Overview
Provide legal and technical expertise to strengthen the approximation, alignment, and transposition of national legislation with the EU acquis, ensuring consistency with EU standards and accession requirements. Support the operationalisation of transposition frameworks and tools and reinforce institutional capacity through coaching and targeted trainings.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide subject-matter legal expertise on approximation, alignment, and transposition of national legislation with the EU acquis.
- Review existing national transposition frameworks, methodologies, guidelines, and supporting tools; benchmark against best practices; identify gaps and areas for improvement.
- Participate in development of concrete, actionable recommendations to improve transposition guidance and tools.
- Support the preparation, review, and quality assurance of key approximation outputs, including legal gap assessments, tables of concordance, draft legislation, and related policy documents.
- Provide practical, on-the-job technical support to relevant counterparts in applying approximation instruments and verifying compliance.
- Support beneficiary institutions to update/refine and operationalise transposition frameworks and guidance through tailored coaching and advisory support.
- Prepare and deliver targeted capacity-building activities (trainings, workshops, coaching sessions) for national institutions.
- Promote integration of comparative accession experience into national practice.
- Support coordination processes through technical meetings/consultations and structured follow-up, and prepare meeting records and concise progress updates.
Required Experience
- 5 years of relevant experience.
- Relevant experience in EU law approximation, legal harmonisation, and transposition of EU acquis at national and international level.
- Proven experience working on EU accession or pre-accession processes, including hands-on involvement in legal approximation in countries that have successfully completed EU accession negotiations.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) preferably in law, EU law, political science, public administration, European studies, or a related field.
