Team Leader/Education Policy Expert

The overall objective (Impact) to which this action contributes is bringing about the broad, long-term change in the political, social, economic and environmental context by assisting the Government of Serbia to implement reforms in the field of education as foreseen in the national strategic documents and international commitments.

Key expert 1: Team Leader/Education Policy Expert (minimum 580 working days)

Qualifications and skills
• Bachelor’s degree - where a university degree has been awarded on completion of three (3) or more years of study in a university or equivalent, or six (6) years of general experience in addition to the requirement defined under the General professional experience;
• Master/Phd in a field relevant for this contract is an advantage;
• Knowledge of one or more of local language(s) (Serbian - Bosnian - Croatian – Montenegrin) will be considered an advantage.

General professional experience
• Minimum ten (10), preferably twelve (12) years of relevant post-graduate professional experience in the field of education;

Specific professional experience
• Minimum two (2), preferably four (4) projects/contracts/assignments in delivering capacity building of civil servants in the field of policy making, implementation, monitoring and/or reporting;
• Relevant post-graduate professional experience in leading teams in the public or private sector and/or donor funded projects in the area of education reform in minimum one (1), preferably three (3) projects/contracts/assignments.