Advisor Electronic Waste (Battery Service Line)
GIZ-Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #048/2021
Energising Development (EnDev) Ethiopia
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.
In Ethiopia, GIZ has been working for more than 40 years in bilateral cooperation on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and on the commission of the Ethiopian Government and other international donors.
Energising Development Ethiopia (EnDev) Ethiopia (being implemented by GIZ) supports a sustainable supply of energy services to lower-income households, social institutions and small to medium sized enterprises with a focus on rural areas. EnDev is a multi-donor and multi-implementer energy access partnership. It is currently financed by six donor countries – the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Sweden. Being part of the global programme, EnDev Ethiopia receives additional co-funding from Ireland, the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare and the European Union.
Duration of contract: : Up to December 31,2022 (with possibility of extension)
Responsibilities:
Tasks:
Within the framework of the responsibilities of the position, he/she fulfills the following tasks:
Technical implementation processes
A. Analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats related to current and technical and technological setup of private-sector handlers of lead-acid batteries.
B. Definition of technical advisory needs of private-sector actors and agrees with these on an advisory capacity development support plan.
C. Organizing and coordinating trainings in environmentally sound LAB management.
D. Advisory on technical and technological improvement of LAB-handling entities (collectors, transporters, recyclers).
E. Develop tailor-made technical and technological concepts for upgrading private sector facilities, including Bills of Quantities, material costs, local availability assessment for material.
A. Analysis of financing and co-financing options for upgrading LAB handling facilities.
B. Assess with private and public-sector entities and potential donors and development partners their potential to combine forces.
C. Develop together with the financial systems development component of EnDev (co-) financing concepts and conducts their piloting and/or roll-out.
A. Organizing and coordinating trainings in environmentally sound LAB management for universities and research institutions.
B. Organize a research competition for appropriate, locally producible/available solutions for environmentally sound LAB management.
C. Assess research & development results and pilot test cases in cooperation with public and private sector.
Cooperation and coordination processes:
Monitoring, reporting and knowledge management
General Duties
Required qualifications, professional experience and additional competencies
Professional experience
Other knowledge and additional competencies