Senior Digital Economy and Technology Law Consultant

The Senior Consultant will provide technical legal support to Barbados to map out the substantive legal boundaries and priority pillars of the proposed omnibus digital legislation framework. The role involves conducting a high-level gap analysis of existing legislation, identifying legal barriers and opportunities for regional interoperability, and mapping critical legal dependencies for digital public infrastructure and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a high-level gap analysis of existing primary and secondary legislation relevant to the digital economy in Barbados.
• Identify gaps, overlaps, inconsistencies, and outdated provisions impacting the omnibus legislative architecture.
• Identify primary legal barriers to cross-border digital activity including data flows, electronic transactions, and digital services.
• Identify high-impact opportunities for interoperability, regulatory cooperation, and mutual recognition through legislative design choices.
• Highlight where legislative flexibility or enabling clauses could facilitate downstream regional integration without pre-empting policy decisions.
• Identify critical legal dependencies, enabling provisions, and design considerations to support data governance, digital public infrastructure, inter-agency interoperability, and public sector innovation over time.
• Submit a Legal and Institutional Diagnostic Note detailing critical legislative barriers and institutional overlaps within 10 working days.
• Deliver a Regional and Cross-Border Digital Considerations Note identifying opportunities for regional interoperability within 15 working days.
• Submit a Substantive Legal Dependencies Matrix mapping critical legal dependencies and statutory provisions within 20 working days.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree in public policy, law, public administration, or a related field OR education from a reputed college of advanced education with a diploma of equivalent standard to that of an advanced university degree in one of the fields above.
• At least ten (10) years of experience in institutional analysis, legislative strategy, public sector reform, or macro-level digital policy development is required.
• Knowledge of English at advanced level.

Skills

• Institutional and Organizational Analysis
• Legislative Strategy
• Public Sector Reform
• Digital Policy
• Legal Gap Analysis
• Digital Legislation Framework
• Regional Interoperability
• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Data Governance
• Technical Legal Support

Languages

English