Team Leader - Financial/Economic expert:

• Expert category: Cat. I (>12 years of experience)
• Qualifications and skills required: An advanced university degree (MA/MSc) or Masters’  Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics, preferably with CPA/CPFA/CPFM or ACCA

• General professional experience: At least 10 years of professional experience in project management; Proven experience in costing of education policies / financial structuring;
• Specific professional experience: Proven experience ( at least two years) in working with/for countries agencies that have set up/have a national Education or TVET fund model will be considered as an asset; Proven knowledge on existing TVET funding models will be considered as an asset; Proven experience in new fund scheme policy drafting inclusive of fund collection, disbursements and recovery, etc. will be considered as an asset; Proven experience in financial feasibility studies related to education will be considered as an asset; Proven experience in resources mobilisation strategies will  be considered as an asset Strong experience in working with learning institutions;  Experience working in/supporting public institutions in an African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP) country is an advantage.

• Language skills: Excellent oral communication and report writing skills in English
• Minimum number of working days: 140 days

Education Expert:

• Expert category: Cat. II (>6 years of experience)
• Qualifications and skills required: An advanced university degree (MA/MSc) or Masters’ degree in education management , education science ,education planning, educational economics or other related programs
• General professional experience: At least 6 years of professional experience related to TVET policies implementation
• Specific professional experience: Proven experience in educational financing approaches will be considered as an asset; Proven experience in new fund scheme policy drafting inclusive of fund collection, disbursements and recovery, etc. will be considered as an asset; Proven experience in financial feasibility studies related to education will be considered as an asset; Proven experience in resources mobilization strategies and development of funding proposals with potential donors and development partners; Strong experience in working with higher learning institutions; Experience working in/supporting public institutions in an African, Caribbean and Pacific Countries (ACP) country is an advantage.
• Minimum number of working days: 140 days

The indicative start date is 14/10/2022 and the period of implementation of the contract will be 365 days from this date (indicative end date: 14/10/2023).

2.7 System Change and Life-long Learning

Torino Process Level 2: Review of policies for lifelong learning in Tunisia, Morocco, and Jordan

INCOM is looking for one One international cat I International and in-country expertise, organisation of site visits, production of policy review reports.

The aim of this assignment is to : to support ETF in implementing the reviews of LLL policies in selected countries. The overarching goal of the country policy reviews is twofold: to explain the monitoring results (Level 1) and provide guidance for timely policy actions in support of system change for lifelong learning in areas of importance to partner countries (see examples of these thematic areas in the matrix below and for further details please consult the attached working paper Torino Process Reviews of policies for LLL: Scope and key thematic areas, Samples of guiding questions , Selected good EU practices).

The Expert profile should cover:

• At least 15 years of professional experience on education and training with hands on experience.
• Excellent knowledge of LLL policies, systemic reforms, and their implementation proven by academic background and/or hands-on experience with the analysis of such policies and reforms in view of suggesting improvements to policy design and implementation.
• Specific knowledge on one or more of the lifelong learning thematic areas (see table1)
• Very good knowledge of EU member states education and training systems, as well as their LLL frameworks and practices.
• Very good experience in carrying out these kinds of assignments, coordinating with national stakeholders and experts and drafting similar analysis and publications.
• English C2

Assest: Knowledge of the education and training systems in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries in general and in Morocco, Tunisia or Jordan

The implementing period is a total of 20 man days from Sept  2022 to March 2023

- LOT 4 Human development and safety net EuropeAid/138778/DH/SER/multi

Vocational Education and Training sector analysis and formulation of EU support to the sector in Mozambique

INCOM is looking for the team of experts for:

• Team Leader:
• General description of the position: VET and employment specialist
• Expert category: Cat. I (>12 years of experience)

Qualifications and skills required: At least Master's degree in the field of education,

employment or social sciences, or equivalent professional experience. Excellent oral and writing communication skills, adaptability and social awareness. Computer literacy and proficiency, especially with Word, Excel and Outlook.

