The GIZ Jordan Project"FURSATI – Empowering Women for Technical and Green Crafts Professions and in Career Development” is seeking to hire a “TVET & Private Sector Advisor - Aqaba” for full-time based employment.

FURSATI – “Empowering Women for Technical and Green Crafts Professions and in Career Development” is a BMZ-funded GIZ project in Jordan’s TVET portfolio, running from 05/2026 to 04/2030. The project aims to improve employment perspectives in Jordan, especially for young women, in green, technical and creative sectors. It follows a gender-transformative approach, with gender equality and women’s empowerment as its principal objective. 

FURSATI works at system, school, community and labour-market level. It supports gender-responsive TVET reform, practice-oriented BTEC education, social norm change around women’s employment, and women’s transition into work. 

Output 1 strengthens the Ministry of Education’s capacities to implement TVET reform in a gender-transformative and labour market-oriented way, including policy advice, capacity development, career orientation and private sector engagement. 

Output 2 supports selected BTEC girls’ schools in improving practical and gender-responsive training in green, technical and creative fields, with a focus on work-based learning and cooperation with companies. 

Output 3 addresses social norms limiting women’s participation in these sectors through evidence-based campaigns, community dialogue, Sport for Development approaches, and exchange with women’s and business associations. 

Output 4 strengthens labour market-oriented qualification offers and women’s transition into employment through labour market analysis, training development, mentoring, career guidance, job fairs, internships and cooperation with relevant associations. 

Qualifications and Specialist Knowledge

• At least 8 years of professional experience in Aqaba and southern Jordan in programme implementation, entrepreneurship, employment promotion, private sector development and youth economic empowerment.
• Strong knowledge of the Aqaba context, including regional stakeholder networks, local governance structures, private sector actors, entrepreneurship ecosystems and socio-economic dynamics in southern Jordan.
• Proven experience in coordinating regional initiatives with government entities, private sector actors, incubators, community-based organisations and local implementation partners.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, coordinating and following up on entrepreneurship, employment and skills-development activities, including outreach to youth, women and local communities.
• Strong experience in private sector partnership development, labour-market linkages, internship placement, startup support and facilitation of employment-oriented opportunities.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex local implementation processes, organise events and workshops, coordinate multiple stakeholders and ensure timely follow-up at regional level.
• Experience in development cooperation and donor-funded programmes, including GIZ and EU-funded projects, monitoring, reporting and coordination with international partners.
• Language skills: Arabic native; English fluent.

Main Responsibilities

• Coordinate and oversee project implementation in Aqaba and southern Jordan, ensuring coherence across activities, partners, timelines and expected results.
• Lead the regional implementation of employment-oriented training measures, including preparation, partner coordination and follow-up with training providers.
• Coordinate awareness-raising, outreach and campaign activities in Aqaba, particularly on women’s participation in technical, green and employment-oriented sectors.
• Provide technical and operational guidance to Band 2 staff in Aqaba, ensuring task clarity, implementation quality and timely escalation of Problems to the Project Manager.
• Maintain and strengthen cooperation with regional partners, including ASEZA, local government, training institutions, private sector actors and community organisations.
• Ensure monitoring, documentation and reporting of Aqaba-based activities, including data collection, partner feedback and lessons learned.
• Adapt project approaches to the Aqaba context, ensuring they are realistic, locally anchored, gender-responsive and labour market-oriented.
• Support quality assurance of project outputs in Aqaba by reviewing progress, identifying bottlenecks and contributing to practical solutions.

The brief profile is not intended to provide a full and complete description.

Where appropriate and reasonable, the position holder is willing to perform tasks outside the scope of the job description.

Emanating from GIZ’s role in enhancing and promoting the efficiency and competency of its political partners and entities and their respective employees, and in view of GIZ’s aim at maintaining and encouraging the stability of employment at its political partners and entities, this position will not be available to any official employee currently working at any of GIZ’s political partners, governmental ministry, department or entity, including any official employees who are on unpaid leave.

GIZ is committed to gender balance and diversity without distinction as to race, gender or religion, and without discrimination of persons with disabilities. Remuneration will be in accordance with the candidate's qualifications, experience, as well as the scope of responsibility of the job announced and in line with local standards.

GIZ would like to increase the proportion of employees with disability. Applications from persons with disabilities are most welcome.

GIZ will send feedback only to the candidates that are shortlisted and interviewed.