Project Assistant - CCPS Cluster

Reports to: Senior Finance Manager

Duration: Until 31 December 2027

BACKGROUND

The Centre for Cooperation with the Private Sector (CCPS) was established at the beginning of 2014 to coordinate the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) South Africa’s strategy for cooperation with the private sector. It is an umbrella unit responsible for implementing various regional or global programmes all with the aim to promote private sector cooperation. The CCPS programmes include:

  • Team Europe Initiative IYBA-SEED “Investing in Young Businesses in Africa - Supporting Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Development”, with a special emphasis on women and young people. This is a Co-financed project supported by the EU and BMZ.
  • The Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) which aims to create smart, sustainable solutions for economic development promoting micro- and small business development, enhancing skills and employability and supporting inclusive value chains. It seeks to create jobs and improve the employment situation, together with the recently commissioned started WE4D (Promoting female employment for Africa’s green transformation).
  • The Natural Resources Stewardship Programme (NatuReS) which promotes collective action of multiple stakeholders to protect and manage natural resources while safeguarding investments in key economic zones, creating and securing jobs, boosting awareness of natural resource stewardship to be embedded into key institutions so they can drive policy and practice.
  • The Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) Compliant Biotrade in Southern Africa (ABioSA) aims at creating a high-growth jobs-rich and innovative biotrade sector that complies with international and domestic ABS regulations. It contributes to the livelihoods of rural people and the productive use of South(ern) Africa’s plant biodiversity.
  • The BioInnovation Africa (BIA) - Equitable Benefit-sharing for the Conservation of Biodiversity in collaboration with ABioSA aims to strengthen European-African partnerships and Private Sector engagement for biodiversity-based innovations and products with equitable benefit-sharing for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

RESPONSIBILITIES - see full job description download below

The Project Assistant is required to ensure, in collaboration with their manager, that all commercial, organisational, and administrative tasks are dealt with correctly and on time in keeping with the given objectives and taking account of the legal, contractual and corporate-policy guidelines and procedures. In this context, they independently process specific themes, and takes responsibility for:

  • Bookkeeping and invoice checking
  • Procurement of goods and record keeping
  • Events and travel Management
  • Other organisational and administrative tasks.

The Project Assistant will maintain a good flow of information, activate all the requisite interfaces and ensure the streamlined administration of all procedures. They will work as part of the GIZ CCPS cluster team that includes WE4D, ABioSA, BIA, NatuReS, and other projects. The Project Assistant will also be expected to closely collaborate with other cluster colleagues.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Suitable candidates should apply by submitting:

  • A motivation letter (concisely 1 page) stating why they should be the preferred candidate, the value added they will bring to the CCPS Cluster and their basic salary expectation range.
  • This should be accompanied by a detailed CV and indicating their nationality.

Applications should be submitted to: recruit-pretoria@giz.de, with the email subject line “Application for Project Assistant - CCPS Cluster” for the attention of Head of Human Resource.

      Closing date for applications: 19 July 2024.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Applications without a motivation letter will not be considered!