Expert (with experience in Bolivia): Team coordination and responsibility for public and private financial mechanisms (sustainable/green finance)

About the job

The objective of the GIZ SUAGRI Programme is: To improve the political, technical, and financial conditions for scaling up sustainable soil management and the restoration of biodiversity in the Altiplano region.

What you will do

• Overall responsibility for the contractor’s advisory work packages.
• Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other project activities at local and national level.
• Providing strategic and operational guidance to facilitate access for producers, producer organizations, and MSMEs to public and private financial mechanisms¹³ for soil restoration, resilient agricultural production, and the integrated management of bio-inputs.
• Design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity-development measures for local counterparts (e.g. MDPRyA, INIAF, SENASAG, VDAyDI, IPDSA, EMPODERAR, APROCAM, Agriconnect [World Bank Regional], Agriconecta [new World Bank credit operation], ProReCa, Agrosustentar, departmental governments and municipalities) and producer organizations (e.g. producer families, individual and associative entrepreneurs, social enterprises: ANAPQUI, CONAPQUIBOL, CECAOT, APQUISA, COPROQUIR; MSMEs, rural communities, AIOCs, cooperatives, etc.) in the following areas: Designation of Origin; Strategy and Action Plan for Land Restoration; access to and mobilization of public and private financial instruments for soil restoration and resilient agricultural production; development of business models; portfolio of credit applications; development of innovations for the production of bio-inputs from sustainable biomass sources; reintroduction and repopulation of native plant species of the Altiplano. Responsibility for the integration of cross-cutting issues (e.g. gender equality, interculturality, climate change, communication, monitoring and environment).
• Staff management and, in particular, identification of the need for short-term missions within the available budget, as well as planning and monitoring of missions and advisory services provided by experts.
• Ensuring results-based monitoring.
• Submission of reports on a regular and timely basis.
• Responsibility for monitoring the use of funds and financial planning, in coordination with the GIZ officer responsible for the commission.
• Support to the officer responsible for the commission in updating and/or adapting the project design, in evaluations, and in preparing a follow-on phase.
• In coordination with the officer responsible for the commission, ensuring contacts with other donors regarding Outputs 3 and 4.
• Strategic advisory services to local productive actors on financial education and access to green credit.
• Support to team coordination in personnel management, particularly in identifying the need for short-term expert assignments within the available budget.
• Planning and management of assignments and supervision of national and international specialist personnel.
• Planning and management of regional exchange programmes, for example with Ecuador, Colombia or Peru.
• Monitoring using Capacity WORKS.

Your qualifications

• University degree at Master’s level or German “Diplom” in Agricultural Engineering or Economics, with postgraduate studies in sustainable/green finance or rural credit
• Spanish language skills at C2 level (7 out of 10 points), English language skills at C1 level (3 out of 10 points) according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
• 10 years of professional experience in the agri-food systems sector (5 out of 10 points); Access to sustainable/green finance to strengthen agri-food systems (5 out of 10 points)
• 6 years of professional experience in private fundraising and the development of financial mechanisms (public/private) to strengthen value chains, with an emphasis on the Altiplano (5 out of 10 points); 24 months of experience in rural finance and agricultural credit within the last 3 years (5 out of 10 points)
• 5 years of management experience within projects, companies or other organizations, involving line-management responsibility for at least 5 people and annual budget responsibility of EUR 300,000
• 2 years of professional experience in an Andean region country outside Bolivia
• 8 years of professional experience in Bolivia
• 8 years of experience in development cooperation projects (5 out of 10 points); 2 years of experience in the application of Capacity WORKS (5 out of 10 points)

Offer details

Estimated start date (depending on contract award): 1/03/2027 Project duration: 32 months