• General professional experience: At least 6 years of experience in the skills development and employment sector.
• Specific professional experience: At least 3 years of experience in the VET and employment sector in Mozambique. Good knowledge of the Mozambique VET system.
• Experience in VET and employment policy, sectors analysis, financing, planning and/or programme development.

• Language skills: Fluency in both written and spoken Portuguese and English
• Minimum number of working days: 45 days

Local Expert:

• General description of the position: VET and employment specialist
• Expert category: Cat. II (>6 years of experience)
• Qualifications and skills required: At least Master's degree in the field of education, employment or social sciences, or equivalent professional experience. Excellent oral and writing communication skills, adaptability and social awareness. Computer literacy and proficiency, especially with Word, Excel and Outlook.

• General professional experience: At least 6 years of experience in the skills development and employment sector.

• Specific professional experience: At least 3 years of experience in the VET and employment sector in Mozambique. Good knowledge of the Mozambique VET system.
• Experience in VET and employment policy, sectors analysis, financing, planning and/or programme development.

• Language skills: Fluency in both written and spoken Portuguese and English
• Minimum number of working days: 45 days

The indicative start date is 05/09/2022 and the period of implementation of the contract will be 45 days from this date (indicative end date: 20/10/2022).

INCOM is looking for one One international expert, Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment specialist, to support with the research design  of a Pilot on impact assessment of Active Labour Market Policies in the Republic of Moldova. The aim of this assignment is to support the LMO in the preparation of methodology for impact assessment of one selected ALMP measure/service^[1], which would allow the LMO to implement a pilot exercise, respecting staff and financial possibilities of the observatory. It is assumed that the LMO would use this pilot to integrate impact assessment as a regular part of their activities to support the policy process by systematically accumulating evidence about the effects of ALMPs. The main objectives of this activity are:

• To prepare a methodology in cooperation with the LMO for the implementation of (pilot) impact assessment of a selected ALMP measure/service.
• To build capacities of the LMO in designing, implementation and analysis for impact assessment

The Expert profile should cover:

• Education at least up to Masters Degree level or equivalent
• at least 10 years of relevant professional experience of which at least 7 years related to the thematic area in the request for services.
• Very good knowledge and between 5 and 10 years and experience in monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment, including hands-on experience in design, implementation and analysis of impact assessment assignments.
• Demonstrated experience – through reports and/or projects – in conducting econometric analysis (as part of impact evaluations), with a focus on experimental or quasi-experimental approaches.
• Proven work experience and knowledge of public policies, in particular labour market policies, at European/international level (proven by reports and projects)
• Very good presentation and facilitation skills proved by the list of workshops and training in which the expert acted as a speaker, facilitator or trainer.
• Very good drafting skills proved by the list of reports/publications related to the topic of the assignment.
• Good organisational skills
• Excellent knowledge of English (at C1 level)

The implementing period is a total of 20 man days from Sept  2022 to December 2022

INCOM is looking for the team of experts for:  Évaluation des interventions dans le secteur de la Santé (SANTE III & RELSUDE – Fonds Bêkou) Contrat Cadre SIEA 2018

The Experts profiles should cover:

Les exigences minimales couvertes par l'ensemble de l'équipe d'experts sont détaillées ci-dessous. Profil général de l'équipe :

- Spécialisée en santé publique, comprenant expertise locale et internationale ;

- Compétences de communication et expérience dans la facilitation d’ateliers ;

- Capacités à écrire des rapports clairs ;

- L'Union européenne mène une politique d'égalité des chances. L'équilibre entre les sexes dans l'équipe proposée, à tous les niveaux, est fortement recommandé.

Expérience professionnelle générale de l'équipe :

- au moins 30 années accumulées d’expérience dans le secteur de la santé (notamment dans le renforcement des services de santé maternelle et infantile et des soins communautaires) dans despays africains;

- au moins 10 années accumulées d’expérience professionnelle dans le domaine de l’évaluation ;

- au moins 10 années accumulées d’expérience dans formulation ou gestion de de programmes dans le domaine de la santé ;

- au moins 10 années accumulées d’expérience professionnelle dans des États fragiles ;

- au moins 10 années accumulées d’expérience professionnelle dans le domaine du financement de la santé.

