Development Worker

About the Position

As a Development Worker in GIZ’s Development Service, you will help build a tolerant and open-minded society while working directly for our partner organizations.

Responsibilities

As a development worker, you will be involved in development policy issues, gain new insights, and help build a tolerant and open-minded society. You will:

• Use your specialist expertise and your ‘outsider’s view’ to support our partners in devising innovative solutions and tackling barriers to development.
• Work directly with partner organizations, often outside central locations in a country, to illustrate how solutions developed jointly with the partner are likely to be received.
• Promote ongoing development in our partner countries and help to improve the living conditions of people locally.

Requirements

To meet the requirements for a development worker post abroad, you must:

• Be a citizen of Germany or another European Union member state.
• Have an appropriate vocational qualification for a role abroad, gained either through formal vocational training in a craft or trade or in a technical area or through academic training.
• Have at least two years’ relevant work experience, including an instructor’s licence in the case of vocational training.
• Have good foreign language skills and/or be willing to expand existing skills and acquire new ones.
• Have good social skills and be open to different cultures, sensitive to intercultural, gender, and conflict-related issues, and willing to live and work in a new and unfamiliar environment.
• Be flexible and resilient and keen to gain valuable experience that will benefit your future professional development.
• Have a desire to use your skills in an advisory, planning, or management role.

We Offer

GIZ offers a comprehensive and attractive package of benefits based on the German Development Workers Act. These include:

• A living allowance and other cash benefits.
• Employment benefits (such as insurance cover).
• Other benefits such as the organization of outward and return travel, including for any family members who may be accompanying you.
• Specific preparation for your assignment both in Germany and on arrival abroad. Your family may also take part in some preparation seminars.
• Various forms of support following your assignment and return.

About the Company

GIZ is committed to global sustainability and improving living conditions in partner countries. Your role will involve working on various development policy issues, including:

• Peacebuilding and crisis prevention
• Rural development and agriculture, food security
• Vocational education and training and the labour market
• Democracy, rule of law, gender
• Forests and biodiversity
• Decentralisation, urban and regional development
• Private sector development, sustainable economic development
• Health, family planning, HIV/AIDS
• Education and youth
• Drinking water, water management, wastewater/waste disposal
• Energy
• Environmental policy, conservation, and sustainable management of natural resources

Interested?

Are you interested in being a development worker abroad? Then we look forward to receiving your application.