Regional Coordinator East and Southern Africa (m/f/d) for the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a state owned organisation. We work worldwide in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. GIZ International Services (InS) is an integral division of GIZ. We offer the experience, the regional and technical know-how of GIZ in the global market and provide international clients with expertise in terms of economic and result-oriented services.We create prospects for people and with people. As GIZ has an international mandate, we offer a multicultural working environment. We are committed service providers and dedicated professionals, even under difficult circumstances. We take pride in enabling our employees to develop their professional and personal skills. There are plenty of reasons to join our motivated team – ranging from the diverse challenges you will face on a daily basis in one of our 130 partner countries, to the broad scope you will have for shaping your work.

The project

GIZ International Services is implementing „The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)”. AFR100 is a multi-actor-partnership of 30 African governments and numerous technical and financial partners. AFR100 is a country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of land in Africa into restoration by 2030. It aims to accelerate restoration to enhance food security, increase climate change resilience and mitigation, and combat rural poverty.

Objectives and Expected Outcomes for the Appointment of the Regional Coordinators

Each Regional Coordinator (East-Southern and Central-West) is expected to drive the AFR100 initiative towards the following outcomes:

• Engagement and participation of regional stakeholders: Increased ownership of the AFR100 agenda by forest country governments at all levels, the private sector, and forestry country civil society organizations.
• Accelerated actions towards the scale-up of restoration activities: Create opportunities to accelerate action for the scale-up of restoration activities, fostering public and private investments and private sector and civil society activities.
• Connectivity and communication of partners’ initiatives: Improved transparency on the initiatives of AFR100 Partners in the region, facilitating action-focused collaboration and learning opportunities within the region.

Your tasks

Under the guidance of the AFR100 Secretariat, the hosting organization (GIZ) and in coordination with the AFR100 Management Team and the respective Regional Committees, each AFR100 Regional Coordinator will have the following responsibilities:

• Build new partnerships and coordinate existing AFR100 partnerships on a national and regional level to strengthen collaboration for scaled-up Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) interventions, including mobilizing the private sector and investors (both local and international).
• Support partner countries in the development and execution of Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) National Strategies (implementation strategy to achieve country targets) and to establish a legal framework/model for investment to diversify sources of funding.
• Strengthen capacities of governmental AFR100 focal points on FLR, resource mobilization, monitoring, reporting, and other relevant topics through the organisation of trainings, webinars, exchange visits, etc.
• Create a people-centered and inclusive engagement framework at the community level and with national governments in the region to ensure the effective participation of women and youth.
• Contribute to the AFR100 Knowledge Management and reporting mechanism to ensure the constant flow of information on lessons learnt, sound practices, and other important publications from the regions.
• Support the establishment and maintenance of an AFR100 monitoring system, at national and regional levels.
• Drive the agenda of Regional Committee meetings.

Your profile

• Preferably 5 years of experience working within programme management in a development context.
• Experience in forestry / agroforestry, agriculture and land use, natural resources management, international development is a plus.
• Previous experience in East and Southern Africa and West and Central Africa Demonstrated previous experience supervising teams and capacity building for organisations with which the programme works.
• Proven experience managing relationships in complex organisations with multiple stakeholders across government Experience working with and coordinating cross-cultural teams across several locations.
• Track record in successfully maintaining communication channels towards several partners Experience in managing multi-stakeholder initiatives with governments and private sector partners, preferably in the sustainable land use space, and working in cross-country settings.
• Excellent communications and people skills Fluent in English; other languages would be an asset.

Our benefits

We are a provider of international cooperation services for sustainable development and work to build a future worth living around the world. We support projects in over 130 countries to achieve goals sustainably together with our partners. Everyone has the same opportunities in our company, regardless of gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or physical disability. We recruit based on specialist expertise and social skills. Transparency and fair opportunities for career advancement are just as much a matter of course for us as gender not being a barrier to taking up a management position. Extensive check-ups and preventive measures (e.g. on appointment, before the outward journey, during the stay in a country of assignment, in an emergency) are provided to our staff and the family members accompanying them as a matter of course., We reward staff who achieve their agreed annual targets with a variable remuneration component., You will receive various additional benefits during your stay abroad that will depend on your country of assignment.

About us

Please understand that we can accept and process in principle only applications via our E-recruiting system. Following the confirmation of your successful application, kindly check your spam / junk mail folder on a regular basis, since some provider classify emails from our recruiting system as spam. GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability, both in Germany and abroad. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.

Please kindly note that this is a full-time position with a limited-term contract. The expected starting date is in December 2021 and the project is supposed to last until 31st of March 2022.
We invite interested candidates to apply until December 17th 2021 via the following link: giz3 (hr4you.org)