Vacancy Announcement
Technical Advisor for Sustainable Mechanization of Value Chains through Innovative, Gender-Sensitive Business Models
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.
A multitude of innovative ideas in the agri-food sector are waiting to be identified and further developed and implemented with partners. The Fund for the Promotion of Innovations in Agriculture (i4Ag) of the special initiative “Transformation Agriculture and food Systems”, which is implemented for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, works towards this end.
Within the framework of this, we seek and promote innovative ideas for the development of the agricultural and food sector on the topics of digitalisation, mechanisation, renewable energy, agricultural research and advisory services, agricultural policy advisory services in cooperation with the private sector. For particularly promising innovations, we bring together partners worldwide and put together suitable projects for their development and further development.
The fund´s individual measure “Sustainable Mechanization of Value Chains through Innovative, Gender-Sensitive Business Models” will be implemented jointly with Volkswagen and the Machinery Ring Foundation in Kenya and Rwanda with the objective that enterprises put innovative, sustainable solutions in the fields of mechanization and energy into value. By combining expertise on sustainable business models of mechanisation, innovations in e-mobility, external energy supply and capacity building on climate-resilient agriculture, the measure has the potential to develop a role model for scaling up to the entire region.
The position, allocated within GIZ Rwanda’s Cluster on Climate, Energy and Sustainable Urban Development, will be responsible for the implementation of the Rwandan component of the global project, while closely cooperating with further GIZ’s related actors. The project is searching for one candidate for the position of Advisor.
Candidate Profile
Location: Kigali
Fixed Term: 31 December 2024
1. Responsibilities
- Work with the Project Manager in the elaboration of an operations plan with the consortia partners and partner institutions
- Support the Project Manager and the i4Ag unit at GIZ Headquarter in Monitoring & Evaluation
- Technical advice to the consortia and partner institutions
- Cooperation with the private sector
- Support to policy and framework development with respect to the innovations
- Coordination of project activities with public and private partners, external service providers, GIZ and KfW Projects as well as with other international organizations
- Sound organization of multi-stakeholder-consultations, field days and demonstrations, capacity development workshops and trainings in cooperation with external service providers
2. Tasks
Core tasks
- Support the Project Manager in general project planning including preparation and organization of planning activities and their implementation, quality management, monitoring, evaluation, communication, and documentation
- Prepare cooperation agreements with partners including the private sector and terms of reference for consultants as required and coordinate administrative processes for tenders (e.g. agricultural equipment) and financing agreements with partners
- Logistical support for workshops and other events
- Maintaining the relationship to the political partner
- Field Monitoring and Reporting
- Technical advice in the field of SME development, agricultural mechanization and e-mobility
- Maintaining the GIZ and i4Ag tools for monitoring, communication and knowledge management (e.g. IDA, DMS, i4ME etc.)
- Performs other duties and tasks at the request of the Project Manager
C. Required Qualifications, Competences and Experience
- Qualifications and professional experience
- Master’s degree or equivalent in the field of agricultural sciences, economics, mobility, or related topics to the project
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in the field of agriculture especially mechanization, mobility, youth employment, value chain facilitation, SME development
- Demonstrated ability to lead strategic planning, result-based management and reporting
- Solid expertise in gender and youth aspects in agricultural sector
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills as well as a high level of advisory and coordination competence
- Demonstrated experience of working with government departments both at national and county level.
- Professional experience in development and organization of capacity development measures (esp. organizational development, trainings)
- Collaboration experience with agricultural extension services
- Strong communication skills
- Experience with GIZ internal processes and instruments is an asset
- Ability to work in an international team setting and flexibility
- Fluent written and oral Kinyarwanda and English, German is an asset
- Other knowledge and additional competences
- Very good working knowledge of ICT technologies (related software, phone, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g., MS Office, Teams, Outlook)
- Experience in working with graphical material using computer assisted design tools is an asset
- Willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management
- Willingness to undertake short-term business trips to the intervention fields in Kenya, Rwanda and eventually international conferences is a prerequisite for the position.
Interested candidates should submit their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates and references) via our electronic job portal; until 26th September 2023 at 4:00 PM. All attachments should be put together in one PDF file not larger than 2 MB.
GIZ is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified candidates. 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.
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