Internship
GIZ- Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #075/2018
GIZ – AU
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 commission of the Ethiopian government and international donors.
In their Agenda 2063, the African Union (AU) Member States have set the goal of providing Africa’s youth with better access to education, training, skills development, employment and economic opportunities as well as leisure and cultural activities.
The creativity, energy and innovation of young people is seen as a driving force for the political, social, cultural and economic transformation of the African continent. To unleash these development-promoting potentials, the exchange between young people and Pan-Africanism should also be supported, including by increasing the mobility of African youth within the continent by 2025.
There is already several youth exchange and volunteer programs at AU level with the aim of promoting the skills of African young women and men to shape sustainable development processes and improve their employability and competitiveness.
The African-German Youth Initiative (AGYI) is being implemented in Germany and African countries. Engagement Global is coordinating the establishment of the initiative, which is designed to support partnership-oriented encounters between young people in African countries and Germany. On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), GIZ is strengthening the resources, skills and capacity of the partner structures. Headquartered in Addis Ababa, the pan-African initiative is initially working in three partner countries (Benin, South Africa and Tanzania), and is aligned with the AU’s Agenda 2063, the African Youth Charter (2006), the African Youth Decade 2009–2018 Plan of Action and the pilot countries’ own national youth strategies.
Position: Internship
Remuneration: As per the GIZ scale
Application deadline: May 04, 2018
Duration: 3 month with possibility extension
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Responsibilities:
Assistance in the planning, implementation and reporting of project activities and research, especially for the support of the AGYI Innovation Fund, communication with other GIZ programs, especially in the education sector, and GIZ offices in pilot countries.
· Contribution to project reporting.
· Knowledge management and information exchange.
· Taking on administrative tasks.
· Attend internal and external meetings.
· Content and logistical organization and follow-up (documentation) of events.
· Collaboration on creating reports and queries.
· Translation work.
· PR and communication work (fact sheets, posters, articles, best practices).
Qualification:
· The candidate is preferred to be currently enrolled in or have a degree in Political Science, Economics or Social Sciences, International Relations, Communication or related field.
· First practical experiences in the field of international cooperation
· Practical experience in the field of youth engagement, youth empowerment or volunteering and youth exchange programs
· Practical experience and skills in the field of PR and communication
· High conceptual skills, flexibility and team and communication skills.
· Ability to present complex issues concisely.
· A proven cultural sensibility. Ability to work efficiently and structured under time pressure and under difficult circumstances.
· Proficient in MS Office products.
· High command of English and French, German is an asset.