International TVET Expert and Team Leader (m/f/d): ASEAN Swiss TVET Initiative (ASTI)

Our model for success is a better life for everyone and purposeful tasks for our employees. For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as a company of the German Federal Government, has been supporting the implementation of development policy goals worldwide. Together with partner organisations in 120 countries, we are involved in a diverse range of projects. If you want to make a difference in the world and develop yourself in the process, you've come to the right place.

• Job-ID: V000046074
• Location: Phnom Penh
• Assignment period: 07/01/2023 - 08/31/2026
• Field: Social Sectors
• Type of employment: full-time
• Application deadline: 05/21/2023

Job description

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a service enterprise for development cooperation with international operations and global experience. Owned by the Federal Republic of Germany, the organisation operates as a private-sector enterprise with a development policy mandate: to make sustainable improvements to the living conditions of people in the countries we operate in. The organisation’s business area - GIZ International Services - is the vehicle for offering GIZ’s services to international clients.

GIZ International Services is currently participating in the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) tender for the ASEAN Swiss TVET Initiative (ASTI).

ASTI will support the conceptualization, development and implementation of a uniform workplace-based learning (WBL) concept for unemployed young people; especially those with limited education, early school leavers and low skilled workers. They will be equipped with labour market relevant skills that enable better employability and integration into the formal Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system. ASTI will support the integration of the WBL concept into the formal TVET systems of Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar (CLM). (The Myanmar component is optional, depending on the situation in the country and will in any case be implemented by a consortium partner.) Hence, through the partnership with relevant Ministries it will support the national governments in CLM in their endeavour to extend TVET for various target groups including disadvantaged populations and in line with the ASEAN Declaration on Out-of-School Children and Youth (OOSCY). This will be implemented in selected sectors (such as: manufacturing including garments and furniture production, agriculture including agro-processing, construction or tourism) for specific occupational profiles and coordinated on a regional level (CLM). ASTI will also support industry representatives (Chambers/Federation/Associations) and implementing companies in setting up and conducting WBL.

Your tasks

• Overall project management and coordination.
• Communication and reporting to ASEAN Secretariat (ASEC) and SDC.
• Coordination with collaboration partners.
• Participation in regional coordination meetings with ASEAN Member States (AMS) and national coordination meetings (CLM).
• Advise collaboration partners and SDC regarding TVET in general and WBL in particular.
• Coordination of all experts and support staff.

Your profile

Qualifications and skills:

• Master’s degree (or equivalent degree) or higher degree in Economics, Social Sciences, Educational Sciences, Engineering, Business Administration or any other relevant field. In the absence of such a degree minimum 15 years of professional working experience in TVET sectors is required.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Full computer literacy.

General professional experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience in the field of TVET.

Specific professional experience:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in implementation of TVET-related project(s), including at least 5 years in a team leader position, preferably in ASEAN countries.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in project / program management related to TVET with multi-stakeholders.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in implementation of capacity building projects related to TVET.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the implementation of dual-training, apprenticeship training and/or workplace-based learning.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with development of competency-based occupational standards and curricula, assessment & certification processes, and drafting of regulations and/or guidelines related to TVET.

Notes

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GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disabilities, both in Germany and abroad. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.

Please send us an updated CV in EuropeAid format in English.

Our benefits

• We are a provider of international cooperation services for sustainable development and work to build a future worth living around the world. We support projects in over 130 countries to achieve goals sustainably together with our partners.
• Everyone has the same opportunities in our company, regardless of gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or physical disability. We recruit based on specialist expertise and social skills. Transparency and fair opportunities for career advancement are just as much a matter of course for us as gender not being a barrier to taking up a management position.
       
• Extensive check-ups and preventive measures (e.g. on appointment, before the outward journey, during the stay in a country of assignment, in an emergency) are provided to our staff and the family members accompanying them as a matter of course.
• We reward staff who achieve their agreed annual targets with a variable remuneration component.
 
• You will receive various additional benefits during your stay abroad that will depend on your country of assignment.
         

About us

Your professional and personal development is important to us. At GIZ, you will be offered global work opportunities and an atmosphere that is characterised by diversity, respect and genuine equal opportunities. Gender equality promotion is a matter of course for us. Our benefits are also impressive in terms of work-life balance and family friendliness. Flexible working hours that fit your life situation, comprehensive onboarding and internal health management are an integral part of our corporate culture, along with the opportunity to use childcare facilities and parent/child offices.

GIZ is a signatory of the Diversity Charter. Recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the company are important to us. All employees shall be valued - regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, social background, age or sexual orientation.

GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability, both in Germany and abroad. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.

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