Overview
Consultant to conduct a baseline assessment of EU alignment in border governance and migration management frameworks, legislation, policies, and procedures for six Western Balkan entities.
Key Responsibilities
- Compile, review, and analyse existing monitoring mechanisms, screening reports, country reports, and documents established by the EU and accession countries.
- Identify gaps, challenges, and opportunities for advancing EU acquis compliance.
- Develop a standardized, replicable methodology with clear, quantifiable indicators and an alignment scoring framework.
- Produce standardized country profiles and a regional synthesis report.
- Develop a survey questionnaire and target list of key stakeholders.
- Develop a final EU alignment scoring framework with measurable and repeatable indicators.
Required Experience
- Minimum 7 years of experience, preferably with an EU-affiliated organization, a UN agency and/or other international organization working on EU enlargement and accession.
- Thematic expertise in areas related to the EU acquis, EU alignment, migration frameworks.
- Proven experience in undertaking qualitative data collection methods with a strong competency in research methodologies including desk reviews and surveys.
- Proven experience in data analysis.
- Work experience with UN and/or other international organizations would be considered an advantage.
Qualifications
Advanced university degrees in fields relevant to the assignment, including Social Sciences, Public Policy, International Relations, Political Science, or other disciplines with a strong research focus.
