Description
IOM is seeking highly qualified members of the Albanian Diaspora (fellows/diaspora experts) with diverse backgrounds and expertise to support institutions in Albania with EU accession and approximation processes through technical expertise, capacity building, and international knowledge transfer.
The project "Leveraging the potential of Diaspora to advance EU accession and labour mobility in the Western Balkans" funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation aims to create conditions for Diaspora members to fully support the sustainable and economic development of four selected Western Balkan partners: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and North Macedonia.
The Albanian diaspora experts engaged by IOM Albania will work closely with the Department of Policy and EU Integration/National Unit for EU Approximation within the Prime Minister’s Office and where necessary with other Albanian institutions in the above priority sectors and domains to provide strategic guidance, develop tools and frameworks, deliver capacity-building activities, and support internationalization efforts.
The specific tasks of the legal experts consultants/fellows will include:
- Conducting a review and assessment on the EU priorities and EU Acquis and all relevant national legislation, to identify the gaps of national legislation with the EU Acquis.
- Advising the Line Ministries on the necessary steps to be taken to align the national legislation with the EU Acquis.
- Drafting the necessary legal framework (full legal package) for the acts that will be aligned with EU Acquis, based on the priorities of the National Plan for European Integration.
- Providing on the job training and capacity building to the Line Ministries staff on the EU Acquis and the process of legal alignment including the preparation of the tables of concordance between the proposed draft acts and the relevant EU Acquis.