Assistant Examiner

Contract

This is a G-5 contract. This kind of contract is known as General Service and related categories. It is normally only for nationals. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be more than 7,218 USD.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING APPLICATION DEADLINE: please note that the deadline for applications is indicated in local time as per the time zone of the applicant’s location.

This post is a limited-term fixed-term post.

1. Organizational Context

1. Organizational Setting

The post is located in the Operations Service of The Hague Registry, Brands and Designs Sector. The Operations Service processes international design applications and other transactions related to the administration of the various Acts of the Hague Agreement.

2. Purpose Statement

The incumbent examines international design applications, processes changes or decisions regarding international registrations, and provides customer service to users of the Hague System.

3. Reporting Lines

The incumbent works under the supervision of the Coordinator of the Operations Service.

2. Duties and Responsibilities

The incumbent will perform the following principal duties:

a. Verify the data concerning applications entered into the computer system.

b. Provide an examination of standard international design applications and a preliminary examination of complex cases by assessing their conformity with the applicable legal texts (Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs).

c. Prepare drafts of irregularity letters and conduct follow-up where required on applicant responses.

d. Conduct preliminary examination of correction requests.

e. Verify fees and follow-up with the financial services on payments.

f. Provide first-level customer support on examination matters and supply information of a practical nature to users and potential users relating to the procedure for international registration, the status of applications being examined or already recorded in the International Register, the payment of fees or any other related questions.

g. Perform other related duties as required.

3. Requirements

Education (Essential)

Completed secondary education.

Experience (Essential)

At least five years of work experience including experience in a customer service environment.

Experience in formalities processing of patent/trademark/industrial design applications.

Language (Essential)

Excellent written and spoken knowledge of English.

Language (Desirable)

Knowledge of other UN official languages, or of languages of major user countries of the Hague System.

Job Related Competencies (Essential)

Excellent customer service orientation with the ability to deliver high-quality customer services.

Good IT skills for document processing, data management, and data search.

Ability to work within the rules, regulations and procedures governing the area of work.

Meticulous attention to detail and ability to spot irregularities.

Good time management and work organization skills.

Ability to work on own initiative and with a marked sense of team work and shared responsibility.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to maintain effective partnerships and working relations in a multicultural environment with respect for diversity.

4. Organizational Competencies

1. Communicating effectively.
2. Showing team spirit.
3. Demonstrating integrity.
4. Valuing diversity.
5. Producing results.
6. Showing service orientation.
7. Seeing the big picture.
8. Seeking change and innovation.
9. Developing yourself and others.

5. Information

Mobility: WIPO staff members are international civil servants subject to the authority of the Director General and may be assigned to any activities of the Organization. Accordingly, the selected candidate may be required to move from time to time to new functions.

Annual salary (Net of tax): 75,234 CHF

Please refer to WIPO’s Staff Regulation and Rules for detailed information concerning salaries, benefits and allowances.

Additional Information

* Initial fixed-term appointment of two years, renewable subject to satisfactory performance and other applicable conditions. The selected candidate will be subject to an overall term of five years with no possibility of renewal beyond that term. This is not applicable to WIPO staff members on fixed-term, continuing or permanent appointments, who were recruited following a competition under Staff Regulation 4.10 (“Appointment Boards”).

Dependency allowances

7,939 CHF per year for dependent spouse; 6,398 CHF per year for each dependent child.

Language allowance

Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish: 4,788 CHF per year for two of these languages, and 3,192 CHF per year for one of them. The allowance is not payable for the mother tongue or the main working language of the staff member. The grant of this allowance is subject to examination.

General Service posts are generally subject to local recruitment. Staff in the General Service category is recruited in the host country or within reasonable commuting distance of the Headquarters.

This vacancy announcement may be used to fill other posts at the same grade with similar functions in accordance with Staff Rule 4.9.5.

Applications from qualified women as well as from qualified nationals of unrepresented Member States of WIPO and underrepresented geographical regions are encouraged. Please click on the following links for the list of unrepresented Member States and the list of underrepresented regions and the WIPO Member States in these regions.

The Organization reserves the right to make an appointment at a grade lower than that advertised.

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By completing an application, candidates understand that any willful misrepresentation made on this web site, or on any other documents submitted to WIPO during the application, may result in disqualification from the recruitment process, or termination of employment with WIPO at a later date, if that employment resulted from such willful misrepresentations.

In the event that your candidature is shortlisted, you will be required to provide, in advance, a scanned copy of an identification and of the degree(s)/diploma(s)/certificate(s) required for this position. WIPO only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed through the link: http://www.whed.net/. Some professional certificates may not appear in the WHED and these will be reviewed individually.

Additional testing/interviewing may be used as a form of screening. Initial appointment is subject to satisfactory professional references.

Additional background checks may be required.