Background
Postal activity comprises a large, indeed enormous, part of the world’s market economy. Admittedly, postal growth has not kept pace with the extraordinary expansion of the communications market. Nonetheless, its scale and scope remain impressive, its growth prospects are moderately reasonable, and the postal market comprises some of the largest companies and employers in the world. The Posts’ activities intersect with all aspects of the economy and represent 2 per cent of GDP in industrialized countries. The major Posts represent some of the largest corporations in the world. Historically, the Posts have enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with technological change, both encouraging its development and being one of its biggest consumers. As such, the Posts have been central to the development of air transportation, logistics, sorting machinery and barcode technology, electronic-document transfer, electronic retail counters, track and trace technology, funds transfers, and electronic mail. The Posts are among the largest consumers of transportation services – land, air, and sea. Currently in the postal market in Albania there are 11 operators of postal services. Albanian Post is the public operator, state owned at 100%, which enjoys the rights to the reserved area. In the Republic of Albania, the market of non reserved postal services is liberalized. Postal services providers can operate freely in this market with a provided license. They can provide basic services outside the reserved sector across the country or in one or more regions if they want (without being required and without the right to state subsidies). Within the framework of providing technical assistance to the Government of Albania (GoA), UNDP/Albania is looking for an expert to articulate the Post policy framework for the period of 2012-2017. The aim of this new policy paper is to define the objectives of postal market development, the liberalization process in line with EU acquis communaitare for postal services and SAA commitments.
Required skills and experience
- Master degree in public policy, institutional development or related field.
- Minimum 10 years or more of demonstrated experience in the area of governance, economic development and policy development at the
national and sub-national levels. Specific experience in developing postal policies is strongly preferred.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Research, discern and aggregate a number of tendencies or models that have emerged across the postal sector.
- Research and analyze the postal services policy framework in the European Union
- Investigate, study and analyze the present situation and status of Albanian Post, assessing the modalities, organizational structure and
operational efficiencies of central and local postal services in the country.
- Articulate, write and present a draft of the Albanian National Postal Policy Framework for the period of 2012-2017
- Utilize methodologies of strategic planning and development tools, articulate an elaborated regulatory framework including policy, strategic
initiatives, potential structural and organizational changes as well as the technology models enabling the creation of a modern postal sector
in the country.
Deadline: 24 November 2011
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