Election Process Advisor

Election Process Advisor

GIZ- Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #039/2024

Support to Good Governance

Contract end date : 30.04.2026

The Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a German public-benefit federal enterprise. GIZ works worldwide in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas. We work to shape a future worth living in over 120 countries around the world.

The "Programme to Support Good Governance in Ethiopia" aims to strengthen state and civil society frameworks to support the transformation into a democratic and inclusive constitutional state. The programme advises central governmental and non-governmental actors who hold key positions in the transformation process of the Ethiopian governance system.

In one of the components, the programme supports the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) to strengthen its networks with other election boards. Furthermore, the programme focuses on capacity building of the Ethiopian Civil Society Organizations for Election (CECOE). CECOE is a civil society network, whose CSO members were certified by NEBE in the context of the 2022 national elections and which fulfils important functions in the field of political education of the population on democratic elections. CECOE has an active role in election observations. As a sector specialist, you will be responsible for providing support to NEBE and CECOE to strengthen free and fair elections.

Please note that the job title will be changed to Advisor Rule of Law, Democracy, Good Governance during the recruitment process.

• Provide technical and organizational advice to CECOE on the selection and introduction of a digital tool to protect the integrity of elections and its integration into the existing NEBE/CECOE training programme for election observation.
• Provide technical assistance to CECOE and NEBE with regard to the the implementation of agreed activities in the fields of voter education, civic education., election observation and the digitalization of instruments.
• provide advice on the design and implementation of regional networking activities (e. g. peer-to-peer consultation, specialized conferences of regional election commissions, regional study tour) with NEBE
• support the Supreme Court on the development of a training module for judges (concept, learning objectives, methodology, training materials, train of trainers, evaluation tools) dealing with freedom of expression and freedom of assembly cases in their courts.
• participate in feeding the programmes M&E System with relevant data, observations, and analysis.
• identify potentials of cooperation and synergies with other German and international cooperation projects and support the implementation of the cooperation
• Other tasks as required

Qualifications

• Completed university studies in the field of political science, sociology, law or similar field of social science

• Profound knowledge of the meaning of free and fair elections in the transformation process towards inclusive democratization

Professional experience

• Several years of professional experience in the thematic areas of free and fair elections and civic and voter education

• Experience with the development of training materials for public institutions

• Experience in the implementation and monitoring of training measures for members of CSOs and public servants

• Working experience in the context of Technical Cooperation projects

• Confident with the digitalization of work processes in CSOs and the usage of digital tools preferably in the context of the implementation of elections.

Other knowledge, additional competencies

• Strong commitment, team spirit, reliability, conflict sensitivity, gender competence and intercultural competence

• Ability to think and act strategically, conceptually, and analytically

• Strong cooperation, communication and advisory skills, political sensitivity, and networking ability
• Fluent in English and Amharic, both oral and in writing