CON 2026/33 - Senior Consultant for EU Integration and Diaspora Expertise Coordination

Introduction

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Project Context and Scope
Albania’s European Union accession process has entered an increasingly demanding phase, requiring stronger coordination across institutions, sustained analytical capacity and effective follow-up of commitments across negotiating clusters and chapters. At the same time, labour migration and regular labour pathways are increasingly relevant to Albania’s broader migration governance and EU approximation priorities. The consultant will therefore support the General Secretariat for European Integration in its centre-of-government coordination role, while also facilitating the effective use of Albanian diaspora expertise to contribute to analytical work, policy inputs, implementation follow-up and institutional learning. The project contributes to ongoing efforts to strengthen Albania’s migration governance framework, including by reinforcing policy, institutional and regulatory capacities related to regular labour pathways, labour mobility and the effective engagement of Albanian diaspora expertise in priority reform processes. Within this framework, the consultancy will provide both embedded technical support to the General Secretariat for European Integration at the Prime Minister’s Office and coordination support for Albanian Diaspora Experts engaged in the EU approximation process, ensuring that their inputs are demand-driven, coherent, high quality and aligned with institutional needs.
Organizational Department / Unit to which the Consultant is contributing
The consultancy will contribute to the successful realization of the project "Enhancing Policy and Regulatory Frameworks to Strengthen Regular Labour Pathways for Migrant Workers in Albania” (LM0620) through the support of the IOM Development Fund. WBL 1:3:2:001

Required Qualifications and Experience

Education

- Advanced university degree in European affairs, public policy, law, economics, public administration, or other relevant field from an accredited academic institution.

Experience

- Minimum of five years of progressively responsible professional experience in EU integration, public administration reform, policy coordination, migration governance, labour migration, diaspora engagement, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience in coordinating multidisciplinary teams, preparing analytical and policy-oriented documents, facilitating institutional consultations and working with government counterparts at senior technical level.

Skills

- Strong analytical, drafting and policy coordination skills, with the ability to prepare clear, high-quality technical and briefing materials.
- Sound understanding of EU integration processes, institutional coordination and public administration reform.
- Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary experts, quality-assure technical inputs and support effective knowledge transfer to beneficiary institutions.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, organizational and communication skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively with government counterparts, international organizations and technical experts.

Languages

For this consultancy, Full working proficiency in English and Albanian is required.

Required Competencies

IOM’s competency framework can be found at this link . Competencies will be assessed during the selection process.

Values - all IOM staff members must abide by and demonstrate these five values:

- Inclusion and respect for diversity : Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences. Encourages diversity and inclusion.
- Integrity and transparency : Maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
- Professionalism : Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
- Courage : Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on issues of importance.
- Empathy : Shows compassion for others, makes people feel safe, respected and fairly treated.

Core Competencies – behavioural indicators

- Teamwork : Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
- Delivering results : Produces and delivers quality results in a service-oriented and timely manner. Is action oriented and committed to achieving agreed outcomes.
- Managing and sharing knowledge : Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate.
- Accountability : Takes ownership for achieving the Organization’s priorities and assumes responsibility for own actions and delegated work.
- Communication : Encourages and contributes to clear and open communication. Explains complex matters in an informative, inspiring and motivational way.

Notes

IOM covers Consultants against occupational accidents and illnesses under the Compensation Plan (CP), free of charge, for the duration of the consultancy. IOM does not provide evacuation or medical insurance for reasons related to non-occupational accidents and illnesses. Consultants are responsible for their own medical insurance for non-occupational accident or illness and will be required to provide written proof of such coverage before commencing work.

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