Margaret Aanyu (Uganda) and Mr. Luis Santos (Uruguay), representing Article 5 countries, and Mr. Achim Steiner, Co-Chair, or Ms. Amina Mohamed on Mr. Steiner’s behalf, and Mr. Marco Gonzalez, representing UNEP;
5. To note the Chief of UNEP’s Executive Office correspondence of 27 March and 12 April 2013 to the Chair of the Executive Committee on the selection process for the Chief Officer;
6. To request the members of the selection panel to work intersessionally on the matters within its purview, including the definition of the selection process, the dates for interviews in person and the assessment matrix for attributing scores to candidates; and
7. To request the selection panel to report to the 70^th meeting of the Executive Committee, through its Chair, on progress made in the process of selecting the Chief Officer.