Advisor Digital Skills and Employment at GIZ Rwanda: (Deadline 22 October 2021)

Advisor Digital Skills and Employment at GIZ Rwanda: (Deadline 22 October 2021)

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Advisor Digital Skills and Employment

As a federal enterprise, GIZ supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development.

The programme Digital Skills for an innovative East African Industry (dSkills@EA) is currently looking to fill the position of Advisor Digital Skills and Employment.

Duty station: Arusha, Tanzania (East African Community)

Fixed-term contract

Responsibilities

The advisor is responsible for

•  managing the area of digital skills trainings that forms part of the programme objectives
•  managing the area of industry-academia collaboration that forms part of the programme objectives
•  assisting project initiatives to provide professional advisory services to the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) and cooperate with academia and industry
•  assisting the organisation and implementation of national and regional events of the project
•  monitoring & evaluation
•  innovation and knowledge management within the GIZ Cluster of projects with the East African Community (EAC) and the wider GIZ network

Tasks

1. Digital skills training

The advisor

• develops in close consultation with the partner and relevant stakeholders the training concept for the project to achieve its goals in this area
•  conducts necessary background research and consultations with partners and stakeholders for the design and implementation of training measures to assure a needs-based approach
•  prepares and coordinates the commissioning of consultants for the implementation of trainings
•  monitors the development and implementation trainings along a workplan
• deals with the design, preparation and implementation of workshops, seminars and other events on issues connected with digital skills trainings
•  supports the external communication on training measures

2. Industry-Academia collaboration

The advisor

• assists the academic consortium of the Centre of Excellence for ICT in East Africa (CENIT@EA) with the involvement of industry in the Master Programme Embedded and Mobile Systems
•  assists IUCEA in operating and promoting the regional online matchmaking platform “Skillsmatch”
•  advises IUCEA in industry-academia collaboration in consultation with the partner and the Integrated Expert at IUCEA
• deals with the design, preparation and implementation of workshops, seminars and other events on issues connected with digital skills trainings
• supports the external communication of success stories in industry-academia collaboration

3. Regional networking and cooperation

The advisor

• supports cooperation, regular contact and dialogue with the key partners of the project, such as during the regular Jour Fixe of the project’s “Technical Team”
• supports cooperation and engagement with stakeholders of the project, especially from academia and the industry in the region

4. Knowledge management and M&E

The advisor

• ensures knowledge transfer within the project and to other projects in the EAC Cluster as well as the wider GIZ network
•  conducts the monitoring and evaluation of project activities and results in line with the project’s objectives and indicators
• draws up reports and presentation documents for internal and external presentations
• prepares appropriate inputs for presentations and contributions to project reports including annual reports, and contributes to other reports required by the project manager and GIZ Head Office

Required qualifications, competences and experience

• At least a bachelor degree (Master degree preferred) in studies such as ICT, business, social sciences, capacity building or another field that is related to the required tasks
• 5 years professional experience and 3 years in a comparable position in an ICT/digitisation related area
•  professional experience in digital skills trainings
• professional experience working with academia and industry; experience in industry-academia collaboration a plus
• professional experience in an international context and with international institutions; experience in development cooperation a plus
• very good working knowledge of standard office IT and computer applications (e.g. MS Office)
•  fluent written and oral knowledge of English (German is a plus)
• Team player mentality, strong communication skills, intercultural competences, culture-sensitive, professional behaviour, humour
• willingness to undertake upskilling capacity building as agreed with the manager and in line with the personal development plan

Applications:

Interested candidates should send their letter of application together with the CV and copies of academic certificates by email to hr.giz-tanzania@giz.de.

Please use the subject line “Advisor dSkills@EA”.

Closing date for submission: 22.10.2021

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

GIZ Tanzania is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all qualified and eligible candidates regardless of their gender, origin, religion/belief, disability, or any other minority group.