The American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) seeks a Judicial Personnel and Law Clerks Curriculum Development Expert to serve as an advisor to the Rodrigo Lara Bonilla Judicial Training School (JTS) as part of a State Department-funded program to strengthen judicial education in Colombia. The Expert will be embedded at the JTS as a representative of ABA ROLI, and (s)he will guide the process of curriculum development with respect to courtroom administration, ethics, and criminal law.

The Expert will report to the ABA ROLI Colombia Program Director and the ABA ROLI Washington, D.C. office, and (s)he will be tasked with liaising directly with the JTS; ABA ROLI subgrant partner, Los Andes University Faculty of Law; other ABA ROLI experts; and Colombian judges and courtroom personnel at all levels of the judiciary, including the Colombian high courts.

This is a paid consultancy based in Bogotá, Colombia. Interpretation/translation services will not be available, and professional or native proficiency in Spanish is required.

Qualifications:

· Advanced degree in Law (Master’s Degree or equivalent; Ph.D. or doctoral degree highly preferred; Graduate studies in university teaching and pedagogy preferred);

· 8+ years of previous professional legal experience as a judge, legal clerk, prosecutor, or legal consultant or legal advisor;

· 2+ years of previous experience as full-time law professor, or 4+yeas as part-time professor, or 6 years as temporary professor (hora cátedra) at a university level;

· Experience in the development of academic publications or research texts (books, chapters or papers national or international journals);

· Experience and knowledge of new pedagogical models of law teaching and innovation for clerk judicial training;

· Professional or native proficiency in Spanish, professional proficiency in English strongly preferred.

Responsibilities:

· Provide an assessment of the JTS curricula offered to clerks and judicial auxiliaries (professionals of different disciplines that occasionally render public service within the judiciary);

· Advise on comparative approaches to legal and judicial interactive curricula development;

• Work with active members of the Colombian judiciary, particularly employees (clerks and assistants), and national or international experts to strengthen the curricula offered to judicial employees and auxiliaries on a variety of topics related but not limited to ethics, backlog reduction, evidence and complex crimes such as corruption;
• Assist the JTS in the development of an academic curricula with a 4-year vision and materials to be used as tests;
• Advise the JTS on the drafting of guides and manuals, and the development of online education tools for the development of the JTS curricula.