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Digital Infrastructure Technical Expert In The Digital Transformation Centre Kenya
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As an international organization commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) provides international cooperation service for sustainable development in a wide variety of areas, including energy, environment, digitalization, employment, and economic development. We work with partners all over the world across different sectors towards building a future worth living for every individual.
About the Digital Transformation Centre Kenya
The Digital Transformation Centre (DTC) Kenya is an initiative of German Development Cooperation commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Union (EU) established to support the country’s digital transition towards a sustainable and human-centred digital economy and society. The goal of DTC, on the one hand, is to strengthen the country’s digital economy. It does so by supporting the local digital innovation ecosystem, (up)skilling a tech savvy workforce, assisting SMEs in their digital transformation, fostering data-sharing for value creation, and working towards decent job creation in the gig economy. On the other hand, the DTC Kenya seeks to strengthen an inclusive digital society. In this realm, it explores how emerging technologies like AI can be used for socioeconomic benefit, builds capacities on data privacy to increase consumer trust in digital products and services and works on digitalizing public service delivery in a user-centric way.
About the Data Economy Project and the Digital Investment Facility The Data Economy Project is part of the Global Programme Digital Transformation, commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Union (EU), with the overall aim of improving the conditions for a value-generating data economy together with the digital ecosystem at all levels – macro, meso and micro level. Under this mandate, the Data Economy Project is implementing the EU Action “Data Governance in Africa”, the first Team Europe approach on the topic of data economy, thus, being an official flagship-initiative under the EU Global Gateway Strategy to promote a human-centered approach to data economy and society. The initiative of 5 EU Member States - Belgium, France, Finland, Estonia, and Germany – is co-funded by the European Commission and aims to strengthen data sovereignty of African partner countries and foster local value creation from data. It supports the African Union Commission, Regional Economic Communities, and their Member States in (1) Developing data policy frameworks, (2) developing data use cases to showcase the value of data and enable data to flow across borders, and (3) supporting the identification of investments in secure and green data infrastructure in Africa.
To foster investments in green and secure infrastructures, GIZ is establishing a Digital Investment Facility (DIF) covering Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in close collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Finland and Finnish HAUS Institute. The DIF will support the facilitation of investments in data infrastructure (Data Centres and Internet-Exchange-Points), that are environmentally friendly (green) and in line with state-of-the-art cybersecurity, under the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus (EFSD+) and other funding sources from EU Member States. The DIF will strive to achieve this by promoting enhanced and integrated partnerships between the public and private sector, as well as European Development Finance Institutions (EDFIs), with a focus on facilitating interactions between European and African actors in line with the EU’s Global Gateway Strategy. The resources of the facility will be prioritized to regions that show the highest demand and capability to develop feasible infrastructure projects and where also markets show sufficient demand for sustaining the infrastructure. By this, the DIF will contribute to bridging the gap between European financing opportunities and African data infrastructure markets.
Against this backdrop, we seek a committed, motivated, and highly skilled individual to implement the Data Economy Project’s activities within the DIF in the East African region. The Digital Infrastructure Technical Expert will be part of a global, multi-cultural team of up to 10 dedicated experts allocated across Finland, Germany, Senegal, Kenya, and South Africa.
Responsibilities
As an international organization commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Development (BMZ), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) provides international cooperation service for sustainable development in a wide variety of areas, including energy, environment, digitalization, employment, and economic development. We work with partners all over the world across different sectors towards building a future worth living for every individual.
About the Digital Transformation Centre Kenya
The Digital Transformation Centre (DTC) Kenya is an initiative of German Development Cooperation commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Union (EU) established to support the country’s digital transition towards a sustainable and human-centred digital economy and society. The goal of DTC, on the one hand, is to strengthen the country’s digital economy. It does so by supporting the local digital innovation ecosystem, (up)skilling a tech savvy workforce, assisting SMEs in their digital transformation, fostering data-sharing for value creation, and working towards decent job creation in the gig economy. On the other hand, the DTC Kenya seeks to strengthen an inclusive digital society. In this realm, it explores how emerging technologies like AI can be used for socioeconomic benefit, builds capacities on data privacy to increase consumer trust in digital products and services and works on digitalizing public service delivery in a user-centric way.
About the Data Economy Project and the Digital Investment Facility The Data Economy Project is part of the Global Programme Digital Transformation, commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the European Union (EU), with the overall aim of improving the conditions for a value-generating data economy together with the digital ecosystem at all levels – macro, meso and micro level. Under this mandate, the Data Economy Project is implementing the EU Action “Data Governance in Africa”, the first Team Europe approach on the topic of data economy, thus, being an official flagship-initiative under the EU Global Gateway Strategy to promote a human-centered approach to data economy and society. The initiative of 5 EU Member States - Belgium, France, Finland, Estonia, and Germany – is co-funded by the European Commission and aims to strengthen data sovereignty of African partner countries and foster local value creation from data. It supports the African Union Commission, Regional Economic Communities, and their Member States in (1) Developing data policy frameworks, (2) developing data use cases to showcase the value of data and enable data to flow across borders, and (3) supporting the identification of investments in secure and green data infrastructure in Africa.
