• Overall responsibility for the advisory services provided by the contractor
• Provide process consulting for the overall implementation of outputs and the steering of interventions in work packages 1 and 2;
• Provide technical advice to partners during the inception phase and review missions with a particular focus on public sector reforms and ideally on digitalization processes;
• Facilitate the analysis and needs assessment with partners for the development of the operational plan including milestones;
• Identify, define and develop specific assignments for short-term experts (individual or in a team with combined competences) in the given budget for the implementation of work package 1 and 2;
• Steer and support short-term experts during the implementation process of assignments;
• Reflect the volatile and fragile context and its implications with the national project advisor and short-term experts onto the implementation process and the operational plan;
• Quality assurance of all deliverables provided by short-term experts and reflect on sequences of activities with regard to ownership of partners and sustainability;
• Review all contributions to the project monitoring and achievement of indicators and reporting in line with given deadlines;
• Provide presentations on the assignment to counterparts, stakeholders and development partners, as part of missions to Pakistan;
• Coordinate with other development partners in the sector when needed;
• Ensure the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project on local level, in particular through synergies and innovation potentials with other output areas;
• Take cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, LNOB, do no harm, gender);
• Responsibility for financial management in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ.
Qualifications:
Qualifications: University master’s degree (or equivalent) in political science, economics, public administration or public management.
Languages: Knowledge of English at level C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in change processes in the public sector
Specific professional experience: 5 years of professional experience in digital reform processes in the public sector
Leadership/management experience: 7 years of professional experience as team leader in international contexts
Regional experience: 5 years of work experience in South Asia
Development cooperation (DC) experience: 5 years of experience working in international development cooperation projects.
Other information:
Part time: 230 days for the duration of the project / 120 home-based
