Regulatory Sandbox Framework and Digital Innovation Senior Consultant.
Overview
Provide technical, regulatory, and strategic expertise to support the feasibility study, design, and implementation roadmap for a regulatory sandbox framework and related regulatory experimentation mechanisms.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess existing legal, policy, and regulatory frameworks governing the ICT sector.
- Develop the regulatory sandbox framework, including governance structures, operational procedures, and institutional arrangements.
- Establish eligibility and selection criteria for participation.
- Define risk management, compliance, monitoring, and evaluation mechanisms.
- Design application, testing, assessment, and exit procedures for sandbox participants.
- Review telecommunications, ICT, and digital economy legislation to identify regulatory barriers to innovation.
- Assess opportunities for regulatory experimentation and adaptive regulation.
- Conduct benchmarking and comparative analysis of international regulatory sandbox models and best practices.
- Develop consultation mechanisms for engagement with regulators, operators, innovators, start-ups, academia and development partners.
- Propose frameworks for multi-stakeholder collaboration and innovation governance.
- Facilitate approaches to strengthen public-private dialogue and coordination mechanisms.
- Identify priority areas and use cases suitable for regulatory experimentation within Senegal's digital ecosystem.
- Develop implementation guidelines, operational procedures, and governance arrangements for ARTP.
- Define pilot initiatives, proof-of-concept activities, and testing methodologies.
- Establish monitoring, evaluation and reporting frameworks.
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and success criteria for measuring sandbox outcomes.
- Deliver workshops, training sessions, and awareness-building activities for ARTP staff and stakeholders.
- Develop practical guidance materials, operational manuals and training resources.
- Provide technical mentoring and advisory support to ARTP during the initial implementation phase.
- Provide ad hoc technical support and knowledge exchange for a period of six (6) months following completion of the training programme.
- Assess regulatory implications and potential sandbox applications for emerging technologies and innovation areas.
- Prepare the initial, progress and final reports, develop strategic policy recommendations and implementation plans, document lessons learned, best practices, challenges, and opportunities for replication and scaling.
Required Experience
At least ten (10) years of experience in telecommunications networks, applications, and projects, acquired within a telecommunications administration, an international organization or institution, academia, or a private operating agency. Proven experience in designing or managing regulatory sandboxes. Solid experience and knowledge of telecommunications/ICT issues. Good understanding of ICT regulatory frameworks, telecommunications licensing and authorization schemes, spectrum policy and management, digital innovation ecosystems, consumer protection, risk assessment and regulatory impact analysis, project management and stakeholder engagement. Experience with telecommunications regulatory authorities would be an asset. Experience in digital innovation, spectrum management, broadband policy, or emerging technologies would be an asset.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in the field of Telecommunications/ Information and Communications Technology (ICT), sciences, engineering 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.
