Linpico News and Job Opportunities

Linpico is seeking to recruit a francophone / French mother tongue full time proposal writer to work in our Francophone West Africa office, located in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Candidates should have extensive experience in technical proposal preparation for EU / WB / African Development Bank / Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) tenders covering a wide range of sectors such as Public Finance Management, Private Sector Development, Education and IT. Experience should include coordinating technical proposal preparation, providing significant written inputs for proposals and formatting.

Only applicants who can demonstrate successful proposal writing experience will be considered. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview and should be prepared to provide examples of proposals that they have been responsible for preparing.

Please submit CVs to Ivan Linhart at ilinhart@linpico.com with “Proposal writer – Burkina” as the subject.

LINPICO in consortium with CIPS (Chartered Institute for Purchase and Supply – UK) and Kronauer (BiH) have been shortlisted for an EU-funded Public Procurement project in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Please send your CV to Rhian Ball ([email protected] ) and copy Laury Incorvaia ([email protected]) if you are interested and your CV accurately matches the profile below. (Please note that we will only reply to candidates whose CV matches the Key Expert profile’s criteria).

Deadline for receipt of CV: Wednesday 26^th September 2018 – 6 pm.

Key Expert 1, team leader

• University degree following 4 years of study. Advanced degree asset

• At least 8 years (preferably 12) working for government or as TA to governments in EU member states, candidate countries or potential candidate countries

• Team Leader / Project Manager on at least 1 project (preferably 2) of at least 1 million Euro

• At least three years, preferably 5 years working with the public procurement model of the EU

• Experience in preparing / upgrading the megal framework of PP system (primary and secondary legislation) and operational tools for procurement

• Experience of working in Western Balkand considered an asset.

Key Expert 2, training expert

• University degree following 4 years of study. Advanced degree asset

• At least 5 years (preferably 8) working for government or as TA to governments in EU member states, candidate countries or potential candidate countries

• Long term expert (minimum 6 months) on at least 2 projects (preferably 3)

• At least three years, preferably 5 years providing training on public procurement

• Experience in designing curricula on public procurement

• Experience of working in Western Balkand considered an asset.

Linpico is looking for experts for a project that will provide Technical Assistance to the Government of Uganda for the Implementation of the Justice and Accountability (JAR) Sector Reform Contract.

They Key Expert Profiles are as follows:

Key expert 1: Expert in Extractive Industries Governance / EITI Expert, Expert Category I (500 working days) 

Qualifications and skills

Minimum requirements:

• University Degree in public administration, political science, economics, energy or mineral development or a relevant, directly related discipline.
• Proficient communication and written skills in English.

General professional experience

Minimum requirements:

• At least 10 years of successful professional working experience with supporting the governance of extractive industries towards sustainable development and poverty reduction.
• Proven international experience with the policy environment of the oil sub-sector.

Preferred requirements:

• At least 5 years of professional working experience in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Experience in Uganda is considered a distinct advantage.

Specific professional experience

Preferred requirements:

• Profound working experience in supporting countries on the implementation of the EITI Standard, including close liaison with government officials, company representatives and civil society groups in implementing countries.

Key expert 2: Accountability Sector Expert, Category I (500 working days) 

Qualifications and skills

Minimum requirements:

• University Degree in public finance, economics, public administration, or a relevant, directly related discipline.
• Proficient communication and written skills in English.

General professional experience

Minimum requirements:

• Profound working experience in strengthening public sector monitoring and performance assessment systems.
• Profound working experience with strengthening institutional arrangements and coordination for sector-wide approaches.

Preferred requirements:

• At least 5 years of professional working experience in Sub-Saharan Africa. Experience in Uganda is considered a distinct advantage.

Specific professional experience

Preferred requirements:

• At least 10 years of aggregate professional experience in at least 2 of the following 4 thematic areas: Economic Management, Resource Mobilisation & Allocation, Budget Execution & Accounting, Audit & anticorruption.

Key expert 3: JLOS Sector Expert, Category I (500 working days)

Qualifications and skills

Minimum requirements:

• University Degree in Law.
• Proficient communication and written skills in English.

