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Expertise France is the public agency of French international technical cooperation. The agency operates around four priorities:
- democratic, economic and financial governance;
- security and stability of countries in crisis/post-crisis situations;
- sustainable development;
- strengthening health systems, social protection and employment.
In these areas, Expertise France carries out engineering and implementation missions for capacity building projects, mobilizes technical expertise and acts as an aggregator of projects involving public expertise and private know-how.
With an activity volume of 233 million euros, more than 400 projects in portfolio in 80 countries, and 63,000 days of expertise, Expertise France focuses its action towards France’s solidarity policy, influence and economic diplomacy.
The role of the expert(s) will be to support and reinforce the capacity of the Greek authorities to ensure emergency prevention, preparedness and response, and climate change adaptation. Expertise is required in one or more of the following fields:
- Atmospheric science / Climate science
- Business Administration
- CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards)
- Civil engineering
- Climate change / Climate change adaptation
- Community Engagement and Volunteering
- Cybersecurity
- Data protection
- Data science (data collection, processing, analysis and dissemination
- Disaster risk management and operations
- Earth Science, Environmental Geoscience and Environmental Geography
- Earthquake engineering (seismology)
- Emergency and security management
- Emergency medical response
- Environmental engineering
- Environmental Economics
- Fire prevention
- Fire safety
- Flood / floodplain management
- Forest fire
- Forest management
- Geospatial engineering
- Information technologies
- Infrastructure engineering
- Law (e.g. Maritime, Immigration,…)
- Law enforcement
- Lifelong Learning / Up-skilling & Re-skilling
- Meteorology
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Public health
- Restoration / regeneration ecology
- Software Engineering
- Sustainable agricultural and environmental management [landslides, waste management, geo-hazard, etc.]
- Transport & logistics on emergency related fields.
- Water management
- Waste Management
The concept notes detailing each output of the project will be produced during the implementation of the ongoing project and will serve as basis to further define the terms of reference and hence deliverable of each expert.
The Greek authorities have committed to continue the reform of the public administration in order to boost state efficiency, transparency and meritocracy. To support this reform, Greece has requested assistance from the Directorate General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) of the European Commission. DG REFORM contracted Expertise France, the organisation nominated by the Reform Partner France, to provide technical support (TS). Expertise France has supported administrative reforms in Greece since 2011.
This project led by Expertise France provides support in the emergency preparedness and response, and climate change adaptation, in Greece, with the purpose of i) improving the coordination and stakeholder consultation mechanism in Greece as regards emergency preparedness and response and ii) supporting the development of a climate change adaptation strategy.
To this end, Expertise France is currently looking for a pool of short-term and medium terms experts in the fields detailed below.
Qualifications and skills
- University Degree (preferably at postgraduate level) in any Science or Engineering fields, such as Physics, Chemistry, Environment management, Forestry, Geology, Natural Environment, Civil Engineering, Surveying Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Law, or any other field relevant to the assignment. In the absence of such degree, at least 10 years of professional experience in relevant domains.
- Excellent knowledge in written and spoken English. Knowledge of Greek will be an asset.
- Proven analytical, research and reporting abilities.
- Excellent report-writing skills in English. Report writing skills in Greek is an asset.
Professional experience
General professional experience
- Minimum 7 years of postgraduate professional experience in international and/or national level in fields relevant to the assignment (or minimum 3 years for candidates applying for junior expert positions).
Specific professional experience
- Proven track record of involvement in minimum 2 assignments related to civil protection and/or climate change adaptation
- Knowledge of Greek context and experience in working with the Greek administration is an asset.
Selection criteria for applications
The selection process for candidates will be based on the following criteria:
- Candidate’s training/diplomas related to the expert assignment
- Candidate’s experiences linked with the expert mission
- Candidate’s expected linguistic understanding
- Candidate's knowledges related to local context (country or region intervention)
