Multimodal Transport Expert

Place of Work: Permanent Secretariat of the IGC TRACECA, Baku, Azerbaijan

Preliminary Date of the Competition Commission Meeting: 17 July 2026

Main objective of the position: 

• Promoting the development of multimodal transport, including issues of international maritime navigation, inland waterway transport, road and rail transport, as well as combined transport using air transport, along the Europe-the Caucasus-Asia corridor, taking into account the goals set out in the Basic Multilateral Agreement, TRACECA agreements and policy documents;
• Increasing the competitiveness of the TRACECA corridor by ensuring the connectivity of different modes of transport and removing barriers in the organization of multimodal transport.

Key tasks: 

• Monitoring of the implementation of the MLA, TRACECA agreements and policy documents regarding multimodal transport, including the preparation of relevant working documents/studies/statistics/information on the qualitative level of their implementation;
• Monitoring of the implementation of decisions and recommendations of the IGC and the PS IGC TRACECA applicable to multimodal transport;
• Preparation of draft documents of the IGC and the PS IGC TRACECA on the implementation of the MLA, TRACECA agreement and policy documents in the field of multimodal transport;
• Initiating the development of new legal acts and amending existing TRACECA legal acts in the field of multimodal transport;
• Monitoring of functioning of the TRACECA Permits System, preparation of relevant decisions of the IGC TRACECA on its further development, development of proposals for improving the rules and procedures of the TRACECA Permits System;
• Study of current data on the application in the TRACECA countries of national and international rules, conventions and contracts related to multimodal transportations;
• E4laboration of proposals on defining common approaches to determining tariffs for the carriage of goods by rail and sea in international traffic through the territories of the countries of the TRACECA corridor;
• Development of proposals on possible measures to stimulate multimodal transportations, including measures to support/subsidize the rail and sea transportation costs, as well as other logistics costs, including loading and unloading at terminals and seaports;
•  Development of recommendations for the MLA Parties on cooperation with sectoral international organizations and institutions to ensure the development of maritime and multimodal communication and port infrastructure of the corridor; 
•  Analysis of freight traffic volumes along the TRACECA corridor with a comparative analysis of traffic volumes on alternative transport routes;
• Other.

Minimum qualification requirements: 

• Higher education in the field of transport, economics, customs, work experience of at least 5 years in the field of transport in government agencies and/or in international organizations/companies/projects.

Skills and abilities requirements:

• Fluency in the English language. Russian language will be considered as an advantage;
• Good analytical skills;
• Good knowledge of the standard computer office programmes; 
• Time management skills, as well as the ability to work both independently and in a team;  
• Good skills in presentation of materials; 
• Initiative, creativity, desire for self-improvement, ethical behavior.

Employment conditions: 

• Remote work. In case of necessity, 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). 

All candidates must submit their applications by e-mail before the deadline for submitting documents. Applications submitted in incomplete form and/or after the official deadline for submitting documents will not be considered.

Documents required for participation in the Competition:

• application in the form, in accordance with Appendix 1 to these Rules of conducting a competition for filling vacant positions of the Permanent Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Commission TRACECA;
• CV (in pdf format) with photo (no less than 300 DPI),
• a copy of an identity document or passport;
• copies of the documents confirming the required professional education, qualifications and work experience:
• copies of the documents confirming the improvement or qualification assignment based on the results of additional professional education (optional),
• copies of the documents on awarding an academic degree, academic title (optional).
• Motivation letter.

Note: On the first stage documents shall be provided with notarized translations into the Russian or English languages, if they are issued or drawn up in the languages of the MLA countries that are not the Russian or English languages, except the documents confirming the required professional education, qualifications and work experience.

Participants of the Competition can provide additional information about education, experience, professional level and reputation (characteristics, recommendations, scientific publications, 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 Multimodal Transport Expert of the PS IGC TRACECA”.

The candidates in the short list only will be notified. 

More details are available via link: https://traceca-org.org/en/home/vacancy/