Team Composition: 

Key expert 1: Team Leader – Legal Expert

• Qualifications and skills:  
  • Master's Degree in Law or similar; 

• General Professional Requirements:

  • 12 years experience in the improvement of an institutional structure of vocational education training (VET) and higher education (HE);

  • Experience in registration, monitoring and evaluation systems and capacity building;

•  Specific Professional Requirements:
  • 5 years of experience in similar projects (both theoretical and practical) in the legal and Institutional aspects of accreditation of research institutions and of internal & external quality assurance processes of doctoral studies;
  • Experience in writing assessment reports and in drafting rules in the educational sector;
  • 3 work experiences in conducting trainings in the areas of accreditation of research institutions and of internal and external quality assurance at doctoral studies level;
  • Asset: Experience working in Azerbaijan / Experience working with the Supreme Attestation Commission (SAC);

Key expert 2: Trainer

• Qualifications and skills:  
  • Master's Degree in Law or similar;

• General Professional Requirements:
  • 6 years of experience in the improvement of an institutional structure of vocational education and training (VET) and higher education (HE);
• Specific Professional Requirements:
  • 3 years of experience in similar projects (both theoretical and practical) in the legal and Institutional aspects of accreditation of research institutions and of internal & external quality assurance processes of doctoral studies;
  • 2 work experience in conducting trainings in the areas of accreditation of research institutions and of internal and external quality assurance at doctoral studies level;
  • Asset: Experience working in Azerbaijan / Knowledge of Azerbaijani language / Experience working with the Supreme Attestation Commission (SAC);

Key expert 3: IT Specialist

• Qualifications and skills:  
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science
  • Knowledge of Azerbaijani language

• General Professional Requirements:
  • 6 years of experience in digitalisation of accreditation processes of research institutions;
• Specific Professional Requirements:
  • 1 working experience in writing proposals on digitalization of the accreditation process of research institutions on a web-based platform;
  • Asset: Experience working in Azerbaijan.