GIZ Vacancy - Technical Project Professional (Code: TPP-WA 2) 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 2 in Provinces, Cities and Districts Climate Policy Advice seeks qualified Indonesian candidates for




Technical Project Professional

(Malang – East Java)



A.      Responsibilities

The incumbent is responsible for

·      Maintaining an overall good flow of communication and information between all involved institutions, mainly counter partners on the city and kabupaten level as well as provincial level

·      Coordinating and executing advisory services on climate change issues in the cities and kabupaten of East Java being responsible contact person

·      Being responsible and serving as focal person for one city or one kabupaten of East Java (to be determined during this contract period)

·      Supporting the identification and development of capacity building measures for counterparts at municipal; district and provincial level, as well as relevant institutions acting as services providers for administrations.

·      Contributing to the monitoring activities in the cities and kabupaten of East Java and ensuring timely reporting to the team leader and counter partners

·      Adapting or developing toolkits for dissemination and mainstreaming climate change strategies for cities and kabupaten

·      Ensuring the dissemination process starting with partner cities and expanding beyond PAKLIM’s regions; ensuring cross-city information exchange in East Java; and ensuring knowledge transfer on provincial level to counterparts and appropriate institutions (services providers) on provincial and inter-provincial level.

·      Assisting interlevel government dialogues and support sector specific policy discussions specifically related to RAD-GRK implementation



·      Special responsibilities:

·      Support the future development and combination of vulnerability assessment and PAKLIM’s ICA approach

·      Support awareness raising among local stakeholders and strengthen their involvement in the implementation of the related climate strategies

·      Support the improvement of gender competences within PAKLIM and act as focal person for gender issues in East Java



B.       Tasks

Communication and Networking

·      Develop and maintain communication with all relevant stakeholders in East Java

·      Develop network and build cooperation with relevant development partners or institutions on the city, district and on provincial level in East Java

·      Cooperate and support PAKLIM’s Central Java office and colleagues

·      Support the interregional communication between Central-, East-Java’s and DIY’s cities and kabupaten

·      Support the development of the component’s dissemination strategy





Development and Planning

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

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

·      Actualize and coordinate the planning continuously together with counterpartners

·      Monitor and evaluate result of activities in East Java, 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
General tasks

·      Maintaining a close cooperation and the flow of information with relevant stakeholders in Central- and East Java

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

·      Responsible to coordinate the project activities in the cities, kabupaten and province

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

·      Acting as one gender focal person within PAKLIM



C.  Other Duties/Additional Tasks

·      Undertake further job trainings related to his/her position and duties, especially with respect to dissemination, gender and development of ‘low-carbon development plans’.

·      Ensure that lessons learned from developing ‘low-carbon development plans’ and related financial/funding options are documented

·      Monitoring and regular reporting of the activities within the cities and kabupaten in charge and other tasks assigned by the team leader.

·      Support all team members of component when necessary and appropriate.



D.   Required qualifications, competences and experience

Formal Education

·         University degree in relevant scientific field

Professional Experience

·         At least 3  years of professional working experience in a similar position

Further Knowledge

·         Excellent command of MS-Office

·         Good working knowledge of modern telecommunication systems

Other Qualifications

·         Language knowledge: English proficiency excellent



Duty Station: Malang



Interested candidate should submit the application letter, CV with latest photograph and list of references to recruitment@paklim.org before 7th January 2014.  Please indicate your application by putting the following code in the subject line: TPP-WA2