Transboundary Use and Protection of Natural Resources in the SADC Region

To lead implementation of a tourism component for a running Southern African GIZ programme, we are looking for a full-time regional expert in the field of Southern African transboundary tourism development who will be based full-time in Gaborone, Botswana starting in April 2021 for a duration of 2 years with the following profile:

Tasks of the team leader

• Overall responsibility for the advisory package of the contractor;
• Providing advisory services to the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Tourism Coordination Unit (FANR TCU) and public and private stakeholders engaged in tourism development activities;
• Implementing the GIZ tourism support to SADC as the project’s principal advisor;
• Preparing regular reports;
• Coordinating stages of the project with key stakeholders and ensuring transparency for the partner;
• Responsibility for controlling the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with GIZ’s officer responsible for the commission;
• Identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, planning and steering the assignments, and supporting the local, regional and international short-term experts;
• Planning and supporting project-related studies and analyses;
• Supporting the FANR TCU in preparing follow-on measures;
• Responsibility for carrying out checks on the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ;
• Strategy, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of capacity development measures for local partners in the areas if tourism development and marketing;
• Personnel management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within the available budget, as well as planning and steering assignments and supporting local and international short-term experts;
• Ensuring results monitoring is conducted;
• Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines;
• Supporting the officer responsible for the commission in updating/adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase