Responsibilities
Tasks to be performed under this contract
The consultant will undertake the following tasks using IOM Legal Identity Unit’s methodology:
- Literature Review:
- Analyze current legal identity documents, policies, and procedures
- Review previous assessments and audits related to legal identity
2. Stakeholder Consultation:
- Conduct interviews and meetings with key stakeholders, including government officials, legal experts, and representatives from relevant organizations, USAID/Ghana and USAID/OTI, different demographics of border communities and mobile populations)
- Gather insights on the practical challenges and needs related to legal identity management
3. Gap Analysis:
- Identify gaps and weaknesses in the current legal identity framework
- Compare existing practices with best practices and standards in legal identity management
4. Regulatory/legal Assessment:
- Assess the compliance of current legal identity practices with national and international regulations
- Identify areas of non-compliance and recommend measures to address them
5. Recommendations:
- Provide detailed recommendations for improving the legal identity framework
- Suggest practical steps for implementation, including potential timelines and resource requirements
6. Reporting:
- Prepare a comprehensive report summarizing findings, analysis, and recommendations
- Present the report and present to key stakeholders and address queries for validation
Deliverables:
- Inception Report: Outlining the literature review findings, methodology and work plan
- Interim Report: Providing preliminary findings based on stakeholder consultation, gap analysis and regulatory assessment conducted with detailed recommendations to improve the legal identity framework in Ghana
- Deliver a detailed presentation of the final report to key stakeholders for validation
- Final Report: A validated comprehensive document with findings, gap analysis, and recommendations
Qualifications
Education
Advanced degree in Law, Public Administration, or a related field
Experience
Minimum of 10 years relevant working experience post-degree
Skills
- Proven experience in legal identity assessments or related areas
- Strong understanding of national and international legal identity standards and regulations
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in stakeholder engagement and consultation
- Ability to make decisions independently and strong problem-resolution skills
Languages
- English
Travel required
- Travel to some border communities in the Northern region of Ghana will be required
Required Competencies
IOM’s competency framework can be found at this link. Competencies will be assessed during the selection process.
Values – all IOM staff members must abide by and demonstrate these three values:
- Inclusion and respect for diversity: Respects and promotes individual and cultural differences. Encourages diversity and inclusion.
- Integrity and transparency: Maintains high ethical standards and acts in a manner consistent with organizational principles/rules and standards of conduct.
- Professionalism: Demonstrates ability to work in a composed, competent and committed manner and exercises careful judgment in meeting day-to-day challenges.
- Courage: Demonstrates willingness to take a stand on issues of importance.
- Empathy: Shows compassion for others, makes people feel safe, respected and fairly treated.
Core Competencies – behavioural indicators
- Teamwork: Develops and promotes effective collaboration within and across units to achieve shared goals and optimize results.
- Delivering results: Produces and delivers quality results in a service-oriented and timely manner. Is action oriented and committed to achieving agreed outcomes.
- Managing and sharing knowledge: Continuously seeks to learn, share knowledge and innovate.
- Accountability: Takes ownership for achieving the Organization’s priorities and assumes responsibility for own actions and delegated work.
- Communication: Encourages and contributes to clear and open communication. Explains complex matters in an informative, inspiring and motivational way.
The submission should include:
- Motivation letter and CVs
- A financial proposal outlining the consultancy fee
- Summary of previous consultancies
- Reference of similar or related work done in the past
