Team Leader - Digital Transformation for Sustainable Economic Development
Country:
Kenya
Position:
Team Leader - Digital Transformation for Sustainable Economic Development
Department:
Governance and Economic Development
Status:
PQ
Published:
Deadline:
Name of project:
Digital Transformation for Sustainable Economic Development – Digital Transformation Center Kenya
Task description:
Overall responsibility for the work packages of the contractor, including the fulfilment of indicators linked to the activities and outputs under the contractor’s scope of work
Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level
Overall responsibility for all activities related to the development and piloting of digital and entrepreneurial skills trainings through intermediaries of the digital and innovation ecosystem
Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners
Taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality)
Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting local and international experts
Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out
Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines
Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ
Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase
Qualifications:
Education/training: Master’s degree business, economics, innovation management• Languages: English C1 (Common EU Framework of Reference for Languages)
General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in digital innovation, entrepreneurship support and skills development
Specific professional experience: 5 years of professional experience in digital and entrepreneurial skills development, experience working with entrepreneurship sup-port organisations (ESOs) and other intermediaries of the digital ecosystem
Leadership/management experience: 3 years of management/leadership experience as project team leader or manager in a company managing large-scale projects
Regional experience: 3 years of working experience in the East African Community (EAC region) (5 out of 10 Points), of which 1 year in Kenya (country) (5 out of 10 Points)
Development cooperation (DC) experience: 2 years of experience working on DC projects
Other: 2 years of experience in financial management with substantial local subsidies
