Vacancy Announcement #082/2024
ICT and Digitalisation Advisor
Digital Transformation Center
Contract Duration: December 31, 2025
Application deadline: 14/07/2024
Duty station: Addis Ababa
Digital Transformation in Ethiopia
The “Digital Transformation in Ethiopia” project is an innovative initiative designed to redefine GIZ Ethiopia’s approach to leveraging digital technology across key sectors of engagement. This project aims to contribute to sustainable development and mitigate the digital divide. Focused on strategic coordination and capacity building, it creates a nexus for enhancing synergies among various bilateral, regional, and global digital development interventions, optimizing the impact of joint efforts with partners. Within this framework, the digital transformation team will provide expert advice to projects and partners on the design and execution of digital transformation activities and components.
About the GovStack Initiative
Citizen services and public administration processes often generate considerable administrative workload for citizens and governments alike, leading to inefficiency, inadequacy, and user-unfriendliness. Technical and bureaucratic silos further complicate coordination, resulting in fragmented solutions that cannot be scaled. The digitalization of administrative processes promises smoother operations and greater efficiency in the structures of public institutions. However, a lack of capacity and resources often hinders the development, implementation, and maintenance of digital government services.
The GovStack Initiative seeks to address these challenges by providing national governments access to a platform encompassing a catalog of solutions for digital government services. This project aims to build the know-how of selected partner countries, including Ethiopia, to develop scalable digital government services, along with the necessary accompanying institutional processes and capacities. One focus of the initiative is the development of crucial ICT building blocks that enable the setup of digital government services. These building blocks, such as digital payments, online registers, or messaging services, provide basic functions that can be used in multiple software applications and systems, forming the baseline for the solution catalog of the model platform.
Role Description for the Digital Government Advisor
As Digital Government Advisor, you will play an active role in driving forward the GovStack initiative, aligning it with the strategic objectives of our Ethiopian partners and the needs of our beneficiaries. You support selected digital transformation initiatives by enhancing the capabilities of stakeholders involved in various development projects. This role is tasked with facilitating the design, coordination, and execution of training and capacity development programs aimed at improving technical, methodological, and operational skills among partner organizations for the implementation of e-services and digital public infrastructure.
Responsibilities and Duties
Technical Advice for Implementation of Project Activities:
Partnerships, Network Management & Communication:
Initiate and foster partnerships with government, private sector, academia, and civil society actors in Ethiopia for the project.
Additional competencies
Application procedure:
Interested and qualified candidates shall submit their motivation letter along with their recent CV via hreth@giz.de
Please make sure you mention the vacancy number and position title ICT and Digitalization Advisor # 082/2024 in the subject line of your email application. Applications without vacancy numbers in subject lines might be disqualified.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Please refer to our brochure to learn more about GIZ’s attractive benefits package.
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