Responsibilities

• Serving as the focal person for the GIZ project for intellectual agenda setting, overall strategic direction of the assignment
• Supervision of the experts and quality assurance
• Personnel management, specifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, as well as planning and steering assignments and supporting the experts
• Ensuring results monitoring and regular reporting is conducted in accordance with deadlines and in alignment with the logframe indicators in relationship to the results
• Providing general expert advisory services on women’s and girls’ rights, access to resources and representation in decision-making processes

Requirements

Qualifications required

• Education/training: PhD or its equivalent in Political Science, Social Sciences, Human Rights, Gender Studies, International Law or other related field
• Language: 1Knowledge of English, C1-level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• Knowledge of an additional AU working language: French or Arabic or Portuguese, C1-level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Professional experience required

• 7 years of professional experience in working on projects on gender equality, women rights and/or women’s empowerment
• 5 years of professional experience in support of an intergovernmental body or agency
• 10 years of professional experience in Africa
• 10 years of experience in development cooperation projects