Expérience professionnelle spécifique de l'équipe :

- Le/la team leader doit avoir réalisé avec succès au moins 3 évaluations d’interventions en tant que chef d’équipe dans les 5 dernières années (sera considéré comme un atout une expérience dans la supervision d’évaluations complexes multi-projets/multi-disciplinaires)

- Au moins un des membres de l’équipe doit avoir une expérience récente (moins de 5 ans) dans le renforcement institutionnel et organisationnel ;

- Au moins un des experts doit avoir une expérience dans la mise en oeuvre et l’évaluation des approches « financement basé sur la performance » dans le secteur de la santé , (sera considéré comme un atout une expérience préalable d’analyse/évaluation/gestion de composante FBP auprès de la Banque Mondiale) ;

- Au moins un des évaluateurs devra avoir un profil orienté analyse de l’efficience des programmes de santé dans une approche « value-4-money » ;

- Au moins un des experts devra avoir une spécialisation dans l’analyse et la visualisation de données quantitatives.

Compétences linguistiques de l'équipe : la maitrise de la langue française est obligatoire pour toute l’équipe. Certains interlocuteurs en RCA ne maitriseront pas la langue française et à ce titre, l’équipe –si elle ne prévoit pas d’expert local maitrisant le Sango - doit envisager de recourir à des interprètes.

Nombre de jours demandés par catégorie:

Catégorie I - 65 minimum, Minimum 1 Expert

Il est attendu que le/la Team Leader soit un expert de catégorie I. Il/elle doit posséder une expertise senior en évaluation démontrable et cohérente avec les exigences de cette mission. Dans le cas où l’équipe proposée comporte plusieurs experts de catégorie 1, il importe que le/la Team Leader fournisse pas moins de 30 jours ouvrables, don’t au moins 20 sur le terrain.

Catégorie II- 185 minimum -  Minimum 4 experts*

Il est attendu qu’au minimum 4 experts de Cat II participent à la phase de terrain et se rendent en RCA (l’absence d’un expert ou une mission de très courte durée devront être dûment justifiées dans la méthodologie)

INCOM is looking for:

• 1 Senior expert on Public finance management to analyse education financing in the Kosovo system, as one of the three key topics of the rapid education diagnosis implemented by ETF on behalf of the European Union office in Pristina.
• The expert recruited under this assignment will be considered as full member of the ETF RED team and is expected, beyond his/her individual deliverables, to contribute to the team’s collective intelligence, through team meetings and other means.
• The expert should produce the following deliverables:

1. Financial data collection, analysis and visualisation (data tables, infographics, narratives)
2. Stakeholder consultation activities, including two missionw in Kosovo (mission report, minutes of interviews and/or focus groups)
3. Contribution to the RED final report (chapter on financing: draft and final version)

• The language/s of the project is English.
• The Expert profile should cover:
• Expertise on public finance management, State rules and/or international standards for budget planning, distribution and execution, financial management, fiscal decentralisation, etc. demonstrated by at least 10 years of experience or 10 assignments directly in the PFM field
• Aptitude to analyse figures and budgets
• Hands-on expertise of evaluation methodologies and tools used by international community (EU or other development partners) to assess projects, programmes or policies (at global or sectorial level)
• Knowledge of the education sector, in particular in terms of issues related to the financing of the different segments of the education system, or of the system as a whole (sector specificities for budget planning, resource mobilization, financial tools…)
• Excellent analytical skills to be proven by an authoring role in the production of analyses, and/or by recognized contributions to evaluations and assessment exercise, to be evidenced by a list of publications and reports.
• Minimum 10 publications
• The asset: Knowledge of methodologies for the education sector diagnosis (e.g. SABER, RESEN/Country status report)

The implementing period is a total of 19 man days from July  2022 to March 2023

INCOM is looking for:  1 Researcher who will provide advuce on the issues of resilience of education, training, skills development and support to employment systems, hereafter human capital development (HCD) systems. HCD systems are complex environment where educational, skills, economic, labour market policies interact. Identifying schemes and solutions that apply to diverse circumstances would prove far from real; at the same time, the features of resilience in HCD systems are being studied while practices of resilient responses are becoming known and revealing some degree of comparability.

