Saturday, December 21, 2013

GIZ Vacancy - Technical Advisor (Code: TA-WA4) for PAKLIM Project

The Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a German international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. PAKLIM, a Program advising and supporting the national government, local governments and industries with climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives. Our Work Area 4 in Climate Education and Awareness, is looking for




Technical Advisor

Working area 4 aims at the support of innovative learning materials and (curricula-) approaches to consider climate change (inclusive teacher-education and pilot schools), encourage school campaigns and to undertake initiatives outside schools, especially in cooperation with CSO, youth initiatives and media.



A.     Responsibilities

§  Maintaining an overall good flow of communication and information between all involved institutions, mainly counterparts on national and local level providing professional advice to partners and cooperating with important stakeholders.

§  Assisting the counterparts as well as partners on local level in implementing climate change education measures in regard to sustainable development, adaptation and mitigation according to their financial capacity - Supporting pilot projects at schools, in communities and with scouts within the framework of the green school movement

§  Identifying needs of possible pilot schools and/or pilot communities in pilot cities/regions and developing pilot projects and pilot tools to strengthen mainstreaming climate change education/awareness strategies on national level and in selected pilot areas (e.g. Central Java, DIY, East Java)

§  Ensuring cross-school information exchange; and ensuring knowledge transfer on national level to counterparts and relevant partners on local level.

§  Identifying existing funds for CCE and compiling preparing and disseminating relevant knowledge for access to partners by means of workshops, seminars, training modules, reports etc.

§  Supporting the identification and elaboration of experimental learning methods and relation of those to experimental education

§  Support the identification and development of CCE modules as well as the standard for CCE modules

§  Integrating results and experience into PAKLIM’s teamwork and the work of all relevant groups



Special responsibilities:

§  Close communication with component 2 (CC in cities) in order to ensure best realisation of interlinkages.

§  Responsible for the result based Monitoring activities and duties of the component





B.     Tasks



1.      Professional advisory services

§  Support project planning for the component by developing concepts and strategies, ensure implementation

§  Actualize and coordinate the planning continuously together with counterparts

§  Take part in the formulation of project planning and facilitate synchronization between the planning, and budgeting system

§  Facilitate the process of investigation, assessment, study and analysis in the area of climate change education that is needed by the project, the local and national government, and non-governmental institutions

§  Contributing to the monitoring activities and ensuring timely reporting to the team leader and counter parts

§  Evaluate results of activities and give input/feed-back for better implementation.

§  Being responsible for the preparation, execution and documentation of training, workshops, forums, meetings, and other project activities together with the partner institutions

§  Go on repeated and extensive field visits to the regions in accordance with the requirements of the project



2.      Networking and cooperation

§  Develop and maintain communication with all relevant stakeholders on national level and in the selected regions

§  Develop network and build cooperation with relevant development partners or institutions



3.      Knowledge management

§  Support the coordination of the program’s knowledge management activities, especially the knowledge transfer to the different partner institutions

§  Ensure that lessons learned are documented

§  Monitoring and regular reporting of the activities within the area of access to finance and campaigning and other tasks assigned by the team leader.



4.      Coordination tasks

§  Responsible for the timely compilation, documentation, verification and reporting of project related activities including project administration.

§  Responsible for monitoring and evaluation of project activities based on the results chains

§  Support and give guidance to all team members of component 4 when necessary and appropriate.

§  Supports the coordination  of project activities in the regions



C.     Required qualifications, competences and experience

Qualifications

§  Masters/MSc in an area that is related to the project/programme objectives, with a focus on a relevant field



Professional experience

§  3-5 years’ professional experience, with at least 3 years’ professional experience in a comparable position



Other knowledge, additional competences

§  Very good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office, Knowledge Tree)

§  A proven track record in a managerial position

§  Very good command of English (written and spoken) and German (greatly appreciated)

§  Willingness to up skill as required by the tasks to be performed –corresponding measures are agreed with management





Duty Station : Jakarta



Interested candidate should submit the application letter, CV with latest photograph and list of references to recruitment@paklim.org by 3rd January 2014.  Please indicate your application by putting the following code in the subject line: TA-WA4

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