General professional experience

Minimum requirements:

• Profound working experience in strengthening public sector monitoring and performance assessment systems.
• Profound working experience with strengthening institutional arrangements and coordination for sector-wide approaches.

Preferred requirements:

• At least 5 years of professional working experience in Sub-Saharan Africa. Experience in Uganda is considered a distinct advantage.

Specific professional experience:

Preferred requirements:

• At least 10 years of aggregate professional experience in at least 2 of the following 3 thematic areas: JLOS Infrastructure and access to JLOS services, Promotion of Human rights compliance of JLOS sector, Promotion of anti-corruption, commercial justice.

Key expert 4: Expert for public reforms increasing access to justice, Expert Category I (500 working days)

Qualifications and skills

Minimum requirements:

• University Degree in Law.
• Proficient communication and written skills in English.

General professional experience

Minimum requirements:

• At least 10 years of successful professional working experience with supporting reforms/programs aimed at increasing the accessibility of JLOS service delivery.

Preferred requirements:

• Profound working experience with strategic planning, costing, budgeting and monitoring of JLOS frontline infrastructure and services.
• At least 5 years of professional working experience in Sub-Saharan Africa. Experience in Uganda is considered a distinct advantage.

Specific professional experience

Minimum requirements:

• Profound working experience with strengthening informal/customary justice mechanisms.
• Profound working experience with strengthening human rights compliance and accountability in the JLOS sector.

Preferred requirements:

• Profound working experience with strengthening child-friendly and gender-sensitive services in JOS institutions.  Profound working experience with the scaling-up of state-funded legal aid.

Key expert 5: Judicial case management Expert, Expert Category I (500 working days)   Qualifications and skills

Minimum requirements:

• University Degree in law, public administration, IT or any other subject closely related to case management systems.
• Proficient communication and written skills in English.

General professional experience

Minimum requirements:

• Profound working experience with strengthening the supervision functions and M&E systems of JLOS institutions
• At least 10 years of professional experience with institutional case management of JLOS institutions.
• Profound working experience with the automation of the management and storage of records

Preferred requirements:

• Profound working experience with the design- and development phases of Integrated Information Management Systems on the basis of a an inter-operability framework
• At least 5 years of professional working experience in Sub-Saharan Africa. Experience in Uganda is considered a distinct advantage.

Specific professional experience

Preferred requirements:

• Working experience with the analysis and re-design of case management business processes in JLOS institutions.

Please submit CVs to Ivan Linhart at [email protected] with Uganda TA as the subject.

Thank you.

Linpico is seeking an individual to take the role of Team Leader for the implementation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement- II project.

The main objective of this project is to strengthen Georgian public institutions capacity to comply with commitments set out in the EU-Georgia Association Agreement (AA) including Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area and other joint documents. The period of performance will be approximately 34 months commencing around the end of 2018.

The Team Leader will have overall responsibility for the management of the project activities and coordination of the work of other experts (including non-key experts) and for proper reporting to the Contracting Authority and Project Steering Committee.

See below for the required profile.

Qualifications and skills

• Professional and advanced educational qualifications with experience in the fields of Public Administration, Law, Political Sciences, Social Sciences, EU affairs, International Relations Engineering, Economy or related fields of equivalent scope;
• Excellent English, both written and spoken;
• At least six (6) years or equivalent of 1,320 working days of professional experience in general or specific policy development as part of a European Union Member States ministry or an equivalent from any IPA beneficiary;
• At least 440 working days of experience as Team Leader gained from at least two EU-funded TA (services) projects focused on policy advice;
• Experience as key or non-key expert in the implementation of TA (service) projects funded under IPA/IPA II or ENPI/ENI and focused on the development of mechanisms and systems for inter-ministerial coordination;
• Work experience in EU pre-accession countries and EU western neighborhood countries would be an asset.

To apply, please send your CV to izedginidze@linpico.com with sdjugeli@linpico.com in copy using “TL Geo AA” as the subject.

Thank you.