ANUNȚURI DE ANGAJARE

Centrul de Drept al Avocatilor contracts a Legal and Institutional Reform Consultant

for the Economic Council to the Prime Minister

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Key areas of responsibility

1. prioritized pipeline of legal and institutional reforms affecting asylum-seekers, refugees, beneficiaries of humanitarian protection and beneficiaries of temporary protection, with responsible institutions, decision points, deadlines and expected results;
2. review primary and secondary legislation, administrative procedures and institutional mandates affecting refugees, beneficiaries of humanitarian protection, asylum-seekers, beneficiaries of temporary protection and, where relevant, other foreigners, and identify precisely what must change to enable access to employment, self-employment, social protection and related services;
3. develop amendment concepts, draft legal and regulatory provisions, explanatory notes and implementation pathways together with the institution legally responsible for each measure, so that an identified barrier becomes a proposal that can enter the formal legislative process;
4. map rights and responsibilities across the different legal statuses (asylum-seekers, beneficiaries of temporary protection, recognized refugees and beneficiaries of humanitarian protection, and other foreigners as relevant), to identify gaps, inconsistencies and the legal implications of transitions between statuses;
5. support inter-ministerial coordination and stakeholder dialogue on the Economic Council Platform for legal and institutional reforms, convening the institutions whose agreement is required, surfacing legal disagreements early, and helping to broker a common position before a proposal enters formal clearance;
6. identify and resolve administrative and interoperability barriers that do not require a legal amendment but still prevent people from exercising an existing right, including data-exchange, registry interoperability, documentation and procedural bottlenecks between MIA/IGM, MLSP, ASP, SFS, ANOFM and other relevant institutions;
7. design and support the implementation of workable referral arrangements between MIA/IGM, MLSP and other institutions, so that vulnerable beneficiaries of temporary protection, asylum-seekers and recognized refugees/beneficiaries of humanitarian protection move from status determination to effective access to rights, social protection and other services without unresolved referrals between institutions;
8. provide legal and drafting support to priority workstreams identified with the Secretariat, including the legal and administrative framework for the employment of foreigners, the validity period of documentation issued to asylum-seekers, the freelancer regime, active labor-market measures, the social protection roadmap and the legal and institutional aspects of transitioning from temporary protection to longer-term solutions;
9. for each legal or regulatory measure under review, assess what implementation would require in institutional and procedural practice, including staffing, digital changes and local-level responsibilities, so that a proposal is realistic before it enters the legislative process;
10. maintain a legal and institutional reform tracker recording the status of each priority measure, the responsible institution, the action required and the next decision point, and follow up agreed actions with responsible institutions;
11. work jointly with the Socio-Economic Inclusion and Policy Coordination Expert to ensure that legal and institutional reform proposals are grounded in the economic, fiscal and operational evidence developed under that role, and that both profiles present a coordinated position to government counterparts;
12. mobilize additional legal or specialist expertise when required, drawing on existing Economic Council experts, ministries, UNHCR and UN partners, and short-term specialist inputs for complex legal, digital or sectoral drafting work, rather than personally performing every specialist analysis;
13. prepare legal and policy dossiers, briefing notes, explanatory memoranda and presentations for the Secretariat, government counterparts and UNHCR, as required;
14. build and maintain constructive working relationships with the relevant ministries and state agencies, municipalities, the European Union Delegation, international financial institutions, and civil-society and private-sector partners, as relevant to specific legal reforms;
15. maintain regular technical coordination with UNHCR, including timely sharing of draft legal analyses, amendment concepts and other relevant outputs;
16. contribute to the joint development and periodic review of workplans and priorities with the Economic Council Secretariat and UNHCR;
17. participate in regular coordination and review meetings organized with UNHCR and other relevant stakeholders; and
18. perform other legal- and institutional-reform-related technical tasks within the scope of these Terms of Reference, as agreed jointly by the Secretariat of the Economic Council and UNHCR.

Qualifications and skills required:

Experience — essential:

• at least five years of professional experience in legal analysis, legislative drafting or institutional reform, ideally including in migration, asylum, refugee or human rights law or another relevant field of public law;
• demonstrated, hands-on experience drafting legal or regulatory amendments, explanatory notes or legislative proposals, ideally including in the Republic of Moldova or a comparable context;
• demonstrated experience advising or working with government institutions on legal, regulatory or institutional reform;
• familiarity with international and regional refugee-protection and asylum-law standards, and with Moldova's legal framework governing protection, migration and social protection, or a demonstrated ability to acquire it rapidly;
• sound knowledge of Moldova's legislative process and institutional landscape, or a demonstrated ability to acquire it rapidly;
• demonstrated experience working on the legal status and rights of vulnerable populations, and an understanding of the situation of forcibly displaced persons.

Experience — assets:

• experience in interagency, humanitarian or humanitarian-development coordination, including within a Refugee Response Plan or a similar framework;
• experience working with UN agencies, international financial institutions, the European Union or international NGOs;
• proficiency in preparing legal and policy analytical documents.

Candidates may be required to provide evidence of relevant legal work, such as prior legislative drafts, legal opinions, policy analyses or publications, and/or to demonstrate this knowledge through a written test and interview process.

Languages. Fluency in Romanian is mandatory; excellent command of English is required; working knowledge of Russian is considered a strong asset.

CDA is committed to ensuring diversity of its workforce. Women and men, people with disabilities, Roma and other ethnic or religious minorities, people living with HIV, LGBTQI+, as well as refugees and other people who have the legal right to work in the Republic of Moldova are encouraged to apply.

Please provide details in your CV of previous employment and two references.

Please send a cover letter and CV to law-center@cda.md .  Selected applicants will be contacted by email.