As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives. GIZ promotes complex reforms and change processes.

GIZ- Internal/External Vacancy Announcement ‘#089/2024’

CDSDR III Project – Climate Chage Cluster

GIZ supports the Ethiopian Government in various areas, increasingly also in the Ethiopian lowlands, which account for nearly 60% of Ethiopia’s land area. They are inhabited by more than 18 million (agro-)pastoralists, and people who create their livelihood from related professions. Due to population growth and the increasingly frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, this livelihood system is increasingly put at risk and the people, their livestock and the harvests have become increasingly vulnerable. Extensive resource use like overgrazing and deforestation causes food insecurity, soil degradation, and erosion. The result are dry valleys, in which rainwater flows quickly out of the area before being able to infiltrate into the soil. This further exacerbates desertification and food insecurity. To address this issue, the Dry Valley Rehabilitation and Productive Use (DVRPU) approach was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Bureaus of Agriculture (BoA) in Afar and Somali regions.

The Capacity Development for Strengthening Drought Resilience (CDSDR) Project has started its third phase. It promotes the DVRPU approach with a series of technical, biological, economic, social, institutional, and managerial measures applied to rehabilitate entire dry valleys for the benefit of the inhabitants and their animals while ensuring environmental stability. Besides upscaling of the approach in other weredas of Somali and Afar regions, it will further expand its application to selected lowland areas of Oromia and SNNPR regions.

Against this background, GIZ CDSDR III is recruiting one intern as outlined below:

Responsibilities and Main task (Monitoring and Evaluation)

• Support to prepare and implement tracer studies
• Support to improve M&E system: Usage of Kobo toolbox for preparation of quarterly M&E workshops
• Contributions to M&E master table (main internal database)
• Contributions to Monitoring briefs (summary of status and monitoring data for wider internal usage; development of a template)
• Contributions to the development of dashboards (with Alex) in MS Excel
• Development of inputs for communication products
• Support in preparing annual reports
• Preparation of master table for application of Power BI once approved by GIZ
• Feedback on M&E system – and adjustments

Responsibility and Main task (Communication and PR)

• Supporting the project communication specialist in implementing a communication and knowledge management roadmap
• Following the guidelines and toolkits provided by the Communications Unit.
• Adhering to the country-wide communication strategy
• Participating and contributing to the Communication Network (Best practices, knowledge, and information exchange, part of the editorial team for country-providing information for internal media, etc)
• Preparing and organizing photos and communication materials for the country and climate change cluster photo archives and project folders.
• Actively contributing to the project communications DMS folder on MS Teams
• Organizing the project’s photo archive with a full description for each photograph. Filtering old SDR Photo and uploading only necessary photos to CDSDR III Teams communication subchannel
• Organizing and updating federal and regional partners list with full information including addresses.
• Supporting design development and proofreading of communication and knowledge products
• Conducting communication and knowledge product inventory and keeping records.
• Contributing to the project’s event organization
• Actively contributing for internal communication channels or activities aiming to improve information exchange.
• Actively supporting information exchange and dialogue between different staff groups
• Distributing key information and materials to program/project staff
• Taking Minutes of Management Meetings of the joint CDSDR III and LSRP Projects and Technical Team Meetings when necessary.

Requirements

Qualifications

Academic background: University degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Social Studies, Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Rural Development or relevant fields and or bachelor’s degree in communication, journalism, or fine art and related field with zero years of work experience

• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel
• Advanced knowledge of MS Power BI
• Knowledge in the application of online survey tools, e.g. KoboToolbox, is appreciated

Required additional abilities.

• Ability and openness to learn how to apply defined tools independently
  interest in communication tasks and basic knowledge on writing, editing and design
• High degree of initiative
• Solution-oriented way of working
• Team skills