To foster investments in green and secure infrastructures, GIZ is establishing a Digital Investment Facility (DIF) covering Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in close collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Finland and Finnish HAUS Institute. The DIF will support the facilitation of investments in data infrastructure (Data Centres and Internet-Exchange-Points), that are environmentally friendly (green) and in line with state-of-the-art cybersecurity, under the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus (EFSD+) and other funding sources from EU Member States. The DIF will strive to achieve this by promoting enhanced and integrated partnerships between the public and private sector, as well as European Development Finance Institutions (EDFIs), with a focus on facilitating interactions between European and African actors in line with the EU’s Global Gateway Strategy. The resources of the facility will be prioritized to regions that show the highest demand and capability to develop feasible infrastructure projects and where also markets show sufficient demand for sustaining the infrastructure. By this, the DIF will contribute to bridging the gap between European financing opportunities and African data infrastructure markets.
Against this backdrop, we seek a committed, motivated, and highly skilled individual to implement the Data Economy Project’s activities within the DIF in the East African region. The Digital Infrastructure Technical Expert will be part of a global, multi-cultural team of up to 10 dedicated experts allocated across Finland, Germany, Senegal, Kenya, and South Africa.
Responsibilities
The Digital Infrastructure Technical Expert is responsible for:
Supporting the implementation of the DIF’s activities relating to;
1) Enhancing stakeholders’ capacities in Africa and Europe to design, promote and operate green and secure data infrastructure as well as in understanding and applying international environmental and cybersecurity standards in SSA;
2) Providing the European Commission and EDFIs with market analyses identifying gaps and market failures as well as mapping of promising investment opportunities in line with the EU’s Global Gateway Strategy on green and secure data infrastructure in SSA;
3) Facilitating interactions between African project promoters and EDFIs on sound bankable investment projects for EDFIs’ consideration through selecting and supporting projects of key stakeholders to become economically and technically feasible, robust, environmentally friendly, and secure.
Develop and foster partnerships across all levels including the public sector, private sector, academia, and civil society
Effectively managing a network of local and regional project partners as well as steering of consultants and other service providers
Developing ownership for the overall project concept and its delivery; pro-actively identifying opportunities and supporting the project manager in updating the approach according to the latest developments and the needs of the project’s partners
Support planning, procurement processes, financial management and monitoring of the project activities
Contribute actively to reports (regular and ad-hoc), PR materials, and other related tasks to reporting and communication for the DIF
Coordinate closely with the other projects within the Global Program and beyond to ensure alignment
Tasks
The Technical Expert will perform the following tasks under disciplinary and technical supervision of the Global Programme’s DIF team lead.
Technical advice for implementation of project activities
Supporting the implementation of the DIF’s activities related to capacity building, technical guidelines and specifications, infrastructure project preparation, and project advisory services. This includes, e.g.:
Support the implementation of training activities
Draft terms of reference for the DIF’s activities to mobilise external expertise
Review, comment and accompany the set-up of potential financial agreements
Support activities by implementing partners, follow-up and ensure that quality results
are delivered in a timely manner
Project management
Actively support project planning for partnerships activities within the DIF
Prepare and manage consultancy assignments and financing agreements, and monitor service providers in completing their tasks
Support in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of project activities, and reporting
Manage meetings and events with partners, service providers and other relevant stakeholders (preparation, implementation, follow-up)
Support knowledge management and public relation of the programme, including documentation of lessons learnt, best practices, case studies and success stories
Support the preparation of communication materials and progress updates to BMZ and the European Commission
Partnerships and network management
Initiate and foster partnerships with government, private sector, academia, and civil society actors in East Africa for the DIF
Manage a network of project partners consisting of African and European stakeholders
Support in keeping positive and productive relations with implementing partners, and other stakeholders
Other duties/additional tasks
- Perform other duties and tasks as assigned
Required Qualifications, competences, and experience.
The Digital Infrastructure Technical Expert should have the following qualifications, competences, and experiences:
Educational Qualifications
- Advanced University Degree in information and communication technology, computer science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, or related field
Professional experience
- At least 6 years of work experience in related field Substantial experience in project management (conceptualisation, planning, coordination, steering, monitoring), particularly regarding digital / data infrastructure such as data centres and internet-exchange-points
- Experience in assessing, steering, supporting the conceptualisation of infrastructure business models incl. technical, economic, legal, environmental, operational, and
scheduling aspects - Knowledge of common global and / or regional specifications in the data infrastructure industry particularly European environmental and cybersecurity provisions
- Very good understanding of international and particularly digital connectivity on
the African continent - Experience in preparing and supporting the implementation of trainings, ideally related to cybersecurity standards, digital services and markets, environmental and energy-efficiency guidelines for data infrastructure, sustainable business models for data infrastructure, for governmental and private sector stakeholders, among others
- Proven skills and experience in networking and fostering partnerships in the digital
connectivity field. An existing network in African ecosystems, particularly in West, East, or Southern Africa, and beyond is an advantage - Experience in working with and / or advising government institutions on digital topics; an understanding of investment-related aspects of digital connectivity will be an advantage
- Proven work experience in the East Africa region, experience in development cooperation is desired
Other knowledge, additional competences
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Demonstrated ability to communicate in both written and spoken English at high level.
Knowledge of Swahili and / or other local language is an advantageAbility and willingness to work in a dynamic, international team under minimal supervision
Strong interpersonal skills and a willingness to cooperate effectively with colleagues and partners
Self-starter who works independently and has a flexible attitude but is a strong team player simultaneously.
Very good working knowledge of ICT technologies (related software, phone, email, internet), Excel and other computer applications (e.g. MS Office)
Assignment period:
Until 30.11.2025
Duty Station: Nairobi
Vacancy Reference Number: GIZ/DTC/12/09/2023
GIZ is an equal opportunity employer. All interested Candidates are required to indicate their salary expectations in the motivational letter.
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