Expert 1: International Team Leader

Tasks:

• Overall responsibility for the advisory packages 
• Quality assurance of all documents, services and outputs
• Ensuring the coherence and complementarity of the contractor’s services with other services delivered by the project at local and national level
• Taking cross-cutting themes into consideration (e.g., gender equality)
• Staff management, in particular identifying the need for short-term assignments within
  the available budget, planning and managing the assignments and supporting local and
  international experts
• Ensuring that monitoring procedures are carried out
• Regular reporting in accordance with deadlines and agreed upon formats
• Responsibility for checking the use of funds and financial planning in consultation with
  the officer responsible for the commission at GIZ
• In close cooperation with GIZ, providing overall strategic guidance to the staff and
  short-term experts in the implementation the work packages
• Supporting in updating and/or adapting the project strategy, in evaluations and in preparing a follow-on phase

Qualifications:

• Education/training: University master’s degree in business management/business administration, economics, public administration or change management
• Languages: Knowledge of English (C1) in the Common European Framework
  of Reference for Languages
• General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in project management
• Specific professional experience: 8 years of professional experience in managing projects in the education, TVET, employment or private sector development field
• Leadership/management experience: 10 years of management/leadership experience as project team leader or manager in a company
• Regional experience: 3 years of professional experience in Egypt
• Development cooperation experience: 10 years of experience working on DC projects
• Other: 3 years of experience in financial management

Expert 2: Change Management Advisor (National)

 Tasks:

• Support the Team Leader in the overall management of advisory packages, including
  the coordination of short-term experts
• Promote a change management mindset throughout all work packages
• Moderate/facilitate between ministerial and private sectors needs
• Support team members in developing outcome-oriented designs for processes and meetings; Support BoD members in fulfilling their role 
• Support the CoC management in successfully completing the change process of transforming their school into a CoC 
• Develop the CoC school network blueprint together with expert 3 
• Support experts 4 and 5 in adapting the CoC school network blueprint for their respective sector and facilitating its implementation 

Qualifications:

• Education/training: University master’s degree in corporate governance, corporate management, change management or organisational development
• Languages: Knowledge of written modern standard Arabic C1 and spoken Egyptian Arabic and English, C1  in the Common European Framework of Reference
  for Languages
• General professional experience: 8 years of professional experience in managing change processes in public organisations
• Specific professional experience: 5 years of professional experience in managing public-private or multistakeholder partnerships
• Leadership/management experience: 3 years of management/leadership experience as project team leader or manager in a company
• Other: professional certificate as a facilitator/moderator or coach

Expert 6: CoC Expert (International)

Tasks:

• Provide technical advice on the establishment of CoC governance structures
• Support the identification of training needs for CoC managers
• Provide capacity development for CoC managers

Qualifications:

• Education/training: university master’s degree in education policy or TVET
• Language: English C1 in the Common European Framework Reference for Languages
• General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience the management of TVET schools
• Specific professional experience: 5 years of professional experience in the establishment of advanced TVET schools (such as CoCs)
• Leadership/management experience: not applicable
• Regional experience: 5 years of work experience in the MENA region (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen)

Short term Expert Pool 1: ‘CoC Management’ with 2 national experts

Tasks of the expert pool 1:

• Legal advisor: Serve as ressource persons for legal questions regarding the development, governance and management of a CoC in Egypt
• Financial advisor: Advise the CoC management on financial management questions,
  provide training (e.g. on generally accepted accounting principles/methods and book
  keeping systems)

Qualifications of the expert pool 1:

• Education/training: 1 expert with a university master’s degree in law, 1 expert with a university master’s degree in accounting
• Language: All experts with knowledge of written modern standard Arabic C1, spoken Egyptian Arabic and English C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
• General professional experience: 1 expert with 10 years of professional experience as a practicing lawyer, 1 expert with 10 years of professional experience as accountant
• Specific professional experience: 1 expert with 5 years of professional experience in education or public-private partnership law 1 expert with 5 years of professional experience in public sector accounting
• Regional experience: Each expert with 5 years of work experience in the MENA region

Short term Expert Pool 2 ‘CoC Training Programme Development’ with 8 international experts

Tasks of the expert pool 2:

• (Re) design of up to 8 dual Training programmes in a tandem of national and international short term experts.
• Procurement specification, ToT for new equipment, development of workshop
  maintenance plans
• Technical and didactical trainings of TVET master trainers, including skill need
  analysis, technical ToT preparation, ToT implementation, preparation of teacher
  trainings, mentoring of master trainers

