Digitalization specialist for Biodiversity and Forestry Project
GIZ- Internal and external Vacancy Announcement #111/2019
GIZ- Biodiversity and Forestry Programme
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 field officer for the coordination of activities on site for the implementation of a sustainable supply chains project (with a focus on coffee) for the Biodiversity and Forest, as specified below.
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Position: Digitalization specialist for Biodiversity and Forestry Project
Place of Work: Addis Ababa, with frequent duty trips to the field
Application deadline: June 23, 2019
Field of activities
Digital technologies and applications open many opportunities to connect the rural population with information flows and innovations, services, knowledge and education, thereby creating employment and prospects. In order to enable small farmers in rural areas to earn fair incomes and to promote sustainable, social and environmentally friendly development, the German development cooperation uses digital applications for the monitoring and management of agricultural value chains, to increase transparency in the supply chains and to assess the project’s impact on the farmers’ livelihoods.
The digitalization specialist will divide the work among two projects: the Biodiversity and Forestry Programme and the Sustainable Supply Chain and Standards Project. For both projects the main field of activity will be the implementation of ICT solutions for the monitoring of value chains, the collection and tracking of data, the storage and analysis of information, and the use of digital and innovative communication tools.
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities
The employee has the following main duties and responsibilities:
The Specific Tasks
Technical advice to the project in the field of innovative communication technologies (ICT)
- Identify ICT tools for the specific requirements of the projects and assess their suitability
Overall responsibility for all digitalization and monitoring systems, software, processes, and equipment across both projects, including the management and maintenance
Knowledge management, collaborative learning and dissemination of digital solutions
Communication of projects results
Other responsibilities
Qualifications required
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