PLACE OF WORK: Permanent Secretariat of the IGC TRACECA, Baku, Azerbaijan

PRELIMINARY DATE OF THE COMPETITION COMMISSION MEETING: 15-19 December 2025

• Legal support of the PS activities with regard of the implementation of the Basic Multilateral Agreement TRACECA, policy documents of TRACECA;
• Promoting and further advancing the harmonization of transport and transit legislation along Europe-the Caucasus-Asia corridor, including the development of new intergovernmental agreements; 
• Legal support of the PS internal activities.

Main duties and tasks: 

• Monitoring of the implementation of the MLA, agreements and TRACECA policy documents, including preparation of the corresponding working documents/ studies/ statistics/ information on the quality level of their implementation;
• Development of institutional recommendations for further improvement and development of the TRACECA corridor in close coordination with the PS experts and the MLA Parties;
• Advising the MLA Parties on legal matters regarding the implementation of the MLA, TRACECA agreements, the IGC resolutions and recommendations;    
• Development of institutional initiatives concerning the harmonization of the MLA Parties legislation in the field of organizing and performing transportation;   
• Collection and processing of data on the current legislation of the MLA Parties on 
• transportation and transit procedures (at the general level);
• Provision of legal assistance to the Permanent Representations of TRACECA in the MLA Parties within the competence of the IGC TRACECA;
• Advising the MLA Parties on legal and institutional issues, including signing, accession, and ratification procedures for the TRACECA agreements;
• Elaboration of draft new agreements, amendments and additions to the existing agreements for the purposes of transport development along the TRACECA corridor; 
• Provision of internal consulting to the PS in codification of international and European laws, rules and agreements in the field of transport;
• Studying current legislation of the MLA Parties regulating organization and performance of transport; 
• Development of draft memorandums of cooperation with international organizations, financial institutions, as well as further approval and support up to their signing;
• Development of draft rules, procedures, regulations, guidelines, etc., to ensure the administrative activities of the PS.
• Research and analysis of current international, European and national processes for the adoption of a legal framework regulating the procedures of international transport;
• Development of recommendations for the implementation of acts, agreements, conventions, etc., into the national legislation of the MLA Parties, promoting      the development of international transport;
• Collection and analysis of research of TRACECA partners in the field of legal issues of procedures for organizing and performing transportation, etc.

The documents sent by e-mail should be in the MS Word or PDF format and are forwarded to the e-mail address in the Apply for job button, marked “Application for a vacancy of the Legal Specialist of the PS IGC TRACECA”.

Detailed job description, required skills and capabilities, package of documents required for participation in the Competition are available via the link:

• https://traceca-org.org/en/home/vacancy/ 

• Higher legal education with 5-year work experience, preferably in the transport sector in government agencies and/ or in international organizations/ companies/ projects. 

Employment conditions:

• Permanent work at the TRACECA Headquarters in Baku. Contract period – 2 years, with the possibility of the extension for the next two-year period, five-day working week (days off – Saturday and Sunday, non-working holidays – in compliance with the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan).