📢 Call for Applicants – External Auditor
The deadline for submitting applications is November 25th 2025 at 1pm (Beirut Local time).
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📎 B: Application Form
YOUTHMED Project
Empowering Youth for an Inclusive Mediterranean
(A_Y_3.1_0624)
A_Y_3.1_0624 – 001
Planning and Development Agency (PDA) , the Lead Partner of YOUTHMED Project (Interreg NEXT MED Programme), is looking for an External Auditor who will be appointed as First Level Controller (FLC) in the “YOUTHMED” project.
🔹 Project Overview
Total Budget: €1,110,000
EU Contribution: €987,900 (89%)
Programme: Interreg NEXT MED Programme, co-funded by the European Union
Project Duration: 30 months (June 2025 – December 2027)
YOUTHMED aims to strengthen youth participation, cooperation, and civic responsibility across the Mediterranean through inclusive dialogue, cross-border exchange, and digital innovation — enabling youth and youth organizations to co-create solutions and actively shape resilient societies.
Key Benefits and Impact:
- 510 youth trained in civic engagement, media literacy, and digital participation
- 25 youth organizations cooperating across borders
- 1 multilingual AI-powered platform (SmartMaria) to enable youth collaboration
- 4 transnational events with political and cultural leaders
- 1 shared digital knowledge space
- Policy-relevant data and networks to inform inclusive youth strategies
Target Groups: Youth aged 18–30, youth organizations, civic actors, and public institutions in Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, and Spain.
🔹 Assignment Scope
PDA is launching this call for expressions of interest to recruit an External Auditor for expenditure verification in accordance with Interreg NEXT MED Programme rules.
Responsibilities include:
- Verifying delivery of goods/services and performance of works
- Confirming eligibility and payment of declared expenses
- Ensuring compliance with procurement, visibility, and grant rules
- Detecting double funding and ensuring adequate documentation
- Performing on-site verification at least once during the project
- Using the official Monitoring System and Programme EVR templates
- Submitting Expenditure Verification Reports (EVR) to the Lead Partner and the Control Contact Point (CCP)
🔹 Eligibility and Requirements
- Integrity: No legal, financial, or ethical restrictions (declaration required)
- Professionalism: Registered with LACPA for at least 3 years
- Independence: No current or recent business/management links with PDA
- Language: Working knowledge of English is required
🔹 Terms
- Contract Duration: 30 months
- Maximum Fee: €10,000 (gross, all-inclusive)
- Duty Station: PDA Headquarters – Ras Baalbek, Lebanon (verification will include on-site visits)
- Deliverables: 5 reports (4 interim + 1 final)
📬 How to Apply
Please submit the following documents by email:
- Signed Application Form (Attachment A)
- Signed Curriculum Vitae
- LACPA Membership Certificate
- Copy of valid identity document
Email to:
- Hawraa Mahfouz (Project Manager): [email protected]
- Zahraa Bleibel (Communication Manager): [email protected]
Email Subject: Candidate for External Auditor – YOUTHMED Project
⏰ Deadline
Nov 25th, 2025, at 1:00 PM (Beirut Time)
Shortlisted applicants will receive invitation to submit full tenders.
🔐 Data Protection
All submitted personal data will be processed in line with Lebanese laws and EU GDPR standards (Regulation EU 2016/679).
This is not a call for tenders and does not oblige the Contracting Authority to award a contract.
This call is funded by the European Union under the Interreg NEXT MED Programme. The views expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union.