Job Summary

Albanian citizens are likely to continue to emigrate for employment, which will have a major impact on the country’s development. Therefore, it is important to provide valid alternatives of employment in the country, especially in those areas experiencing a considerable tourism inflow in the recent years. Other considerable changes to the migration landscape in Albania include: the facilitation of internal migration of the Albanian workforce, an increase in employment opportunities for potential internal migrants, the creation of sustainable reintegration opportunities for returned migrants also, the encouragement of diaspora investment, plus the engagement of communities and businesses representatives will all reinforce conditions for working, living and investing in Albania.

Key Duties And Responsibilities

• Evaluate the baseline assessment conducted on promoting employment for internal migrants, reintegrating returned migrants, and encouraging diaspora investments, at municipal level and inter-institutional cooperation between the local and central level institutions. Through this evaluation, identify the gaps and needs to propose the most feasible approaches to achieve the above project objectives.
• Take stock of the current legal and institutional frame on promoting employment for internal migrants, reintegrating returned migrants, and encouraging diaspora investments, identifying each actor’s roles and responsibilities, resources and capacities, and main gaps, to inform the design of the new legal and institutional frameworks for regular emigration and to provide suggestions for reviewing the current legislation related to migration and labour migration governance.
• Provide suggestions for a coordination mechanism at both horizontal and vertical level, taking into consideration the existing mechanisms, adding more responsibilities and actors and/or proposing new ones.
• Explore the cooperation opportunities, mechanisms and best practices between Albanian municipalities and fields of cooperation; between municipalities, business community representatives, local communities, and other stakeholders to facilitate internal migration for employment opportunities.
• Identify mechanisms and any existing forum like the Inter-municipal Pacts for Employment (IMPEs) between Albanian Municipalities and other actors. Additionally, identify municipalities in need of increased labour force and the skills needed to match labour market gaps as well as the municipalities with high level of unemployment and the skills available. Propose the IMPE between the municipality whose unemployment’ skills match the labour market needs of the other municipality.
• Explore municipalities willingness to enter into the Inter-municipal Pacts for Employment (IMPEs) relationships with other Municipalities and other relevant actors as well as cooperation mechanisms and tools in operational level.

Qualification, Skill And Experience

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60