Team Leader (with experience in Cali)
About the job
Regions Initiative – Promoting the economic and health participation of particularly vulnerable refugees and migrants, as well as host communities in Colombia.
What you will do
- Overall responsibility for the contractor’s advisory work packages.
- Ensuring coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other project activities at local and national levels.
- Design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of capacity development measures for local counterparts.
- Responsibility for integrating cross-cutting issues (e.g. gender equality).
- Team leadership, including identifying the need for short-term missions within budget constraints, as well as planning and supervising missions and advising experts.
- Ensuring results-based monitoring and reporting to the contracting authority.
- Ensuring knowledge management of implemented activities.
- Preparation and submission of regular and timely reports.
- Responsibility for financial planning and monitoring the use of funds, in coordination with the GIZ commission manager.
- Oversight of the preparation, implementation, and administration of local subsidies and procurement processes.
- Supporting the commission manager in updating and/or adapting project design, conducting evaluations, and preparing follow-up phases.
- Ensuring coordination with other donors and the German Embassy.
- Management and coordination of local grants. Within the framework of local subsidies, GIZ supports and advises the funding recipient in implementing agreed measures in line with contractual requirements.
Your qualifications
• University degree (Master’s or equivalent – diploma / bachelor’s / master’s) in Economics, Social Sciences, Applied Economics, Public Management, or Project Management.
• Spanish language proficiency at C1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
• 10 years of professional experience in the field of inclusion of migrants and vulnerable populations (e.g. victims, displaced persons, women, ethnic groups, and other vulnerable civil society groups).
• 5 years of experience collaborating with public and private sector stakeholders.
• 7 years of professional experience in promoting employment or self-employment for migrants and vulnerable populations.
• 5 years of experience in capacity development for migrants and vulnerable populations.
• 5 years of management experience within projects, companies, or other organizations, including line management responsibility for at least 3 staff members.
• 5 years of professional experience in Valle del Cauca.
• 4 years of experience in development cooperation projects.
• Experience in the following areas:
• 3 years of professional experience with instruments for establishing public-private partnerships (PPPs) or integrated development partnerships.
• 3 years of professional experience in implementing projects with a gender perspective.
Offer details
Last modified
5 hours 19 minutes
Languages
Spanish
Application deadline
Duration
July 2026 - July 2028
The project
Client
GIZ
Sector
Empowering Communities
Governance
Countries
Colombia
Start & Duration
July 2026 - July 2028