Under the direct supervision of the Team Leader, the Long Term National Expert / Deputy Team Leader will conduct the following main tasks:

• Liaison with beneficiaries and local stakeholders:
  • Ensure a continuous flow of information with project beneficiaries;
  • Contribute in creating synergies with partners and other projects in the justice sector, ensure that there is no overlapping in activities;
  • Assess beneficiaries needs and their translation into project activities, update/draft project documents accordingly;
  • Monitor the local political, institutional and legal framework and report to the Team leader regarding any development (regulatory change, turnover or interlocutors, …);
  • Coordinate with beneficiaries and stakeholders for the organization of activities;
  • Represent the Project alongside with or in the absence of the Team Leader and Project Manager vis-à-vis the EU Delegation, project beneficiaries, and partners;;
• Legal expertise:
  • Research, analysis and drafting of recommendations upon project needs;
  • Assess and analyse the national legislative and regulatory frameworks, upon request of the Team leader, in particular on the following themes: BiH judicial system, criminal investigation procedures, organised crime and corruption, criminal trial procedures, ethics, integrity and conflicts of interests, criminal asset recovery, judicial office holder career management (selection, training, promotion, transfer), judicial office holder disciplinary system.
  • Contribute to project activities: quality control of deliverables, participation in project activities such as trainings, roundtables etc., ensuring that the work plan is properly implemented.
• Project coordination:
  • In close partnership with the Team Leader, ensure the oversight and coordination of the Project, alongside with the Project Manager;
  • Contribute to developing a transversal vision of the project activities and work plan in order to create synergies and avoid overlaps.
  • Support national and international experts in their missions (provide any relevant information/report or documentation on the national framework, organize meetings with national stakeholders);
  • Support the project in identifying and mobilizing regional and national expertise;
  • Contribute to drafting and updating project documents such as work plan, activity matrix and calendar, project dashboards, and drafting/revising project narrative reports;
  • Support the coordination of the implementation of activities in line with the work plan; Organise activities; Draft terms of reference for the mobilization of expertise;
  • Contribute to the implementation of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan: monitor activities, update M&E tools and extract M&E reports;
  • Support the organization of the Project’s steering committee meetings: prepare relevant documentation, moderate meetings, make presentations;
  • In the absence of the Team Leader, call weekly team meetings, demand weekly reports from the experts;

In addition to these main tasks, the Long Term National Expert / Deputy Team Leader can be called to perform any other tasks related to the Project’s implementation and to the replacement of the Team Leader during his/her absence or unavailability.