Climate Change Advisor

GIZ- External Vacancy Announcement #015/2025

Contract Duration:        30/08/2025 
Application Deadline:   11/02/2025
Required Candidates:   1

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 data base) 
• Contributions to Monitoring briefs (summary of status and monitoring data for wider internal usage; development of a template) 
• Contributions to development of dashboards 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 

Additional Responsibility

• Organizing and updating federal and regional partners list with full information including addresses. 
• Contributing to project’s event organization 
• Actively contributing for internal communication channels or activities aiming to improve information exchange. 
• Distributing key information and materials to programme/project staff 
• Taking Minutes of meetings if necessary 

Qualifications

Academic background: University degree (Bachelors, or Masters) in Social Studies, Cultural Studies, Development Studies, Rural Development or relevant fields.

Graduated within the last six months. 

Knowledge in:

• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel 
• Advanced knowledge of MS Power BI 
• Knowledge in application of online survey tools, e.g. KoboToolbox, is appreciated
• Knowledge of Afar Oromo (Speaking, writing and reading) is advantageous. Frequent travel to the Oromia regions. 

Required additional abilities. 

• Ability and openness to learn how to apply defined tools independently
• interest in M and E tasks 
• High degree of initiative 
• Solution-oriented way of working
• Team skills

How To Apply

Application procedure:

Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their motivation letter along with 
their non-returnable recent CV via Email: hreth@giz.de

Note:

Please make sure you mention your full name, the vacancy number and position title ‘Your Full Name _Intern-Monitoring and Evaluation #015/2025’ in the subject line of your email application.

Due to large number of applications, we categorize applications with the vacancy numbers.

Applications without vacancy number, position title and applicant’s name in subject lines might not be categorized in the appropriate folder and could be disqualified.

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

We encourage persons with disabilities to apply for the position. In case of equal qualification, persons with disabilities will be given preference.

Applications from qualified women are encouraged.

“Please refer to our brochure to learn more about GIZ’s attractive benefit package.”