Germany – Event services – 10046558-Short-Term Expert Pool for regional integration, employment, and digital transformation in the EU Southern Neighbourhood

To deliver technical assistance flexibly and on demand across these thematic tracks, UfM Hub II requires a Short-Term Expert Pool (STEP): a pool of qualified experts that can be rapidly mobilised to provide technical advisory services, analytical work, facilitation and capacity development in response to emerging needs, without the lead time of individual ad hoc procurements. The contractor will establish and operate this pool, ensuring the timely identification, mobilisation and quality assurance of experts assigned to specific requests from GIZ, covering regional cooperation on trade, investment and employment; digital and telecommunications regulation; digital skills; and cybersecurity.
The contractor shall establish and operate a STEP capable of rapidly assessing and responding to technical support requests from GIZ; identifying, mobilising and managing qualified short-term experts; delivering high-quality, results-oriented technical assistance, analytical work and capacity development; and ensuring quality assurance, knowledge management and reporting in accordance with GIZ standards. Individual assignments will be commissioned by GIZ on a rolling basis according to programme priorities and emerging needs, and may take place remotely or on-site, primarily in the countries of the EU Southern Neighbourhood, EU Member States and other locations relevant to programme implementation.
Work is organised into four interrelated Work Packages:
Work Package 1 - Regional cooperation on Trade, Investment and Employment: technical expertise on regional economic integration, employment and private sector development, including trade facilitation, investment climate reforms, competition policy, sustainable value chains, SME competitiveness, employment promotion, and Union for the Mediterranean processes and initiatives.
Work Package 2 - Digital and Telecommunications Regulation: technical expertise on telecommunications and electronic communications regulation, digital...