GIZ is hiring a Project Manager “Health Care” in Corporate Sustainability and International Cooperation
GIZ is hiring a Project Manager “Health Care” in Corporate Sustainability and International Cooperation
Deadline : 09 February 2024
Location : Eschborn
Brief Background
For more than 50 years, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), as a company of the German Federal Government, has been supporting the implementation of development policy goals worldwide. Together with partner organisations in 120 countries, GIZ is involved in a diverse range of projects. If you want to make a difference in the world and develop yourself in the process, you’ve come to the right place.
Brief Information about the Programme
GIZ Private Sector Clients team works at the dynamic interface between the private sector and international cooperation. GIZ support companies in the process of implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) worldwide with a focus on Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In doing so, GIZ scale international cooperation solutions that have proven successful or test innovative approaches that are familiar to us in local contexts. GIZ offers companies individual advice, from the idea to the conception, and project management up to the proof of measurable results and effects. GIZ portfolio includes projects in the agricultural, mining, forestry, education, and healthcare sectors, as well as waste management with a growing focus on circular economy approaches. GIZ clients come from the food, retail, automotive, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.
Duties and Responsibilities
Your tasks will focus on the conception, acquisition and implementation of projects for large, multi-national companies in the healthcare industry to implement their sustainability strategies and contribute to the sustainable development goals. In close exchange with clients and the respective specialist departments within GIZ, you will develop tailor-made proposals with a high impact orientation.
In the context of business development, you independently establish relevant contacts to current and potential clients and further develop those in a result-oriented manner. You are in continuous exchange with GIZ project and program managers relevant to the private sector and identify opportunities for cooperation.
Together with the project teams on site, you take on the management of projects with terms of up to 3 years and are responsible for contractual project execution. During the project implementation you ensure the success of the project through professional management as well as quality assurance of content and commercial aspects.
Required Qualifications, Skills and Experiences
- You have at least 4 years of project experience in the field of sustainability and in cooperation with large private sector companies.
- In this context, you worked either as a consultant (m/f/d) in an international environment, implementing sustainability projects for large private sector clients from the healthcare industry, or you worked in a strategic position in the implementation of CSR-goals in a large, multi-national corporation, operating in the healthcare sector.
- You successfully obtained a Master’s level university degree with a focus on a relevant topic.
- You have experience in the conception and implementation of complex international projects with actors from the healthcare industry, politics, and civil society.
- You are characterized by high analytical skills. You are an excellent communicator.
- You are a team player.
- You have a high intrinsic motivation for sustainability and international cooperation.
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit and recognize opportunities and design options.
- You are implementation and problem-solving oriented.
- You have experience abroad in a developing or emerging country; experience especially in African countries is an advantage; you are open to business trips to developing countries.
- You have an established, relevant network and a high level of expertise in relationship management.
- Experience in coordinating international teams is an advantage.
- You have business fluent language skills in English and German, knowledge of French will be considered as an asset.
