Expert for JASPERS projects

GOPA is looking for experts with relevant professional experience in the new member states of the European Union, in the following sectors:

• Preparation of large infrastructure projects;
• National and regional transport (road/rail/air/water transport infrastructures and planning/management of transportation services, and related rolling stock);
• Urban road infrastructure and public transport;
• Cultural infrastructure (musea, concert halls, theatres, sports stadia, congress centres and event management, tourism) and related equipment;
• Urban development (including urban regeneration, housing);
• Water supply and/or sanitation and/or flood risk management;
• PPP-grant blending and State-aid issues;
• Environmental regulations under EEC regulations/law (including EIA, Natura 2000, IPPC, etc.);
• Project management & Procurement;
• Procurement strategy and use of best practice in procurement;
• Technical specifications and construction methods;
• Infrastructure costs estimation;
• Construction programs and expenditure scheduling;
• Advice on structural funds regulatory and legal issues including state aid.

Services may also be required in the analysis of horizontal issues affecting more than 1 project and/or more than 1 country, such as the development of model project approaches, methodologies and guidelines. Typically the inputs would be of relatively limited duration (often 1 to 6 months), and may complement other project preparation activities contracted separately by the beneficiaries. However, longer assignments are also possible.

Interested professionals are invited to send their CV and accompanying letter indicating their field(s) of specialisation and country of experience to the attention of Mr Fabio Drago, or Mr Mathias Lueg,