Analyst Position of Prosecutors Vetting Commission

Background:

In 2021, the government of the Republic of Moldova started the justice sector reform, aiming to ensure integrity and accountability of justice sector stakeholders and to increase society’s trust in the justice sector. As part of the justice sector reform, the government decided to conduct an extraordinary vetting exercise of judges and prosecutors, to improve the integrity in the justice sector.

This vetting process is a unique endeavour for the Moldovan society. It is a thorough and tough process that can happen only once in a good way. It asks a lot of society: there might be temporarily limited capacity in the justice sector, and it can have substantial consequences for personal careers. Yet it is also a historic process, that works towards the betterment of the Moldovan justice sector and will therefore have positive impact on Moldovan society in the end.

The Center for International Legal Cooperation (CILC) is assigned by the European Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to facilitate the Prosecutors’ Vetting Commission (also known as “Commission 3”) and its Secretariat. CILC is continuing its effort to add to the team of professionals to staff this Secretariat.

This call for experts aims to create a shortlist of motivated and qualified people for the following position of ANALYST:

Analysts form the core of the Secretariat. As an analyst you will investigate the backgrounds of the people that are vetted. For the Secretariat, CILC is looking for a diverse range of analysts/investigators, with legal knowledge/skills, financial knowledge/skills and asset analysts. For an analyst, having strong analytical skills and solid writing skills are the most important qualities. The analysts will report to the Commission, the Head of Secretariat and the Senior Analyst.

The analysts/investigators conduct and compile integrity (background) checks, including but not limited to:

• Analyzing candidates’ financial circumstances, declarations, including the five-year declaration submitted in the vetting context;
• Researching and compiling relevant open-source data regarding the vetting of prosecutors and candidates;
• Analyzing other sources of information submitted by public and private parties regarding the vetting of the subjects or candidates, relevant for integrity assessment;
• Drafting, including in cooperation with co-workers, individual integrity assessment reports for review by the Commission members;
• Drafting interim and final reports for review by the Commission.

As an analyst/investigator, the following criteria make you eligible:

• Higher education degree; Degrees in law, finances, audit, accounting, public order may be considered an asset;
• Have 3 or more years of professional work experience. Experience in integrity, anticorruption or criminal investigation, tax investigation, foresing accounting, audit, financial analysis, legal profession/justice sector, is an asset;
• Affinity with the legal context of the vetting process;
• Some experience in drafting analytical texts and/or judicial decisions;
• Highly organized and detailed-oriented, able to work in a high-performance environment;
• Able to work within strict working procedures, handling data in a secure and meticulous way;
• Ability to communicate at a high level, both orally and in writing;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Good written and spoken English (at least at B2 level of CEFR) and native Romanian.
• Person of the highest personal and professional integrity.

General conditions for the position

Applicants should be aware of the following: 

• The position is full-time.
• Project duration April 2023 – April 2026.
• Probation period – one month.
• Moldovan nationals offered a fulltime position may take a leave of absence and/or suspend their contractual obligations from their current Moldova based employer for the duration of this contract, but may not be actively engaged with, nor paid by any other organization during the contract period.
• Remuneration is based on a CILC salary and service delivery grid specifying the scales per function. Actual remuneration will be based on the qualifications and experience of an applicant in line with the salary grid and employment/assignment policy of CILC. The monthly remuneration for this position is up to 6000 Euro brutto. 

• When contracted, signing of a Non-Disclosure Agreement and abiding by the Code of Conduct for Secretariat staff is mandatory. This means amongst others no engagement with political parties/events and modest behaviour.
• CILC welcomes applications from candidates who fulfil the specific profiles, irrespective of gender, disability, marital or parental status, racial, ethnic or social origin, colour, religion, belief or sexual orientation.

Disqualifying factors:

• Current or past work in the Moldovan prosecution system, in any role.
• Status as a candidate prosecutor.
• Status as a student at the National Judicial Institute.

Procedure for application and selection:

Expressions of interest can be submitted via email only via secretariat@cilc.nl. Please include in the subject of the email for which position you express your interest. The deadline for submitting the applications is 27th of February 2025. Applications submitted to other mail addresses will be excluded from consideration.

Required documents include: 

• Current CV – in English.
• Contact data of professional references including name, title, email address and phone number.

For each position, CILC will choose from the pool of expressions of interests the people who fit the positions best, against the criteria of: 

• Level of professional knowledge and experience
• Level of professional skills/capacities

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Short-listed candidates will be invited for an (online) interview. A background check will be part of the recruitment procedure.