Qualifications of the expert pool 2:

• Education/training: University master’s degree in TVET, education science, construction engineering, wood engineering
• Language: English C1 in Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
• General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in the relevant
  occupation
• Specific professional experience: 5 years of professional experience in human resource development (design/development of training programmes, identification and procurement of relevant training equipment, implementation of skills training)

Expert 3: TVET Advisor (National)

Tasks:

• Coordinate all project activities with relevant TVET actors
• Develop the CoC school network blueprint together with expert 2 
• Ensure alignment of all activities with the Egyptican TVET system
• Act as resource person to other experts for TVET system 
• Overall responsibility for (re)-designing 8 dual training programmes together with
  experts 4 and 5 and short-term experts 
• Ensure close coordination with CoCs and network schools in the two sectors
• Together with expert 2 ensure the set up of the 2 CoCs
• If required, provide technical capacity development support to CoC personnel
• Manage the knowledge management for the assignment in line with the monitoring and
  evaluation (M&E) and learning concept of TCTI
• Ensure the M&E for standard indicators as well as project indicators
• Together with experts 4 and 5 responsible for equipping and upgrading the 2 CoCs

Qualifications:

• Education/training: University master’s degree in education, TVET or labour market
• Languages: Knowledge of written modern standard Arabic C1, spoken Egyptian Arabic and English C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
• General professional experience: 15 years of professional experience in the TVET sector
• Specific professional experience: 10 years of professional experience working at TVET education providers (technical schools, dual system schools, private academies)
• Regional experience: 10 years professional experience in Egypt
• Development cooperation experience: 2 years of experience working on DC projects
• Other: 3 years of professional experience in developing competency-based curricula

Expert 4: Sector Lead for Construction (National)

Tasks:

• Act as main focal point for all activities in the construction sector
• Identify, network and act as key liaison for private partners in the sector (sectoral representation, companies and others)
• Ensure the needs of the private sector are reflected in the CoC development
• Support expert 3 in (re-)designing 4 dual training programmes for the construction sector
• Support the Team Leader in identifying and coordinating short-term experts from the
  construction sector

Qualifications:

• Education/training: University master’s degree in civil engineering, construction technology, construction management, architecture or building surveying
• Languages: Knowledge of written modern standard Arabic, spoken Egyptian Arabic and English C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
• General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in a private company in the construction sector
• Specific professional experience: 8 years of professional experience in human resource development in the construction sector
• Development cooperation experience: 2 years of experience working on DC projects

Expert 5: Sector Lead for Wood working and furniture (National)

Tasks:

• Act as main focal point for all activities in the wood working and furnituresector
• Identify, network and act as key liaison for private partners in the sector (sectoral
  representation, companies and others)
• Ensuring the needs of the private sector are reflected in the CoC development
• Support expert 3 in (re-)designing 4 dual training programmes for the wood working
  and furniture sector
• Support the Team Leader in identifying and coordinating short-term experts from the
  wood working and furniture sector

Qualifications: 

• Education/training: University master’s degree in wood working, (mechanical, industrial) engineering with a specialisation in wood, sustainable carpentry, wood manufacturing, wood technology,furniture design or furniture technology)
• Languages: Knowledge of written modern standard Arabic C1, spoken Egyptian Arabic and English C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
• General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in the wood working and furnituresector
• Specific professional experience: 8 years of professional experience in human resource development in the wood working and furniture sector
• Development cooperation experience: 2 years of experience working on DC projects

Short term Expert Pool 3 ‘CoC Training Programme Development’

Tasks of the expert pool 3:

• (Re) design of up to 8 dual Training programmes in a tandem of national and
  international short term experts.
• Procurement specification, ToT for new equipment, development of workshop
  maintenance plans
• Technical and didactical trainings of TVET master trainers, including skill need
  analysis, technical ToT preparation, ToT implementation, preparation of teacher
  trainings, mentoring of master trainers

Qualifications of the expert pool 3:

• Education/training: University master degree in TVET, education science, construction
  engineering, wood engineering
• Language: Knowledge of written modern standard Arabic C1, spoken Egyptian and English C1  in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
• General professional experience: 10 years of professional experience in the relevant
  occupation in Egypt
• Specific professional experience: 5 years of professional experience in human
  resource development (design/development of training programmes, identification and
  procurement of relevant training equipment, implementation of skills training) in Egypt

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