Diaspora Fellowships

IOM’s fellowship call builds a pool of North Macedonian diaspora experts to support EU accession reforms. Future assignments may deliver training, mentoring, policy advice, legislative-alignment support and remote consultations, helping institutions transfer EU knowledge, strengthen administration and implement the acquis.

• Deliver lectures and presentations on EU institutions and accession
• Provide on-the-job training and mentoring to civil servants
• Advise institutions on EU integration and legislative alignment
• Support institutional reform and administrative-capacity development
• Participate in expert visits, study visits and working groups
• Provide remote consultations and advisory sessions
• Transfer practical knowledge from EU institutions and member states

• North Macedonian origin with temporary or permanent residence outside North Macedonia
• Relevant experience in EU institutions, EU member-state administrations, academia, research, policy institutes or EU-focused civil society, or relevant academic qualifications, or practical EU-accession experience
• Technical expertise in at least one EU acquis chapter or related thematic area
• Medical fitness for any appointment
• Personal non-occupational medical insurance before commencing a consultancy

• Experience with accession processes in a candidate or recently acceded country
• Ability to undertake short missions or remote engagement

• EU acquis expertise
• Legislative alignment
• Policy analysis and drafting
• Institutional reform
• Capacity building
• Training and mentoring
• Stakeholder coordination