Senior Policy and Legislative Strategy Consultant

The Senior Policy and Legislative Strategy Consultant will provide institutional, strategic, and policy-level support to Barbados to set a clear legislative direction for digital legislation. The consultant will focus on structural sequencing, institutional mandates, and executive briefing to support the development of an omnibus digital legislation framework.

Responsibilities

• Map key institutional mandates and regulatory responsibilities essential for the newly identified priority pillars of the Barbadian digital economy.
• Identify institutional bottlenecks, structural barriers, and alignment opportunities affecting legislative consolidation under an omnibus approach.
• Propose the overall structural sequencing, annotated chapter outline, logical chapter layout, and legislative timeline for the proposed omnibus digital law, including a clear matrix of primary versus subsidiary domains.
• Differentiate between matters requiring primary legislation and those better addressed through executive decrees or subsidiary regulatory frameworks.
• Identify, isolate, and catalogue high-level policy choices requiring formal, baseline Government decision prior to the commencement of full legislative drafting, and surface these in a decision-oriented brief for Cabinet.
• Support the development of a "Prioritization Matrix" to determine which domains (ID, Data, Transactions, etc.) require primary legislation versus those that can be handled via subsidiary regulations.
• Develop an execution-ready strategic roadmap for subsequent drafting phases, multi-stakeholder national consultations, and formal legislative adoption.
• Prepare a concise, decision-oriented brief for Cabinet addressing the rationale for the omnibus approach, implications for Barbados' participation in regional and international digital ecosystems, and a recommended pathway to full legislative drafting, consultation, and adoption.

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
• Policy-Level Support
• Strategic Planning
• Institutional Mandates
• Executive briefings
• Omnibus Legislation Framework
• Public Policy
• Legal Analysis

Languages

English