Advisor on Professional Competency Development

About the Position

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Ukraine is seeking a qualified professional for the project ReBuild Green Ukraine with the Energy Efficiency Fund within the Energy and Climate Cluster to fill the position of the Advisor on Professional Competency Development (full-time, Kyiv).

Responsibilities

• Implementation Tasks:

  • Conducts competency and training needs assessments for project managers.
  • Develops competency frameworks, occupational standards, professional profiles, and market-oriented business pathways.
  • Coordinates the development and revision of competency-based curricula, training materials, and assessment methodologies.
  • Supports the establishment and implementation of institutionalisation procedures for project managers.
  • Designs and implements capacity development measures, including Training-of-Trainers (ToT) programmes for training institutions and experts.
  • Develops quality assurance procedures, monitoring systems, and evaluation mechanisms to ensure the effectiveness of training delivery.
  • Assesses institutional and regulatory conditions to support the professionalisation and sectoral recognition of the project manager profession.
  • Establishes and maintains cooperation between government institutions, the Energy Efficiency Fund, training providers, beneficiary associations, and other relevant stakeholders.

• General Obligations:

  • Familiar with GIZ planning, implementation, and reporting procedures and their changes.
  • Familiar with other project components and GIZ-assisted measures, concepts, and status of implementation and knows the corresponding experts and staff.
  • Represents the interest of the GIZ-assisted measure and always acts on its behalf.
  • Carries out important tasks for the project, even if these are not explicitly cited in the job description.

• Other Duties / Additional Tasks:

  • Performs other professional tasks relevant to the successful implementation of the work package, as assigned by the Project Director.
  • Organises workshops, expert consultations, stakeholder dialogues, and other knowledge-sharing events.
  • Monitors implementation progress, evaluates training outcomes, and recommends improvements.
  • Prepares technical reports, policy briefs, concept notes, and recommendations for project management and project partners.
  • Supports drafting of various reports at the request of the project team for different Projects of the Ukraine Energy and Climate Portfolio i.e. the EU Delegation or IKI Interface project.

Requirements

• Qualifications:
  • Advanced degree in Education, TVET, Adult Learning, Human Resource Development, or related field.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in skills development, professional training, certification systems, or TVET.
  • Experience in curriculum development and competency-based learning.
  • Experience working with ministries, training institutions, and professional associations.
  • High proficiency in written and spoken English and Ukrainian.
  • Ability to translate competency needs into training solutions.
  • Strong analytical, drafting, and reporting skills.
  • Good working knowledge of ITC technologies and computer applications (e.g., MS Office).
  • Keen interest in the work of the international technical assistance organizations in Ukraine.
  • Basic understanding of technical assistance specifics in a local context in Ukraine.
  • Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
  • Basic managing competencies and multitasking skills in agile team settings.
  • Willingness to travel within Ukraine and internationally.
  • Prioritizes support for the benefit of the team as well as the overall project success.
  • Consistently approaches work proactively with energy, creative, positive, and constructive attitude.
  • Ability to prioritize tasks independently with possible time constraints and workload.
  • Capacity to collect, process, and analyze complex data and information and share these.
  • Willingness to perform within an agile team environment.
  • Strong self-organization skills and goal orientation combined with a high level of frustration tolerance.
  • Willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed.
  • Customer- and service-oriented attitude.

We Offer

• Official employment, salary fixed in EUR, performance-related bonuses, and 13th salary.
• Medical insurance, 29 vacation days annually.
• Language classes, hard and soft skills trainings.
• Individual and group psychological support.
• Possible flexible and remote work (depending on project’s needs up to 10 days a month within Ukrainian border).
• Meaningful and valuable work, international environment.

Employment Conditions

• Full-time position with a 40-hour working week.
• Place of assignment is Kyiv.
• Starting as soon as possible.
• The contract duration will be 12 months with the possibility of prolongation.

GIZ is an equal opportunity employer and offers an attractive and challenging working environment with opportunities for skill enhancement.

Application

We are looking forward to receiving your application in English, comprising your CV and a Cover letter explaining your motivation to apply for the job to @email until Monday, COB August 17, 2026. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the next stages of the recruitment process.

Candidates are requested to submit their documents with the following title:

• Surname Name_CV
• Surname Name_Cover letter

By sending the application you give the consent for the personal data processing for recruitment processes solely according to GIZ data privacy regulations. You can familiarize yourself with these regulations by the link Data protection | GIZ.