Albania: Key expert 1: Team Leader (Lot7 short-term mission)

Reference: “Evaluation of Utilisation of Administrative Technical Funds"

Location: Tirana, Albania

Duration: 32 WD

The Bureau for Institutional Reform and Democracy – BiRD, is currently accepting applications for a Category I expert: Team Leader as part of a Lot7 short-term mission in Albania entitled “Evaluation of Utilisation of Administrative Technical Funds".

The main objectives of the evaluation are to provide to the EU Delegation to Albania and the relevant services of the European Union, with:

• An overall independent assessment added value and achievement supported by the ATA funds used to support the EUD activities in Albania.

• Key lessons and recommendations in order to improve current situation and advise on the best possible use of ATA funds in the future, aiming at an enhanced performance of Delegation activities.

Specific Objectives:

• Provide findings on relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of the ATA interventions; identify any issues that have hampered progress;

• Provide operational recommendations for actions to improve the implementation of ATA funds; provide recommendations vis-à-vis the future identification of ATA needs and best use of external experts in order to improve the performance of Delegation;

• Lessons learnt from possible successful interventions.

Key expert 1:Team Leader

Qualifications and skills:

• Minimum Master's Degree Academic level in relevant field.

• Excellent oral and writing skills in English.

General professional experience:

-Minimum 12 years post-degree relevant professional experience in Public Policy, External Aid and/or EU integration.

Specific professional experience:

-The above experience should also include a minimum of five years of experience inprogramme/sector monitoring and/or evaluation, policy design and implementation and a minimum of 3 years in team leadership, project management or equivalent.

The total duration of the mission will be 32 WD. Provisional start of the assignment: beginning of January 2017 with an expected duration of four months.

Location of the assignment: Tirana, Albania.

All experts must be independent and free from conflicts of interest in the responsibilities they take on.

Applications and updated CVs are accepted on a rolling basis and should be submitted before 21 November2016 to: jobs@birdmunich.de.

Please note that only excellent experts meeting most or all of the above criteria and having an excellent and verifiable track record will be considered.