GIZ South Africa, Lesotho & eSwatini Internships 2024

BACKGROUND

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)GmbH is a German international organisation that advances sustainable development through four broad thematic areas: Energy and Environment, Employment Promotion, Economic Development, and Peace and Security. We are a state-owned enterprise operating in more than 120 countries worldwide, delivering business volume of approximately 3,7bio €.

The Country Office (CO) is in Pretoria Hatfield, where the position is located, covering South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini.

The opportunity to work with us offers regional procurement experience in a global organisation, supporting the work of our technical projects, partners, and beneficiaries. Our sustainable procurement organisation is constantly growing.

We seek a Procurement and Contracting Intern that will support our team in its strategic and operational tasks. Result and outcomes driven Procurement practitioners passionate about organisational transformation, sustainability, and digitalisation with leadership skills, are strongly encouraged to apply for the position “Intern - Procurement and Contracting”. Diverse applicants from all walks of life are welcomed.

The Procurement and Contracting Unit is looking for a highly motivated and talented Intern interested in Sustainable Public Procurement. The Procurement and Contracting Intern will work closely with the Head of Procurement and Contracting during a 6-month internship period to gain hands-on related experience essential for the success of their career. The intern will be responsible for the functional, organizational, and administrative support to the procurement function in accordance with the specific GIZ regulations and guidelines and coordinating processes effectively with colleagues in the Office, Projects, and Head Office. 

The opportunity is ideal for students who require an internship to graduate or for whom this would be their first internship/ working experience.

RESPONSIBILITIES - see full job description below

The Intern: Procurement and Contracting:

• Supports the data gathering for the Sustainable Procurement strategy implementation and integration across the Procurement Categories: Materials and Equipment, Logistics and Events, Service Contracts, Construction Contracts, and Financing Arrangements.
• Develops new and maintains ongoing information databases for the Unit such as Supplier Databases and Dashboards
• Utilises the information available with the CO and HQ to generate a comprehensive Spend Analysis
• Generates a Market Intelligence approach for the Unit and a sustainable methodology to ensuring continuous refresh
• Explores the expansion of existing digital tools and software to increased procurement category scope coverage
• Develops a Risk Register for Unit and establishes a procedure for regular review
• Supports the communication strategy for internal Sustainable Procurement activities and external Supplier Relationship Management.

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BACKGROUND

The Transparency, Integrity and Accountability Programme (TIP) in South Africa, which works with the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), is a new project, which builds on the experience of the GIZ Governance Support Programmes (GSP) of the last 10 years. It supports state and non-state actors to contribute towards the implementation of the National Anti-corruption Strategy (NACS) in a whole-of-government and societal manner. The TIP provides capacity development for anti-corruption actors in the state, civil society and the business sector.

The project supports:

• Active citizenry where citizens can contribute actively to activities and initiatives in favour transparency, integrity and accountability (Output 1);
• The strengthening of institutional capacity of collaborative mechanisms, particularly the National Anti-corruption Advisory Council to coordinate the implementation of the NACS (Output 2); and
• Multi-stakeholder partnerships to improve transparency, integrity and accountability (Output 3).

In addition to the whole-of-government and societal approach of the TIP, the programme actively pursues a human rights-based orientation including gender equality. The strategic reference points for the TIP are the NACS, the National Development Plan and the Medium-term Strategic Framework 2019-2024, Germany’s approaches to governance, democracy and anti-corruption as well as Agenda 2063 (African Union) and Sustainable Development Goals 16.5 and 16.6.

The TIP is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The programme is part of the newly established Peaceful and Inclusive Societies core cooperation topic of BMZ and the action field Good Governance. The TIP is co-financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

The Intern will work closely with all three Outputs of the Programme and contribute towards the overall objective and indicators of the Programme. The Intern will gain a general overview of the Programme and gain hands-on experience while you develop your skills towards the promotion of anti-corruption activities in the civil society, state and private sectors.

RESPONSIBILITIES - see full job description download below

The Intern is responsible for the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Support and collaborate with team members in the coordination and implementation of activities of the Programme;
• Support stakeholder coordination and engagement of the three Outputs;
• Support the implementation of communication and knowledge management activities,
• including the organisation of meetings, workshops, learning journeys and other means
• of retaining and sharing knowledge;
• Support general coordination and project management including operational planning
• and reporting; and
• Exercising all responsibilities according to GIZ’s corporate principles.