Technical Advisor – Skills Development for Youth Employment at the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (German Agency for International Cooperation) is an international enterprise owned by the German Federal government, operating in many fields across more than 130 countries.

In Nigeria, GIZ’s portfolio includes among others, a programme to support the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in its regional integration goals. The programme aims to strengthen sector-specific capacities in the areas of Peace and Security, Customs and Trade as weir as Strategic Management and Organizational Development in the ECOWAS Commission.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Technical Advisor – Skills Development for Youth Employment

Vacancy No: 027
Location: Lagos
Organization: GIZ Nigeria, Skills for Youth Employment in Nigeria (SKYE)

Background

• As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world.
• GIZ has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security.
• Diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe – from the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector and governments of other countries.
• We work with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity. Our main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
• The registered offices of GIZ are in Bonn and Eschborn. Our approximately 23,500 employees, almost 70 percent of whom are national personnel, work in around 120 countries (July 2020)
• GIZ has worked in Nigeria since 1974. From 2004, GIZ has maintained a country office in the capital city Abuja.
• Currently, 361 national and 66 international employees, 19 regional staff, 4 integrated specialists and 3 development workers are working in the country (June 2020).

Programme

• Skills Development for Youth Employment (SKYE) Programme The GIZ Programme “Skills for Youth Employment in Nigeria (SKYE)” supports the diversification of the economy in Nigeria through the promotion of demand-oriented technical and agricultural vocational training and education (A/VET).
• Apart from the sectors agriculture and construction, the project is focusing mainly on the automotive, ICT and other sectors.
• The strategy of the project is to improve the synergy between measures on the demand side for employment (i.e. skilled persons that followed vocational qualification measures, formal and informal TVET and Agricultural-VET (ATVET) measures) with those of the employment supply side (i.e. promotion of a pro-employment environment in the private sector through e.g. job centers, job fairs, short-term training and internship programmes, etc.).
• The purpose is to develop the matchmaking between the supply and demand of skilled labor force and hence to contribute to the decrease of youth unemployment in the country.

Responsibilities
The Technical Advisor supports the project in:

• Achieving the project objectives.
• Ensuring that the advisory services to partners and the capacity development of partners supports achieving these objectives (in areas such as training implementation, private sector partnerships, career guidance, sensitization and network development).
• Ensuring that results of programme interventions are backed up by reliable data, well documented and visualised.
• Developing proposals for additional interventions that support skills development.

Tasks
The Advisor:

• Independently plans, designs, prepares, organizes, coordinates and implements interventions and activities e.g. trainings, seminars and workshops, budgets, networking events, linkages, awareness and sensitization campaigns.
• Supports the identification of consultants and trainers, drafting of ToRs and is in charge of the quality control of the performance of national and international consultants
• Provides strategic, operational and other technical support to stakeholders and partners on federal, state and local levels
• Assists and monitors the development and implementation of unit/ programme plans and activities in close consultation with counterparts to ensure quality and suggests necessary changes, improvements, and initiatives.
• Supports and takes responsibility for the achievement of any other task as needed and assigned by the management
• Identify synergies and promote as well as coordinate activities with stakeholders and partners.

Knowledge Management:

• Ensures knowledge transfer of relevant information to the unit or programme
• Documents and adequately labels all relevant files for future use on the relevant servers
• Prepares appropriate input for various unit/ programme reports including annual reports, presentations and contributes to the other reports required by the programme.
• Assesses and analysis existing interventions in the country to support strategic decision making and advisory services for partners.

General Management:

• Assists in preparing, conducting and documenting internal meetings.
• Assists in preparing, conducting and documenting meetings with partners.
• Assists in keeping track of processes and actions required.
• May be assigned other tasks as required.

Required Qualifications, Competencies and Experience
Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Technical areas such as Education, Economics, Engineering, Social Sciences or in a similar area

Professional Experience:

• Minimum of five (5) years of professional experience with national and international organisations, private sector companies or government institutions
• Work experience in the field of vocational training, employment promotion or career guidance is an asset.
• Proven excellent knowledge of the English language, both oral and written
• Exceptional analytical, conceptional and organizational skills
• Proven good working knowledge of computer applications (e.g. MS Office Package)
• Willingness to strengthen skills and competences as required by the task to be performed in line with measures agreed with the supervisor and management
• Willingness to travel to the field and other programmes offices in Nigeria
• Good communication skills
• A good team player who is willing to take on responsibility

Desired Additional Qualifications, Competences and Experience:

• Initial experience in Nigerian private sector and/or public sector institutions
• International exposure
• Knowledge in issues of gender equality
• Knowledge of security related skills
• Knowledge of issues of gender equality
• Knowledge on value chain development
• Knowledge of security related skills.

Salary
According to GIZ Nigeria Salary scale for Band 4.

Application Closing Date
23rd March, 2022.