For Project: Montenegro—Capacity Building and Improved Legal Harmonization, Performance and Efficiency within the Transport Sector
Our project strengthens Montenegro’s transport sector by enhancing institutional capacity, aligning national legislation with EU transport acquis, and advancing the preparation and implementation of priority transport projects.
The initiative focuses on improving strategic planning, legal harmonization in areas like road safety and maritime transport and developing priority infrastructure projects to a mature stage. These efforts contribute to creating a more efficient, sustainable, and EU-compliant transport system in Montenegro.
DAI is looking to recruit a Governance Expert on supporting capacity building and organizational development
Overall Objectives:
The overall objective of the project is contributing to capacity building, improved legal harmonization with the EU transport acquis and increased performance and efficiency within the transport system in Montenegro.
Specific objectives
Specific objective under this short-term assignment is:
- Objective 1: Providing horizontal support to transport authorities for capacity building and institutional development
The expected outputs include:
- Output 1 to Objective 1: HR Data Report drafted, based on collection of existing HR strategies and plans, existing organisational structures, processes, tasks and responsibilities in job descriptions, existing and necessary number of employees
- Output 2 to Objective 1: Organisational Gap Analysis drafted, including a competence SWOT Analysis of related skills and a Training Needs Analysis (also analysis of staff knowledge of newly harmonised legal instruments from Component 2, based on assessment of collected HR data and information
- Output 3 to Objective 1: Capacity Building Plan drafted, based on the collected data and gap analysis
- Output 4 to Objective 1: tailored Training Program prepared and organised, based on the capacity building plan, utilising a range of training and learning methods
- Output 5 to Objective 1: Study Tour prepared and organised for decisionmakers and practitioners
General Scope of Work
The general scope of work under this assignment is providing expertise to the implementation of Component 1 ‘Support to increased management capacity of institutions involved with transport policy implementation’ of the project, delivering activities to reach the specific objective (providing horizontal support to transport authorities) according to the project’s Work Plan.
Specific work
The SNKE will have the following tasks under this assignment:
- Assessing of existing HR strategies and plans, existing organisational structures, processes, tasks and responsibilities in job descriptions, existing and necessary number of employees, drafting a HR Data Report
- Assessment of collected HR data and information, drafting Organisational Gap Analysis for the main Beneficiaries, including a competence SWOT Analysis of related skills and a Training Needs Analysis (also analysis of staff knowledge of newly harmonised legal instruments from Component 2 of the project)
- Identifying measures and drafting Capacity Building Plan, based on the collected data and gap analysis
- Drafting of tailored Training Program, based on the capacity building plan
Required Qualifications and Experience:
Qualification (educational background)
- University degree (where a university degree has been awarded on completion of five years of study in a university or equivalent institution) or 10 years of experience in the fields relevant to this assignment, in addition to those required under general professional experience (required)
General professional experience
- Minimum 10 years of experience in institutional development – e.g. HR, monitoring, institutional analysis, gap assessment, policy making, etc. (required)
Specific professional experience
- Experience with capacity building activities (required)
- Experience with institutional development of public bodies (preferred)
- Understanding the process of harmonizing national regulations with EU law (preferred)
Language skills
- Good knowledge of the English language (required)
- Knowledge of Montenegrin/Croatian/Serbian language (preferred)
Additional assets
- Computer literacy, incl. MS Office applications (preferred)
Duration: September 2025 - November 2025
Input: Up to 20 WDs
Place of work: Podgorica, Montenegro, 100% (home-base work not accepted)
Interested candidates should submit their
CV and a
brief cover letter not later than by 15th of September.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted!
