Recruitment process for the position of Executive Secretary of the CIM

Related documents

  • Statute of the CIM (PDF)
  • Agreements of the 6th Regular Session of the Executive Committee of the CIM 2016-2019 (PDF)

The hiring process of the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) is governed by its Statute, specifically Chapter VII, articles 28 to 30. In this context and following the process outlined:

  1. On April 2nd 2019, the Employment Announcement LT-EO/24/19 was published on the OAS website until May 2, 2019, in compliance with the 30 days required by the Statute of the CIM (Article 30, paragraph a).
  2. The Sixth Regular Session of the Executive Committee of the CIM 2016-2019 was convened in order to conduct interviews with a list of candidates, pre-classified by the Executive Secretariat and approved by the Executive Committee of the CIM, according to their level of compliance with the specified requirements. in the job announcement (article 30, subparagraph b)
  3. Following the interviews, the profiles of the interviewed candidates were published on the CIM webpage for a period of 30 days (through June 14th 2019) in order to receive observations on the candidates by the Member States and civil society (Article 30, paragraph b) ).
  4. After this period, the Executive Committee of the CIM 2019-2022 will meet on June 26th 2019 in Medellin, Colombia to select, by majority, a short list of three candidates, to be sent to the Secretary General of the OAS, together with all the documentation presented and with the observations that it deems pertinent (Article 30, paragraph c)
  5. The Executive Secretary shall be appointed by the Secretary General of the Organization from the list selected by the Executive Committee of the CIM (article 29).

The six candidates interviewed by the Executive Committee of the CIM are (in alphabetical order):

  • Laura Albornoz Pollmann (Chile)
    Curriculum vitae in: English or Spanish
  • Julia Lorena Fries Monleón (Chile)
    Curriculum vitae in: English or Spanish
  • Teresa Incháustegui Romero (México)
    Curriculum vitae in: English or Spanish
  • Alejandra Mora Mora (Costa Rica)
    Curriculum vitae in: English or Spanish
  • Angela Margarita Rey Anaya (Colombia)
    Curriculum vitae in: English or Spanish
  • Miosotis Rivas Peña (República Dominicana)
    Curriculum vitae in: English or Spanish

By the established deadline, a total of 193 letters were received, listed in this document.