Job-ID: V000045932
Location: Addis Abeba
Assignment period: 01/01/2022 - 08/31/2023
Field: Social Sectors
Type of employment: full- or part-time
Application deadline: 11/14/2021
ABOUT US
Your professional and personal development is important to us. At GIZ, you will be offered global work opportunities and an atmosphere that is characterised by diversity, respect and genuine equal opportunities. Gender equality promotion is a matter of course for us. Our benefits are also impressive in terms of work-life balance and family friendliness. Flexible working hours that fit your life situation are an integral part of our corporate culture.
GIZ is a signatory of the Diversity Charter. Recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the company are important to us. All employees shall be valued - regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.
GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability, both in Germany and abroad. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.
CONTACT
Recruitment and Follow-on assignments Client Portal
+49 6196/79-3200
kundenportal-rueckfragen@giz.de
Our model for success is a better life for everyone and purposeful tasks for our employees. For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as a company of the German Federal Government, has been supporting the implementation of development policy goals worldwide. Together with partner organisations in more than 130 countries, we are involved in a diverse range of projects. If you want to make a difference in the world and develop yourself in the process, you've come to the right place.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Expanding vaccine production capacity worldwide is essential for global pandemic prevention and control and equal vaccine distribution. Thus, during the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine production on the African continent has become the top issue in global public health.
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is committed to supporting local vaccine manufacturing in Africa. This includes engagement at global, regional and country level (e.g. South Africa, Ghana). The program BACKUP Health has been commissioned to contribute to improving respective framework conditions. Building on the results of the African Union Local Vaccine Manufacturing Summit 2021 and acknowledging the leadership of the AU and the critical role of its institutions, the program engages with the newly formed Partnership for African Vaccine Manufacturing in Africa (PAVM) at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, which is in a unique position to drive the vaccine production agenda. Further key partners are the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization Initiative as the designated African Medicines Agency, the World Health Organization, other UN organisations, the Medicines Patent Pool Foundation, academia and private sector.
The position will be based in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, the siege of the AU. It is located in the GIZ Portfolio with the AU. The position will be embedded in the Africa CDC, Secretariat of the Partnership for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM).
YOUR TASKS
1. Provide technical/policy advice to the Partnership for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM), contribute to the work of the PAVM Secretariat and Task Force;
2. Advise on strategy development and technical/implementation issues, support to fund mobilization
3. Support and advise selected technical committees/workstreams and provide substantial inputs to workstream planning, identification of synergies with other areas situational analyses, option assessments and solution appraisals, development of recommendations, support to workstream decision making and strategy setting
4. Advise on and support specific design and policy/strategy setting activities in collaboration with the workstream owners
5. Support drafting key documents
6. Support the development and implementation of detailed and robust work plans for workstream activities with performance, key milestones, and progress monitoring and identification of synergies with other area
7. Advise on project management, e.g. secretariat meeting preparation, facilitation, and follow-up
8. Travel within Africa and to other countries, as required and possible.
9. Liaise regularly with the BACKUP team based elsewhere and other giz programs, contribute to requests from BMZ, internal knowledge management and to other tasks and events
10. Contribute to BACKUP reporting, presentations, articles, case studies and other documentation, Monitoring and Evaluation
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YOUR PROFILE
1. University degree in Medicine/Pharmacy/Biology/Biotechnology/Health Sciences or health economics
2. Additional certified degree in Public Health/Control of Infectious Diseases or Vaccinology/Regulation of Pharmaceuticals or similar
3. Excellent knowledge of the regulatory and vaccine production environment and African Public Health systems
4. Intercultural sensitivity, strong communication and cooperation competencies and written/verbal/presentation skills; experience in dealing with challenging situations regarding uncertainty
5. Several years of relevant professional experience, preferably gained abroad in technical cooperation/ consultancy and with lower-middle income countries
6. Experience with health systems strengthening/multi stakeholder cooperation and management
7. Several years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry/vaccine production/pharmaceutical regulation
8. Fluency (written and spoken) in English
LOCATION INFORMATION
1. We are pleased to offer you a first impression on topics such as climate, services and health care in Ethiopia.
2. The GIZ offers an additional benefits package for deployments in fragile security situations.
3. The security situation is critically tense. It requires continuous monitoring and special security risk mitigation measures for GIZ staff. GIZ staff must adhere to security measures at all times. Please also check the county-specific information provided by the German Federal Foreign Office. GIZ runs a professional security risk management system in the field of deployment. The freedom of movement is severely restricted. It is not possible for life partners and family members to move with you to the country of deployment.
NOTES
This job is suited to a full or a part-time position.
The willingness for frequent business trips is required.
For this assignment a personnel cooperation with African Union is intended.
We are happy to help accompanying partners discuss questions about benefits, residence permits and how to find your own job locally - feel free to get in touch with us during your application phase at map@giz.de.
A prerequisite for the conclusion of the agreement is the lifting of the restrictions currently in force in the company on the possibilities for travel and business trips in order to contain the worldwide spread of the Covid-19 virus.
The willingness to work reciprocally abroad and in Germany is required.
Please understand, that we can only accept and process 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.
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