Technical Junior Advisor Waste Management and Circular Economy at GIZ Rwanda: (Deadline 19 January 2025)

Technical Junior Advisor Waste Management and Circular Economy at GIZ Rwanda: (Deadline 19 January 2025)

Vacancy Announcement

Technical Junior Advisor Waste Management and Circular Economy

for

“Support for sustainable waste management and the circular economy in Rwanda” Project

About GIZ and the Project

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a federally owned international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. The GIZ Office in Kigali covers GIZ’s portfolio in Rwanda and Burundi. GIZ Rwanda/Burundi implements projects on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union and other commissioning authorities in the following priority areas: Sustainable Economic Development; Good Governance; Climate, Energy and Sustainable Urban Development; Digitalization and Digital Economy; and regional projects in the Great Lakes Region.

Summary of the Project:

The project is building the capacity of public and private actors in the inclusive, climate-smart waste management (WM) and circular economy (CE) sector through technical, organisational and in-process consulting. The major work targets are:

• The empowerment for the implementation of WM and CE capacity of state institutions
• The enablement of private enterprises to adopt WM and CE approaches and to find new business opportunities as well as to improve the access of SME to finance for investing into sustainable business ideas and
• Introduction of strategies and plans for circularity in the waste management sector in Satellite cities.

The project is currently working for example on pilots for source separation of organic waste and on cost efficient and labor focused composting and cost recovery and thereby creating the Business Models for municipal solid waste management in districts / satellite cities (meso level). We are also supporting the private sector engagement and access to finance as well as on developing business cases for waste companies (micro level). Finally our team is supporting on strategic approaches for implementing sustainable SWM structures on national level (macro level). These interventions are derived from the Rwandan National Integrated Solid Waste Management Strategy as well as the Circular Economy Strategy and are carried out together with Ministry of Environment (MoE), the Ministry of Infrastructure (MININFRA) and selected cities.

To support the implementation capacities of the project and to build up expert resources in Rwanda the project is seeking for a female junior advisor in order to promote women in technical job positions. With offering a half year Juniors Advisor contract the WCE project is providing the opportunity for young female graduates and professional beginners to gain a foothold in the development sector and for collecting knowledge and experiences in an international professional working environment.

Location: Kigali

Fixed Term: 6 months (renewable upon review)

Position: 1

Start date: 01.03.2025

The Technical Junior Advisor performs the following responsibilities and tasks:

Responsibilities and areas of technical expertise

The major areas of independently and pro-actively carrying out tasks and implementing technical expertise are:

• support of local implementation of innovative waste management approaches and circular economy, specifically supporting local pilots for realizing up-to-date waste management and circular economy structures, adopting innovative approaches for organic waste fractions and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the waste management sector.
• support of coordination of project activities on waste management and circular economy
• independent implementation of technical tasks that fits the experience of a junior advisor
• taking over manageable and defined work packages suitable for a junior advisor

Tasks

Implementation

The junior advisor:

• co-leads the activities promoting circular economy in Rwanda
• supports the coordination of the project’s short-term experts
• facilitates and moderates of community meetings and workshops
• supports project monitoring and reporting activities
• assists with planning, coordinating and documenting meetings, workshops, seminars and other project activities with a focus on technical aspects
• assists and coordinates short-term experts assigned to projects/programmes in completing their tasks
• assists other experts, if necessary, as translatorKinyarwanda – English
• performs other duties and tasks at the request of management
• represents the interest of the GIZ-assisted measure and always acts on its behalf
• carries out other tasks that are within the projects responsibility, even if these are not explicitly cited in the job description

Research 

The junior advisor:

• prepares and carries outqualitative research projects (developing survey instruments, field trials, training field staff, organisational preparation in the field, collecting and analysing data) as part of monitoring and reporting duties
• conducts desk research wherever needed on topics relating to waste management and circularity in Rwanda and the larger region

 Knowledge management 

The junior advisor:

• assists in drawing up reports for the project’s political partner
• organises and ensures up to date project documentation and manages the project’s data management system

 Required Qualifications, Competences and Experience

Qualifications and professional experience

• Recent university degree in a technical discipline related to environment

Professional experience

• Less than 1 year of experience (e.g. an internship or similar) in circular economy and / or waste management
• Knowledge of Rwandan waste sector and circular economy area
• Understanding of business cases on circular economy and waste management
• Deep understanding of the stakeholder landscape of Rwanda’s waste sector
• First experience working with consultants and contractors

Other knowledge, additional competences

• Very good working knowledge of MS Office(Outlook, Word, Excel, MS Teams, etc.)
• Fluent in Kinyarwanda and English
• Experience of project management and research experience in an area related to the project’s/programme’s requirements is desirable
• Willingness to learn on the job and ability to deal with constructive feedback
• is familiar with GIZ planning, implementation and reporting procedures and their changes
• is familiar with other programme components and GIZ-assisted measures, concepts and status of implementation and knows the corresponding experts and staff

Interested candidates should submit their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates and references) via our electronic job portal by using the button “Apply”; until 16^th January 2025 at 4:00 PM. All attachments should be put together in one PDF file not larger than 2 MB.

GIZ is a signatory of the Diversity Charter. Recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the company are important to us. All employees shall be valued – regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, social background, age or sexual orientation. We support equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation, if needed, in order to participate in the job application and interview process and to perform essential job functions. Please let us know, if you have any particular requirements should you be invited for assessment/interview or that you wish us to consider, when considering your application.

Women and persons with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for test and interview.

GIZ Office Rwanda

KN 41 St. / Nr.17, Kiyovu

P.O. Box 59, Kigali,

Rwanda

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