Project Title:

Improvement of legislation, control and awareness in food safety, animal health and welfare and phytosanitary in Ukraine (ILCA III)

Location:

Ukraine

Position:

Key expert 2: Senior legislation expert, minimum of 720 working days

Qualifications and Skills:

• At least a Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in food safety or sciences, or veterinary medicine or science, or animal husbandry, or phytosanitary, or agronomy / agricultural engineering, or in law, or directly related discipline, or bachelor in the same field plus four years of relevant professional experience, or in the absence of a relevant University degree eight years of relevant professional experience;
• Education in veterinary medicine or plant health will be considered an asset;
• Advanced English language skills of at least level C1 (understanding, speaking, writing) required. Language skills in Ukrainian or Russian of at least B2 (understanding, speaking, writing) will be considered an asset.

General Professional Experience:

• At least 10 years of professional experience relating to the definition, implementation or review of legislation, regulatory frameworks, institutional set up, and related capacity building in fields related to agriculture and rural development.

Specific Professional Experience:

• At least 5 years of professional experience relating to legislation and regulatory development in SPS sectors;
• At least 2 years of professional experience in the legal alignment with EU legislation of national legislation (of EU candidate countries or non EU countries at the time of the assignment) in the sectors mentioned in criterion 2.4;
• Recent experience (i.e. within the past ten (10) years) of participating in the implementation of technical assistance projects, each project of minimum 12 months duration and each assignment in each of these projects of minimum 6 months duration, in support to the implementation of EU acquis in the SPS sectors (re. chapter 12) in EU candidate countries or EU Member States will be considered an asset.

Project Title:

Improvement of legislation, control and awareness in food safety, animal health and welfare and phytosanitary in Ukraine (ILCA III)

Location:

Ukraine

Position:

Key expert 1: Team leader, minimum of 740 working days

Qualifications and Skills:

• At least a Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in food safety or sciences, or veterinary medicine or science, phytosanitary, or directly related discipline, or bachelor in the same field plus four years of relevant professional experience, or, in the absence of a relevant University degree, eight years of relevant professional experience.
• Advanced English language skills of at least level C1 (understanding, speaking, writing) required. Language skills in Ukrainian or Russian of at least B2 (understanding, speaking, writing) will be considered an asset.

General Professional Experience:

• At least 10 years of professional experience relating to food safety, implementation of veterinary activities, legislation or projects, or relating to activities in the phytosanitary or plant health sector. Such professional experience working as an employee at central government level or as an expert in a project in support to central competent authorities (central government ministry, department, agency or authority in the area mentioned above) will be considered an asset.

Specific Professional Experience:

• Proven management experience as Team Leader (or equivalent) in at least 2 technical assistance or consultancy projects, each assignment of minimum 12 months’ duration;
• At least 3 years of professional experience in an EU candidate country (i.e. at the time of the experience) in support to the approximation or implementation of EU acquis in the SPS sectors (re. chapter 12) mentioned in criterion 1.3;
• Relevant recent experience (i.e. within the past ten (10) years) in an EU member state or in an EU candidate country (i.e. at the time of the experience) in support to the development or implementation of SPS11 policy or related public administration reform will be considered an asset.

Project Title:

Advisory Services for Resilient Agri-Food Systems 2.0 (ASRAFS 2.0)

Location:

Multi-Country

Position:

Key expert 4: Expert in SAAFS and FNS’ policies and initiatives, and knowledge and data management

Qualifications and Skills:

• Master’s (or equivalent) degree in Agriculture, Statistics, Economics, Political or Social sciences or other discipline related to statistics / information systems of SAAFS/FNS. In its absence, Bachelor’s degree in the same fields plus four years of relevant professional experience, in addition to the minimum general professional experience requirements mentioned below
• Fluency in English, at least C1 Level (reading, writing, speaking).
• Fluency in French, at least C1 Level (reading, writing, speaking).
• Proficiency in spreadsheets (statistical tools, functions, formulas, data, pivot tables, etc.) and in word processing (editing, styles, publishing, references, etc.) would be an asset.

General Professional Experience:

• At least 10 years of professional experience in SAAFS/FNS themes from a research perspective, and/or in relation to SAAFS/FNS programme design and implementation, and/or in relation to SAAFS/FNS policy implementation, reporting and communication.
• At least 5 years of experience working in / supporting SAAFS-related programmes in partner countries.

Specific Professional Experience:

• At least 5 years of professional experience covering the research or evidence-building of policies, programmes and projects in areas related to SAAFS and FNS.
• Proved knowledge of EU global policy framework and initiatives for FNS and SAAFS in external action would be an asset.

Project Title:

Advisory Services for Resilient Agri-Food Systems 2.0 (ASRAFS 2.0)

Location:

Multi-Country

Position:

Key expert 3: Expert in investment and innovative finances in sustainable agriculture

Qualifications and Skills:

• Master’s (or equivalent) degree in economics, finance and/or other related fields, or Bachelor’s degree in the same field plus four years of relevant professional experience, in addition to the minimum general professional experience requirement mentioned below.
• Fluency in English, at least C1 Level (reading, writing, speaking).
• Fluency in French, at least B2 Level (reading, writing, speaking).
• B2 Level (reading, writing, speaking) in Spanish, Portuguese and/or Arabic would be an asset.

General Professional Experience:

• At least 10 years of professional experience in the areas of investment operations in SAAFS and FNS policy.

Specific Professional Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience with sector approaches for rural development sector policy (analysis and/or public expenditure sector review, budget support), or investment in agro-food initiatives and food security and nutrition (blending operations, private/public partnership) in EU’s partner countries.
• At least 2 years of experience in identification and operationalisation of financing mechanisms in external assistance, involving private sector or public/private partnership.
• Experience with at least 5 projects with banks or financing institutions notably with blending or derisking.

Project Title:

Advisory Services for Resilient Agri-Food Systems 2.0 (ASRAFS 2.0)

Location:

Multi-Country

Position:

Key expert 2: Expert in design, identification, formulation, monitoring and evaluation of aquatic-agri-food systems, food and nutrition security programmes

Qualifications and Skills:

• Master’s (or equivalent) degree in agriculture, economics, agricultural economics or directly related discipline, or Bachelor degree in the same field plus four years of relevant professional experience, in addition to the minimum general professional experience requirements mentioned below.
• Fluency in English, at least C1 Level (reading, writing, speaking). Ability to work in English,
  with strong drafting skills required to draft high standard documents compliant with EU
  corporate style.
• Knowledge of French, at least B2 Level (reading, writing, speaking). Ability to work in French.
• B2 Level (reading, writing, speaking) in Spanish or Portuguese would be an asset.

General Professional Experience:

• At least 10 years of professional experience working in development cooperation or humanitarian assistance.
• At least 5 years of experience working in / supporting SAAFS-related programmes in least
  developed or middle-income countries.

Specific Professional Experience:

• At least 5 years of professional experience covering the research, design, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, programmes and projects in areas related to SAAFS and FNS.
• At least 3 years of experience with international organisations, governments or intergovernmental organisations, or other organisations providing institutional support to States and/or parastatal structures.
• Experience with programmes supported by the EU external action instruments would be considered an asset.