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Job-ID:
P1527V060
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Location:
Faya
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Assignment period:
07/01/2019 – 11/30/2022
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Field:
Infrastructure
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Type of employment:
full-time
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Application deadline:
05/26/2019
Job description
The Republic of Chad faces significant development challenges owing to its geographical position and difficult agro-climatic conditions. The regions of Borkou, Ennedi and Tibesti are affected by a variety of factors that make them especially vulnerable: lifestyle (nomadism), an extremely dry climate, land mines, high levels of poverty and poor infrastructure. Municipalities in the north – particularly in Faya-Largeau, the regional centre of the northern region – are currently faced with the major challenge of providing urgently needed basic services, a task that is being made more difficult by a lack of resources, limited capacities and insufficient experience in public administration. In the areas of drinking water, sanitation and health in particular, the municipality is struggling to fulfil its role. The project supports the municipality in increasing access to drinking water, sanitation and basic services and sustainably improving the living conditions of the population.
Your tasks
- Responsibility for the project commission, taking into account the specifics of transitional aid
- Project planning, implementation and monitoring in addition to reporting and quality management
- Managing external short-term and long-term experts as well as the budget for the entire project
- Representing the project to the outside world
- Building and maintaining strategic partnerships with implementation partners, non-governmental organisations, other implementing organisations and other institutions
- Coordinating national project personnel and civil society partner organisations that are implementing parts of the project
- Representing GIZ in Chad’s northern provinces
- Continuing negotiations on EU cofinancing
Your profile
- A university degree in a relevant specialist area (e.g. water and sanitation, construction, economics, regional studies)
- Several years’ professional experience in the areas of water and wastewater and/or municipal development with a focus on capacity building, drinking water and sanitation
- Experience implementing complex cofinancing arrangements in challenging contexts
- Experience working abroad, preferably in Africa
- Experience of conflict prevention and peacebuilding measures
- Experience working with GIZ instruments would be desirable
- Communication and team skills, good social and intercultural skills, the ability to perform well under pressure and the ability to cope with frustration
- Business fluency in German and French (spoken and written), knowledge of English would be an advantage
Location information
You will be based in Faya. Medical care and supplies of everyday goods in Faya are limited.
Chad is currently a CTO (compensated time-off) location, with the special conditions (not suitable for families) and privileges (additional leave) this involves. The security situation in most of the project region is tense. Occasional restrictions on personal mobility should be expected.
The security situation is very tense. Security precautions are in place for GIZ staff working on the ground. These and all other GIZ security measures must be observed at all times. Please ensure that you are fully aware of the country-specific information issued by the German Federal Foreign Office. Further information on Chad is available on the country information portal of the Academy for International Cooperation (AIZ).
Notes
Regular business trips to the project regions are envisaged in compliance with the security regulations. Regular overnight stays in the capital N’Djaména are also envisaged.
Please understand that we can accept and process in principle only applications via our E-recruiting system. Following the confirmation of your successful application, kindly check your spam / junk mail folder on a regular basis, since some provider classify emails from our recruiting system as spam.
GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability, both in Germany and abroad. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.
