What kind of job opportunities does GOPA offer?

Currently GOPA implements more than 140 projects around the globe, staffed by fixed term experts as well as permanent GOPA personnel. Backstopping is delivered by the company’s head office in Bad Homburg, which has a staff complement of around 80. When vacancies occur in on-going projects or at head office, these are advertised.

GOPA also competes for new projects by responding to prequalification notices and tenders issued by technical cooperation organisations such as EDF, GTZ, IBRD, KfW, MCC and others. Opportunities arising from such procedures are frequently advertised and constitute the bulk of job notices posted on our website.

Information contained in a job opportunity notice

Notices always indicate the status of a position or project.

• General call for applications
  We are seeking to widen our database in a given technical area or are opening a new field of activity for which we wish recruit expertise
• Expression of interest/Prequalification
  We have been called upon to express our interest for a project or have been asked to qualify for a shortlist and already, at this stage, wish to identify and commit expertise
• Tender
  GOPA has been short-listed and called upon to submit a proposal. We are seeking expertise for the tender to be submitted.
• Implementation
  GOPA is implementing the project indicated in the notice and is advertising a vacancy.

More information needed to make a decision?

We always endeavour to provide you with as much information as possible. Whenever terms of reference are available, these are made available through a hyperlink, together with any other information that might be of interest to prospective candidates. For more information you can also contact the person indicated in the notice.

When and how to contact GOPA

If you are interested in a job opportunity and you are already registered on our database, please click on the e-mail address provided to get in touch with the contact person indicated, submitting an up-dated CV.

If you are not a registered expert and wish to respond to a specific notice, then click on the e-mail address provided there and send your CV to the contact indicated in the notice.

If you are seeking employment abroad and wish to apply for registration on our database, you are most welcome to contact us. In this case, please write to Wolfgang Scharm, Head of Business Development Support, using the adress jobs@gopa.de.

When applying for a position vacant at our head office or would like to receive information about employment opportunities there, please address yourself to Annika Moersdorf, Human Resources Manager, using the adress personnel@gopa.de.

What CV to submit

All language versions or CV formats are accepted. If you have different language versions or donor formats for your CV, we would welcome to receive all. If you need a template to put together your CV, then download our standard CV format.

Additional Documentation

When submitting your CV, please also provide us with electronic copies of your academic qualifications as well as employers' certificates in respect of past work experience.

GOPA's expert database

GOPA maintains a customised database that stores key information on registered experts (name, d.o.b, nationality, academic qualifications, language, donor and country experience, etc.) and includes all available CVs, supporting documents and correspondence.

Advanced search tools allow staff to make detailed searches for available expertise.

The database is common to GOPA and its sister companies AFC Consultants International, EPOS Health Management, GOPA-Cartermill and RODECO. Thus, experts registered with any one of the GOPA Group companies benefit from becoming available for job opportunities in a wider group of consulting firms that all work in the field of development cooperation.