Project Coordinator
Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #198/2019
STEP Programme
Background
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 50 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 BMZ/ Germany funded, and GIZ/ German Cooperation implemented “Sustainable Training and Education Program” (STEP) is supporting the Ethiopian Government with its reforms in Higher Education and Technical Vocational Education and Training/ TVET.
Reform of post-secondary education, particularly in the technical sector, is a critical aspect for moving Ethiopia towards its development goals. STEP supports its partners in the Ethiopian government to change the higher educational and TVET sectors targeting on the improvement of graduates’ competences needed in the labour market. The Ethiopian partners are government offices on federal and regional levels as well as educational institutions.
Youth unemployment is a global challenge. According to the World Bank, the global youth unemployment rate was around 13.4% in 2017. The majority of African countries have to struggle with significantly higher rates (e.g. Tunisia 36.3%; Ivory Coast 25%). In large parts of Africa, even young adults with higher education are often unemployed. The lack of “employment-related skills” – the knowledge and skills that the economy is looking for today (e.g. “digital skills”) – is increasingly becoming a problem. The prevalence of skills shortages is an obstacle to the development of local enterprises, foreign investment and thus hampers the development of our partner countries. Training young people in job-related digital skills plays a key role in developing and strengthening labour markets in the 14 countries of the project, including Ethiopia. Effective training in digital literacy is thus beneficial not only for the local ICT sector but also for all private sectors in need of digitization (e.g. agriculture, food processing, automotive, electronics, healthcare, textile industry). The attractiveness of the countries as business locations will be sustainably improved with a more digitally trained youth pool.
As one of the most important socio-economic actors in Africa and the Middle East, Orange has a clear medium and long-term interest in building innovative digital ecosystems in countries where it has a presence. Supporting local economic development, particularly by creating opportunities for young people, is important to create a stable and sustainable business environment. The Orange Digital Center project builds on an ambitious program to support entrepreneurship.
Currently the project would like to recruit a qualified project coordinator orange digital center as per the details below: –
Position: Project Coordinator
Place of Work: Addis Ababa
Required Candidate: One
Application deadline: December 22, 2019
Under the umbrella of the Orange Digital Center, training, coaching, mentoring and professional change training sessions are offered. It aims to improve the skills of young graduates, focus the education of students more on tomorrow’s jobs and promote entrepreneurial skills.
The Orange Digital Centres (ODC) consist of:
- Software School (Coding School),
- workshop for digital hardware (FabLab Solidaire) and
- a start-up accelerator (Orange Fab).
Responsibilities and Duties: –
The Project Coordinator for the Orange Digital Center (ODC) is responsible to ensure a smooth coordination among the stakeholders of the project (including GIZ, Orange, Associations, Ethiopian government bodies and others). S/he will act as an ambassador of the project and will represent the projects interest towards others. S/he will react and report in a timely manner to new situations which may affect the quality of the implementation.
Support all general project management activities such as:
Activity preparation, implementation and follow up
- Initiate and follow up on procurement of services and goods
- Knowledge management
- Reporting
Coordination of Project Activities in Ethiopia. Areas are not limited to but will include the following:
- Coordination of internal and external experts
- Prepare, discuss and communicate monthly workplans with stakeholders
- Facilitate communication and cooperation between Ethiopian stakeholders and GIZ
- Draft Terms of References for external consultants and actively support the consultants in delivering high quality outputs
- Support coordination of program activities for improving capacities of key actors
- Support other project activities in order to reach the project’s objectives – areas of involvement will be agreed upon as neede Implement tasks under the technical and disciplinary supervision of the develoPPP for jobs project Manager.
Job Requirements
Qualifications
- University Degree: Msc or above (Management, ITC, Education)
- Excellent knowledge on the Ethiopian education and entrepreneurship system
- Excellent knowledge on digital skills
- At least 8 years professional experience in a comparable position
- Fluent in written and spoken English, French is considered to be an advantage
Professional experience
- Proven experience in project management, including budgeting, and operational planning
- Experience with set up of new projects
- Experience within GIZ is an asset
- Experiences in handling multi-stakeholder projects
- Experiences in public-private-partnerships or private sector
Other knowledge, additional competencies
- Technical background: Digital Skills, entrepreneurship, Education
- Working with Youth
- Good network within the Ethiopian ITC landscape
How to Apply
Application procedure:
Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their motivation letter along with their non-returnable recent CV via Email: [email protected]
Note: –
Please make sure you mention the vacancy number and position title ‘Project Coordinator #198’ in the subject line of your email application. Due to large number of applications we categorise applications with the vacancy numbers. Applications without vacancy numbers in subject lines might not be categorized in the appropriate folder and could be disqualified.
Applications without vacancy numbers in subject lines might not be categorized in the appropriate folder and could be disqualified.
We encourage persons with disabilities to apply for the position. In case of equal qualification, persons with disabilities will be given preference.
Applications from qualified women are encouraged.
More Information
- Job City Addis Ababa
