Team Leader
Country: Lao PDR
Project: Climate Protection through Avoided Deforestation (CliPAD)
Subject of the tender: Support of agricultural enterprises along selected agricultural value chains
Donor: GIZ
Project duration: January 2025 to March 2027
Duration of position: 27 months
Application deadline: September 30, 2024
For further information, please contact Fernando Camargo: fernando.camargo@eco-consult.com
Tasks:
- Overall responsibility for the work packages of the contractor
- Overall strategic & conceptual advice
- Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the overall GIZ project at local and national level
- Design, implementation and monitoring of capacity development measures for local partners in the areas business development and entrepreneurship promotion
- Responsibility for taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality, environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation)
- Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting local and international experts
- Overseeing regular monitoring and evaluation of project activities and reporting
- Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ
- Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase
- Providing recommendations for leveraging synergies and avoiding duplication with interventions by other development agencies
- Preparing and hosting policy dialogues in close coordination with GIZ
- Ensuring data protection and information security
Qualifications:
Education/training: University degree (‘master’s or equivalent) in Economics, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship or Innovation
Language: Knowledge of English C1-level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in private sector development within the agricultural sector of which 12 months in the last 5 years
Specific professional experience: 7 years of professional experience in climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches for the private sector of which 12 months in the past 5 years
Leadership/management experience: 4 years of management experience in projects, companies or other organisations with disciplinary leadership responsibility for 5 people
International professional experience outside the country/region of assignment: A total of 5 years of professional experience in two countries outside Laos
Professional experience in the country and/or region of assignment: 3 years of professional experience in South-eastern Asia (in accordance with UN DESA Statistics Division), of which 1 year in Lao PDR
Experience in the field of development cooperation: 6 years of experience working in development cooperation projects
Other: 3 years of experience advising political institutions on MSME promotion
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7 years of professional experience in climate change mitigation and adaptation approaches for the private sector (8 out of 10 points) of which 12 months in the past 5 years (2 out of 10 points) |
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