Overview
Provide specialised legal and institutional support for a comprehensive assessment of conditions required to establish interoperability between administrative data systems and registries in Montenegro.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct legal and regulatory analysis related to administrative data exchange and interoperability.
- Analyse compliance with national legislation, including but not limited to the Law on Electronic Administration, Law on Administrative Procedure, Law on Information Security, Law on Personal Data Protection and other relevant legal and by-law frameworks.
- Assess institutional mandates, responsibilities and governance arrangements in the selected priority use cases.
- Review existing inter-institutional agreements, protocols and legal bases for data sharing.
- Prepare and maintain a Legal Basis Register for all proposed data exchanges.
- Identify legal or regulatory gaps and provide recommendations for amendments or adoptions.
- Assess compliance with GDPR principles and data protection obligations.
- Analyse legal and organisational safeguards related to sensitive personal data.
- Provide legal inputs to business-process descriptions, data-flow maps, Data Exchange Matrix, draft SOPs, data-sharing protocols, governance arrangements and operational recommendations.
- Support stakeholder consultations and coordination with national institutions.
- Work in close coordination with the International Consultant and National Technical Consultant.
Required Experience
At least five years of professional experience in administrative and public law; personal data protection and privacy legislation; public administration reform and governance; legal analysis related to digital governance and interoperability; Proven experience in legal drafting, policy analysis and institutional assessments; Experience working with government institutions and inter-sectoral coordination mechanisms; Experience working on issues related to education, social protection, employment, health, child protection or administrative data systems is an asset; Experience in multi-sectoral coordination and stakeholder engagement.
Qualifications
Masters degree in Law, Public Administration, Governance, Data Protection, Human Rights, or other relevant fields.
