Team Lead & Lead Trainer NGO Job Landesa

Team Lead & Lead Trainer NGO Job

Essential Job Functions

• Responsible for the development and implementation of the overall capacity development program.
• Overall responsibility for the advisory packages of the contractor.
• Specific responsibility to conceptualize and deliver trainings under work packages 1 and 2.
• Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at the local and national level.
• Design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners in the area of women’s empowerment in sustainable land resources management in rural areas.
• Responsibility for taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (for example, gender equality)
• Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and managing the assignments, and supporting experts.
• Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out.
• Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines.
• Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the commission manager at GIZ.
• Supporting the commission manager in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations, and in preparing a follow-on phase.

Qualifications

• Education/training: University degree (e.g. ‘master’s or German Diplom’) in International Development Studies, Rural Development, or Gender Studies.
• Language:
• English language skills, C1-level in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL).
• French language skills, C1-level in the CEFRL.
• General professional experience: 9 years of professional experience in the development and implementation of capacity development programs in relation to women’s empowerment.
• Specific professional experience: within the past 10 years, 3 years of professional experience in managing multi-stakeholder processes in the field of gender equality.
• Leadership/management experience: within the last 7 years, 3 years of management experience in projects, companies, or other organizations with disciplinary leadership responsibility for 5 people.
• International professional experience outside the country/region of assignment: Within the last 10 years, 2 years of international professional experience outside Africa.
• Professional experience in the country/region of assignment: within the last 10 years, 2 years of professional experience in Eastern and Western Africa (in accordance with UN DESA Statistics Division), of which 1 year either in Kenya or 1 year in Mali or Madagascar.
• Experience in the field of development cooperation: within the past 10 years, 5 years of experience in development cooperation projects.

Soft Skills

• A deep commitment to the mission of a better, safer future for the world’s poorest people through secure access to land.
• Strong problem-solving.
• Strong oral presentation skills and an ability to think on one’s feet when defending policy recommendations.
• Familiarity with concepts that can be applied to rural development.
• Ability to develop concrete work plans and manage elements so that work is performed according to agreed-upon budgets and plans.
• Ability to manage documents and correspondence, track, and report on project labor, and carry out other administrative tasks efficiently, routinely, and in conformance with Landesa standards and procedures.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a range of people at all levels, including those from host country governmental and non-governmental organizations, and other counterparts, clients, and funders.
• Ability to demonstrate cross-cultural sensitivity, tact, and poise.
• Ability to lead and work collaboratively as a member of teams, regardless of role within the team, through consensus building, communication, and leadership.
• Ability to make and use distinctions as to types, frequency, tenor, and levels of communication, depending upon the circumstances and audience.
• Legal right to work in the country of assignment.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and CV to consultants@landesa.org by July 19, 2025. Please include “Expert #1 – Team Lead & Lead Trainer” in the email subject line. CVs without cover letters will not be considered. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.