Project Title:
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.