Project
Strengthened capacities of the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality and legality of adopted normative acts and protect fundamental rights
3 Senior Legal Experts
Position
3 Senior Legal Experts
Project description
The global objective of this project is to enhance the rule of law in the Republic of North Macedonia.
The specific objective of this project is to strengthen the capacities and efficiency of the Constitutional Court to control the constitutionality and legality of adopted normative acts and the protection of fundamental rights.
Based on the above description of current situation in the sector, the project will provide technical assistance and advice to the CC to improve its professional and administrative capacities, administrative autonomy, independence, efficiency and transparency, as well as to improve the protection of the freedoms and rights of the individuals and the citizens in front of the CC. In particular, the project will seek to improve the managerial capacity of the court, enhance the human resources and strategic budgetary planning, help drafting on internal acts for improvement on the performance management in the court, organise trainings on the strategic planning, research, analysis and monitoring for the staff etc.
In the field of protection of the fundamental rights of the citizens, the project will prepare assessment of the overall current legal framework for protection of freedoms and rights in the country, analyse the needs and drafting amendments to the Rules of Procedure in the part on the procedure for protection of freedoms and rights; prepare trainings, manuals and guidelines for application of the legal acts and standards developed by the ECHR for protection of freedoms and rights of the citizens before the CC, prepare a Manual for protection of freedoms and rights before the CC etc. In addition, the project will support the extension of the review by the CC for the fundamental rights as included in the 1991 Constitution. It will contribute to increasing the operational capacity of the CC through trainings to stakeholders on how to use this increased practice for protection of the citizens’ fundamental rights.
In a wider context, the project will support the Beneficiary country to ensure rule of law in the country and protection of the individual human rights.
Job description
We are looking for a complementary team of 3 Senior Legal Experts to provide technical assistance and advice to the Constitutional Court (CC) to improve its professional and administrative capacities, administrative autonomy, independence, efficiency and transparency, as well as to improve the protection of the freedoms and rights of the individuals and the citizens in front of the CC in areas of work related to constitutional and/or human rights.
We will more precisely be looking for expertise in development of case management system, management and/or implementation of judicial reforms, legal expertise related to the functioning of EU Member States Constitutional Courts or equivalent institution and/or on the functioning of European judicial systems.
The project should span over 2 years with no less than 270 working days for each expert (approx 60% part-time positions).
Requirements
The minimum requirements covered by the team of experts as a whole are detailed below:
• Qualifications and skills required for the team: Each of the experts shall have at least a Master’s degree in law, or in its absence, general professional experience of at least 5 years above the required of additional professional experience in areas of work related to the constitutional law, human rights law and/or in information technology.
• General professional experience of the team: Each of the experts shall have at least 12 years of professional experience at international and/or national level in human rights/rule of law or in information technology
• Specific professional experience of the team: The expert team (as a whole) shall fulfil the below specific requirements:
-At least one of the proposed experts must have minimum 4 years experience in areas of work related to constitutional and/or human rights.
-Expertise in development of case management system - Management and/or implementation of judicial reforms;
-Legal expertise related to the functioning of EU Member States Constitutional Courts or equivalent institution and/or on the functioning of European judicial systems;
-Experience with the individual application systems and/or experience with cases at the ECHR;
-Experience in drafting of guidelines /manuals, capacity-building, public relations, national legal framework and law making process, case management system.
-Experience in drafting Rules of procedures, analytical researches, drafting assessments, comparative analysis, decisions;
-At least 1 project as Team Leader or Deputy Team Leader of EU funded project for reform of judiciary and/or performance management of judiciary or in related area;
-Experience in the field of training for legal professionals would be an asset;
-Knowledge about the national judicial system in North Macedonia would be an asset;
-Knowledge about the judicial system and major issues related to human rights in North Macedonia would be an asset.
• Language skills of the team: Each experts must possess at least a level C1 expertise in English. Knowledge of Macedonian would be an asset.
North Macedonia
Attachments
Duration of assignment
18/09/2023 - 18/09/2025
Deadline for applications
30/06/2023
Job type
long term
Job status
tender
Project reference
16-0043-269-MKD-ConstCourt