As German organization for international development cooperation 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 more than 80 partner countries.
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 commission of the Ethiopian government and international donors.
The GIZ Programme for Sustainable Training and Education (STEP) aims at improving the employment prospects of young Ethiopians by promoting more relevant and demand-oriented TVET and Higher Education. The main goal is to create more employment for graduates by improving the matching systems in the labor market. Activities will include the support of multi-stakeholder dialogue platforms to identify problems and solutions for better matching mechanisms. In addition, the skill needs of the industry in selected sectors in the region will be assessed. Skill gaps of TVET and university graduates need to be identified in order to develop innovative pilot solutions jointly with all involved stakeholders.
To this effect the STEP Programme Office is looking to recruit a TVET Expert as per the detail below.
Starting date: September 2018
Duration: June 2021
Major duties and responsibilities
Coordination and project management for the GIZ-activities in the TVET component. Areas are not limited to but will include the following:
Improving core processes of Cooperative Training Models
Support the concept development and alteration of international cooperative training approaches to the local context in the pilot regions
Assist the adaptation of TVET’s strategic framework by relevant stakeholders and strengthen private sector collaboration.
Provide advice for the establishment of the regulative framework documents, guidelines and project set up for innovative cooperative training programs
Support the regional teams of STEP in selected TVET colleges to organize and coordinate the implementation of cooperative training with the partner companies
Facilitate the endorsement of guidelines and handbooks with the Federal TVET Agency for the scaling up of cooperative training approaches
Coordinate programme activities for Improving capacities of key actors in multiplying cooperative training
Coordinate Institutional capacity building (incl. Managemen & research)
Support measures and approaches for digitalization, blended learning in the context of TVET
Support other project activities in order to reach the project’s objectives – areas of involvement will be agreed upon as needed
Support all general project management activities such as:
Communication and PR
Knowledge management
Reporting
Preparation of concepts, strategies and operational plans for current and follow-on phase of the project
Implement tasks under the technical and disciplinary supervision of the TVET Component Manager of STEP
Job Requirement
University Degree: Msc or above
At least 7 years professional experience in a comparable position
Fluent in written and spoken English
Experience in project management, capacity building and ToT provision, experience within GIZ is an asset,
Technical background: engineering, entrepreneurship, MSE support, knowledgeable in the Ethiopian education system, focus on TVET