Latest career openings at GIZ Ghana

Latest career openings at GIZ Ghana. All candidates must read the job description carefully before submitting their application.

Position: Technical Advisor (SCISP)

About Organisation

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) – is a public-benefit federal enterprise working in more than 100 countries worldwide. We work on behalf of the German Government and support public and private sector clients in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment, energy and environment, and peace and security. Our activities cover three priority areas: Energy and Climate, which deals with renewable energy and energy efficiency; Training and Sustainable Growth for decent Jobs; and Peaceful and Inclusive Societies, which focuses on good governance.

Project Brief:

The Sustainable Cocoa Initiative Support Programme (SCISP) is co-funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) from December 2021 until October 2025.
The main implementing partner is the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD).
The primary goal of this programme is to ensure that the Ghanaian cocoa supply chain is compliant with the European Union Deforestation-free Regulation (EUDR) by December 2025.
The programme has over the past three years supported in developing the Ghana Cocoa Traceability System (GCTS), Cocoa-Sector Child Labor Monitoring System (CS-CLMS)

Scope of Latest career openings at GIZ Ghana:

The technical advisor will make technical and substantive contributions to overarching issues in cooperation with commissioning parties/clients, partners, and other actors and thereby support the achievement of the agreed objectives of the respective project.
He/she will focus on one of the project’s thematic areas; Child labour/Gender mainstreamimg and will take technical responsibility for the results-based planning, implementation and monitoring of specific activities for the development of the CS-CLMS and any other emerging tasks

Tasks

Coordinate and assist in preparing and conducting project activities and carries out other activities required for implementing these components.
Assist national and international advisers in carrying out their work in the cocoa supply chain on themes like child labour, gender equity, rules and regulations in the sector in relation to European rules and regulations, private sector cooperation, and certification bodies.
Participate in formulating project action plans and helps synchronise the planning and budgeting system and counterparts.
Ensure knowledge management, collects, processes and distributes relevant information, monitors communication and interaction between government institutions

Qualification Required & Experience

University degree in Agriculture/Social Science, or related discipline in the equivalent (BSc, BA or MSc, MPill MBA).
Very good application of the English language, a knowledge of French and German is a plus.
Good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office).
Strong managerial and organizational competence.

Professional experience

Experience in monitoring and evaluation is a must.
Experience in an international organization is required.
At least 5 years’ professional experience in a comparable position.
Good understanding and work experience in the labour regime including child labour monitoring and remediation

Location: Accra

How To Apply this Latest career openings at GIZ Ghana

Interested and suitable applicants are to forward their Curriculum Vitae (C.V.) and a one-page cover letter stating their motivation to the position and added value to the project to:

recruitment-ghana@giz.de quoting the Job Code 2025/TA-SCISP/31/01. If you do not hear from us four (4) weeks after the deadline, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Deadline: 17/02/2025.