The assignment will be implemented under the ETF FWC Lot 1 and  should address the following main questions:

1. What key features characterise resilience of HCD systems?
2. How can the governance of HCD systems help in preparing for and reacting to shocks?
3. What should HCD systems do to ensure continuity, especially for those most exposed to the risk of being left behind?

• The languages of the project is English.
• The expert should have working experience in EU and/or EU neighbouring countries

• The Expert profile should cover:

*Knowledge of resilience of public policies and public systems in context of crisis and disturbance, such as pandemics, conflicts, disasters, refugees displacement and other extreme events, proven by research and/or teaching and/or policy advice and/or publications.

*Between 5-10 years of relevant professional experience, including doctoral work if any, of which at least 2 years related to the thematic area.

*5-10 years of experience in EU and/or EU neighboring countries.

*Knowledge of public governance, public management and public administration proven by research and/or teaching and/or publications and/or policy advice.

The implementing period is a total of 15 man days from July to November 2022

The purpose of the project is  to  provide support services for ETF activities in the countries of Central Asia namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

The service provider will be required to provide upon request the five main types of services described below:

1. Organisation of different types of meetings
2. Logistics organisation
3. Language services – (interpretation, translation, editing and proof reading)
4. Ad hoc consultancy services – (trainers, facilitators, national expertise)

Add-ons to standard services

N/A

KE1, TL:

• Qualifications and skills required:

-Master degree in law, or, in its absence, at least 5 years of equivalent professional experience in law on top of the general professional experience specified below.

- Strong written, verbal and inter-personal communication skills in English.

- Computer Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent).

• General professional experience:

- Expert should have at least 12 years of general experience in law related to cultural heritage and/or cultural asset management.

• Specific professional experience:

-At least 5 years of specific professional experience related to legislation on identification and protection of cultural heritage, as well as rules on control of trade and international circulation (export & import) of cultural goods.

- At least 2 experiences related to legislation approximation with EU related acquis, in the area of protection of cultural heritage, control of trade, export and import of cultural goods.

- At least 2 team management experiences as Team Leader.

KE2/ National expert:

• Qualifications and skills required:

-Master degree in law, or, in its absence, at least 5 years of equivalent professional experience in law on top of the general professional experience specified below.

- Strong written, verbal and inter-personal communication skills in English.

- Computer Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent).

• General professional experience:

- Expert should have at least 12 years of general experience in the approximation process of the Albanian Legislation;

• Specific professional experience:

-At least 6 years of specific professional experience related to legislation on cultural heritage,

- Experience in the approximation process of Albanian culture heritage legislation is considered as asset.

KE3:

• Qualifications and skills required:

-Master degree in architecture, history, cultural heritage management, or 5 years of equivalent professional experience on top of the general professional experience specified below.

- Strong written, verbal and inter-personal communication skills in English.

- Computer Skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint or equivalent).

• General professional experience:

-Expert should have at least 12 years of general experience in public administration and related to cultural heritage.

• Specific professional experience:

-At least 6 years of specific professional experience in the field of management of Cultural Goods and /or Cultural Heritage.

- At least 2 years of experience in protection, trade and international circulation of cultural heritage assets and/or fight against their illicit trafficking and related enforcement.

- Expertise in the Albanian legal and institutional framework in cultural and historic heritage is considered as asset;

The minimum requirements covered by the team of experts as a whole are detailed below:

• Qualifications and skills required for the team:

A master level or post-graduate studies in Education, Management, or another related field.

• General professional experience of the team:

At least 6 years of experience in the sectors related to the lot.

• Specific professional experience of the team:

-At least 6 years' experience in Social Protection Sector Projects/ Programmes for policy design and implementation (expert 1 cat. II)

-At least 3 years of experience acting as expert for evaluations of development projects and knowledge on gender equality/mainstreaming (expert 2 cat. III)

• Language skills of the team:

Excellent analytical, facilitation and communications skills and ability to negotiate amongst a wide range of stakeholders.