The OSCE requires consultants to provide advisory services or expert assistance, special skills or knowledge that core staff/mission members of the OSCE are not able to provide and for which there is no continuing need.

Consultants are particularly sought in the following fields:

• Administration and support 
• Civilian police 
• Democratization 
• Economic and environmental affairs 
• Education 
• Elections 
• Gender
• Human rights 
• Media affairs 
• Military affairs (especially experience in arms control)
• Political affairs 
• Rule of law
• Combating trafficking in human beings
• Border management
• Anti-terrorism
• Project management