The
Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a
German international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development
with worldwide operations. PAKLIM, a
Program advising and supporting the national
government, local governments and industries with climate change
mitigation and adaptation initiatives. Our Work Area 3
in Climate Education and
Awareness, is looking for
Technical Advisor
Working area 3
aims at the support of innovative learning materials and (curricula-)
approaches to consider climate change (inclusive teacher-education and
pilot schools), encourage school campaigns and to undertake
initiatives outside schools, especially in cooperation with CSO, youth
initiatives and media.
A. Responsibilities
- Maintaining an overall good flow of communication and information between all involved institutions, mainly counterparts on national and local level providing professional advice to partners and cooperating with important stakeholders.
- Assisting the counterparts as well as partners on local level in implementing climate change education measures in regard to sustainable development, adaptation and mitigation according to their financial capacity - Supporting pilot projects at schools, in communities and with scouts within the framework of the green school movement
- Identifying needs of possible pilot schools and/or pilot communities in pilot cities/regions and developing pilot projects and pilot tools to strengthen mainstreaming climate change education/awareness strategies in selected pilot areas (e.g. Central Java, DIY, East Java)
- Ensuring cross-school information exchange; and ensuring knowledge transfer on national level to counterparts and relevant partners on local level.
- Integrating results and experience into PAKLIM’s teamwork and the work of all relevant groups
Special responsibilities:
- Support technical implementation of pilot projects in schools, communities and youth groups
B. Tasks
1. Professional advisory services
- Support project planning for the component by developing concepts and strategies, ensure implementation
- Actualize and coordinate the planning continuously together with counterparts
- Take part in the formulation of project planning and facilitate synchronization between the planning, and budgeting system
- Facilitate the process of investigation, assessment, study and analysis in the area of climate change education and the implementation of its technical pilot projects that is needed by the project, the local and national government, and non-governmental institutions
- Contributing to the monitoring activities and ensuring timely reporting to the team leader and counter parts
- Evaluate results of activities and give input/feed-back for better implementation.
- Being responsible for the preparation, execution and documentation of training, workshops, forums, meetings, and other project activities together with the partner institutions
- Go on repeated and extensive field visits to the regions in accordance with the requirements of the project
2. Networking and cooperation
- Develop and maintain communication with all relevant stakeholders on national level and in the selected regions
- Develop network and build cooperation with relevant development partners or institutions
3. Knowledge management
- Support the coordination of the program’s knowledge management activities, especially the knowledge transfer to the different partner institutions
- Ensure that lessons learned are documented
- Monitoring and regular reporting of the activities within the area of “module development” and other tasks assigned by the team leader.
4. Coordination tasks
- Responsible for the timely compilation, documentation, verification and reporting of project related activities including project administration.
- Responsible for monitoring and evaluation of project activities based on the results chains
- Support to all team members of working area 3 when necessary and appropriate.
- Supporting coordination of project activities in the regions
C. Required qualifications, competences and experience
Qualifications
- Bachelor/BA in environmental engineering or comparable technical degree, with a focus on a relevant field (Energy, Waste, Environmental of Climate Education etc.)
Professional experience
- 2 - 5 years’ professional experience, with at least 1 year professional experience in a comparable position
Other knowledge, additional competences
- Very good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office, Knowledge Tree)
- Fluent written and oral knowledge of the European language widely used in the country
- Willingness to up skill as required by the tasks to be performed –corresponding measures are agreed with management
Duty Station : Jakarta
Interested candidate should submit the application letter, CV and list of references to
paklim@giz.de
latest on May 20, 2015. Please indicate your application by putting the following code in the subject line:
TA-WA 3
