PLANET S.A. is preparing a proposal for an EU funded project with the title “Technical assistance to sector working groups to coordinate sector reform cycle and develop national sector programmes” in Albania and the objective of this contract is:
• To improve the planning, implementation and monitoring of national sectors reforms and to establish effective mechanisms for an integrated EU accession process in Albania.
• To successfully establish and roll out Integrated Policy Management Group (IPMG) in key priority sectors and provide support to them to become fully operational and successfully establish a process to coordinate the full sector reform cycle.
• To successfully establish a national investment prioritization system and to create and maintain a “single project pipeline” and to ensure alignment on the strategic policy priorities which will enhance the identification, preparation and selection of infrastructure projects notably in the energy, transport, environment and social sectors.
• to continue EU support to the modernization and harmonization of the legal framework on civil matters in line with Acquis, European Standards and international best practices and support implementation of a new Civil Code.

In this context, PLANET S.A. is looking for a qualified professional for the Team Leader position (660 working days to be allocated from February 2017 till January 2020 in Albania) with the following qualifications:

Qualification and skills:
• Master’s degree or equivalent, preferably in social sciences, political sciences, public policy, economics, engineering or law.
• Very good command of English, both written and spoken (min. level 2 in the scale from 1 to 5 where 1 is excellent and 5 is basic).
• Computer literate.

General professional experience:
• Preferably 15 years but not less than 10 years of professional experience in relation to pre-accession/structural funds and socio-economic development with policy coordination and management of EU funds in EU Members States or current EU candidate/potential candidate countries and/or transition economies.

Specific professional experience:
• Experience as a Team Leader, in at least one project, related to planning and programming of EU funded actions/projects in former or current EU candidate/potential candidate countries
• Preferably 5 years but not less than 3 years of experience in designing and implementing IPA programmes/actions/projects in former or current EU candidate/potential candidate countries.
• Preferably 5 years but not less than 2 years of experience in analysing sector policies and/or strategies and institutional frameworks.
• Experience on sector approach and programming/implementation of sector budget support programmes.

All interested, available and qualified professionals (fully covering the above requested qualifications) are kindly asked to forward their updated CV (tailored as much as possible to the requirements aforementioned) along with their expected remuneration at stamou@planet.gr to the attention of Mrs. Dorina Stamou.