The deputy team leader will be in charge of coordinating the activities managed by Expertise France (EF) and within the framework of the project to support the fight and prevention against corruption and organised crime in the Republic of Moldova funded by the European Union, and will in particular manage component 4 of the project aimed at providing the secretariat for the coordinating body of donors working on this issue in the country. Based in Chișinău, she/he will be placed under the supervision of the team leader, and will work closely with the operational coordinator of the Project, the three component managers as well as the shared office of Expertise France in Moldova.

More precisely, she/he will be in charge of:

• Steering and implementation of component 4

Provide the secretariat for the network of technical and financial partners that aims to support the fight against corruption in Moldova (convene meetings, prepare agendas, writing minutes, monitoring and sharing information, including progress);

Ensure coherence between all project components and their alignment with EU membership, and promote synergies between projects.

• Support for the management and coordination of the Project - under the supervision of the team leader:

Support the definition of activities and resources planning in accordance with the European Commission’s Reform Agenda;

Contribute to the establishment of smooth and regular communication links with the institutions involved in the Project;

Support the team leader on a daily basis for the implementation of the project, particularly in the partnership dimension with the consortium’s partner agencies (CIVIPOL and UNDP), and ensure overall consistency between all the Project’s actions (support for the Project component managers, convening regular follow-up meetings...);
Ensure internal project management exercises (monthly reporting, annual reviews, operational and budgetary programming, in conjunction with the team leader);
Oversee the operational framework for deploying short-term expertise;
Support the preparation of working meetings.

• Monitoring and evaluation, accountability and learning (M&E)

Supervise and facilitate the M&E, accountability and learning exercise;

Participate in the evaluations commissioned by the Delegation of the European Union, share the results of these evaluations and take into account the recommendations of the evaluators for improvement;

Participate in the evaluation of feedback and the dissemination of good practices (capitalization), in collaboration with the EF team based in Paris.

• Participation in project governance

Support the organization of project governance bodies (convocations, minutes of steering committee meetings and follow-up technical committees);
Represent the project alongside the team leader with partners and governance bodies, and drafting related documents;

Support coordination with other implementing agencies (CIVIPOL and UNDP Moldova) to ensure complementarity of actions.

• Reporting

Supervise/aggregate the technical reporting according to current procedures (donor reporting and internal planning reports/exercises at Expertise France);

Consolidate the interim and final technical reports for all project components (integrating the parts of the consortium partners).

• Quality control of product deliverables

Monitor the quality of mission reports and deliverables produced by the experts, in collaboration with the team leader and the head of component 2.

-    Any other task required by Expertise France as part of the project.