Job Description
Position: Electoral and Election Observation Expert for the African Union
Period: beginning October 2015 for a period of 27 months (270 working days approx)
Where: Home-based; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Brussels, Belgium.
Objectives:
- To support the African Union, at the institutional level and at the mission level, in developing its human capacity to conduct long term election observation;
- To support the African Union in refining its methodological and technical basis for the conduct of credible and effective long term election observation and;
- To support the African Union in deploying its long term election observation missions
Job purpose:
- To support the African Union in refining its methodological and technical basis to conduct long-term election observation and;
- To support the African Union’s Democracy and Electoral Assistace Unit at the institutional and mission levels, in developing its human capacity to conduct long-term election observation through a sound training mechanism
Key Expert 1: Team Leader
Qualifications and skills
- Higher education degree in law, political, social or administration sciences or equivalent;
- Proven qualifications in reporting (preferably EOM reporting);
- Excellent interpersonal, public relations and networking skills through different professional experiences in intercultural contexts;
- Proven command of English and good knowledge of French
General professional experience
Solid managerial skills and expertise proven by at least ten (10) years of experience in technical assistance in areas predominantly related to governance, elections and human rights.
Specific professional experience
- Relevant election observation experience such as LTO and/or Core Electoral Team member in EU election observation missions or in similar missions conducted by other international organisations;
- Technical assistance on electoral issues, such as the design of a legislative framework for the election process, the structure and preparedness of the election administration, the necessary conditions for the conduct of democratic elections, the training of observers and staff participating in election observation,the voter, party and candidate registration, etc;
- Professional experience in Africa will be an asset;
- Past experience in technical assitance to electoral observation/assistance programme financed by the EU will be an advantage
- Solid coordination skills proven by at least five (5) years experience in :
- democratic governance and elections related matters, preferably with regional organisations and networks and/or public institutions;
- institutional development and/or capacity buidling of regional organisations and networks;
- technical assistance
If interested in this position, please fill out the CV template attached to this job posting and send it back to us. Also, you can find additional information on this project in the ToR Final document.
About the Organization
Business and Strategies Europe is a consulting agency with more than 20 years' experience in the conception, managment and evaluation of projects funded by different bilateral and multilateral donors. Over the course of the last 20 years, B&S Europe has fine-tuned its expertise in institutional support and capacity building. In order to assure excellent implementation and carrying out of projects, B&S Europe provides the support needed be it in the judicial, logistical and/or administrative aspects of project, through:
- Its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, equipped with the most up-to-date IT and telecommunications systems located in the centre hub for many European and international insitutions and organisations.
- Permanent regional branches, located at Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at Pristina in Kosovo and in Bucharest in Romania.
