Component 1: Enhancing tripartite social dialogue on national and local level
This component focuses on capacity building activities to be delivered by the ILO technical specialists along with practitioners from EU member states (MS) on topics such as wage fixing in the public sector, minimum wage setting and its relation to the informal economy, employment relationship, social security reforms, active labour market policies, youth employment, collective bargaining benefits including wage-productivity linkage among others to the members of the ESC and its permanent secretariat. The project will also facilitate the creation of an external “pool” of technical expertise the ESC will be able to draw on in order to expand its research scope.

Component 2: Encouraging collective bargaining and setting sectoral collective bargaining infrastructures
This component of the project will enhance the capacity of both the government and the social partners to increase the effectiveness of collective bargaining. Measures will be devised and implemented with ILO assistance in the framework of a national tripartite Action Plan.
Technical capacity of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy to pro-actively perform its key functions to promote collective bargaining including the setting of enabling regulatory and institutional frameworks will be strengthened. At the same time, the capacity of employers’ organizations and trade unions to negotiate effectively and to reach out to potential members will be reinforced. The latter will be achieved through implementation of a training programme on how to effectively engage in collective bargaining targeting employers’ and workers’ organizations at national and sectoral level.
Component 3: Establishing an operational amicable settlement of labour disputes
Under this component, the project will assist in the establishment of an operational and cost-effective mechanism for amicable settlement of labour disputes, and will support the creation and training of a roster of specialised labour mediators/conciliators. Once implemented, the new mechanism is expected to support the social partners in preventing and resolving disputes arising in the process of collective bargaining.

Call for expression of interest within Activity 3.1.2 Pilot training of trainers for conciliators and arbiters:

The present call for expression of interest aims at prospecting candidates , who will be interested in receiving training  on labour disputes conciliation and arbitration using ILO tools and experienced international conciliators in a series of training sessions.

Training will be conducted by international experts and coordinated by the project office in Skopje and by Ms Cristina MIhes, Senior Specialist for Social Dialogue and Labour Law of the Budapest ILO office.
Interested candidates that are fulfilling the criteria detailed below are encouraged to submit their applications:

Activity    Task details    Time frame    Estimated number of months/weeks

3.1.2     
Training of trainers for conciliators and arbiters    
June 2015     
1 week

Time frame
The  training will be organized in the second week of June 2015.

Conditions for eligibility
Candidates should fulfil the following requirements:

-Candidates need to have Macedonian citizenship;
-To have at least Bachelor Degree and minimum 5 years work experience in the    area of Labour Law/Labour relations;
-Candidates need to have an advanced knowledge of the world of work and of industrial relations system in the country;
-Not to be subject of any legal sanctions that will prevent him/her of conducting his professional duties.

This training provides possibility for future receipt of the license for conciliator/arbiter on labour disputes conciliation and arbitration.

Procedure of applying
Interested candidates are kindly requested to submit their CV and cover letter by 6th May, 2015 to the e-mail address simjanoska@ilo.org and kalovska@ilo.org.
The commission formed by the project office retains the right to accept or reject any application. Successful applicants will be contacted by the project office and they will receive detailed information about the training.
Project office will cover all training related costs for the participants.