Nature Conservation Specialist
Internal/External Vacancy Re-Announcement 113/2018 GIZ- Biodiversity and Forets
As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives. GIZ promotes complex reforms and change processes.
In Ethiopia, GIZ has been working for more than 40 years in bilateral cooperation on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and on the commission of the Ethiopian government and international donors.
GIZ Ethiopia is looking to recruit a Nature Conservation Specialist to EWCA for the Biodiversity and Forest programme as specified below.
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Position: Nature Conservation Specialist
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Remuneration: as per the GIZ scale
Application deadline: 13 July 2018
Duties and Responsibilities
The incumbent of this post has the main responsibility for the:
· Co-management of the component Advisory to EWCA together with the international expert
· Technical support is provided to the Technical Adviser of the component Advisory to EWCA;
· Quality for the services delivered to the partner;
· Synergy of activities with the other components of the Biodiversity and Forestry Programme is ensured;
· Technical monitoring of the projects affiliated to the component be ensured;
Tasks
Co-management of the component Advisory to EWCA means:
· To be aware of what is being done at the international level in relation to conservation (and especially at the level of the Horn of Africa)
· To follow the activities of EWCA and other conservation authorities in the region of the Horn of Africa
· To support EWCA in the development and the implementation of institutional development processes (organisational development, institutional set up, etc.)
Technical support to the Technical advisor means
· To follow up strategic and technical planning of the programme and EWCA
· To make sure that all stakeholders understand the activities supported by BFP;
· To ensure the proper implementation of the Operational Plans of the programme at the component’s level;
· To participate in the analysis of funding requests from the partners
Quality for the services delivered to the partner means for the work:
· To ensure the strategic development of the component
· To be always up to date for all kind of contents to deliver advisory on top quality
· To propose budgets depending on the procedures GIZ rules and;
Supervise and steer at any time experts and projects paid by the component
· To ensure that all kind of consultants working within the programme for the component follow the rules and regulations and deliver services on a high quality level
· To follow the thematic supervision and the technical monitoring
The synergy and cooperation with other component means:
· To be in regular contact with the heads of the other components and with field staff
· To ensure that these exchanges are promoted like in a programme internal network
The technical supervision means:
· To cooperate in all kind of planning activities of the programme
· To support partner coordination within EWCA
· To implement the PO and any other kind of plan of the Programme
Other responsibilities
· To stick to the rules and regulations of GIZ.
· To be actively involved in transversal tasks (gender, HIV AIDS, etc.)
· To assume all other assigned tasks of the superior
Qualifications required
· Master degree in ecology, nature conservation, natural resource management or related subject;
· Experienced in policies likeCBD, CITES, Climate Change and all kind of attenuation, , etc.
· Minimum of 5 years professional experience in the sector of nature conservation, park management and related topics and in international organisations
· Good mastering of the English language and at least two Ethiopian languages
The person appling for the job has to prove his/her close relationship and knowledge of the site