GIZ Office Kazakhstan would like to announce a new vacant position in the capacity of Law Advisor in the project “Financing Energy for Low-Carbon Investments Cities, the Cities Advisory Facility Eastern Partnership and Central Asia Programme (FELICITY II)”. The position should provide accelerating project implementation support in view of the IKI mid-term evaluation of the project until the end of 2025 taking into account local legal and political provisions.

The project addresses technical and financial barriers to low carbon infrastructure finance in Central Asia and Eastern Partnership Countries. FELICITY II focuses on two sectors in four countries: residential energy-efficiency (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine) and water and wastewater (Ukraine, Georgia). FELICITY II follows a multi-level approach by addressing simultaneously institutional and financial barriers to low-carbon infrastructure development at the national and sub-national level with a view to leverage investments.

Application deadline: 19.03.2025

Responsibilities

• set up of coordination structures for the project office and other national initiatives to scale energy efficiency in the residential building sector; providing with an inception report with stakeholder map and steering structure;
• set up coordination structures with potential scaling activities in the city of Petropavlovsk, Almaty and Astana to enable learning processes from the pilot in Kokshetau;
• set up FELICITYII activities in reinforcing key messages on energy efficiency in building in all relevant strategic development and climate policy processes, providing with a process map with indication of FELICITYII intervention opportunity;
• supporting an appropriate integration of the FELICITYII activities in Green Cluster activities and TEI (process matrix, with indication of FELICITYII contributions);
• coordinating the 2 months process of a multi-stakeholder inventory and gap analysis on legal and policy frameworks for fostering energy efficiency in residential buildings, providing with a situation report and allocation of FELICITYII involvement;
• providing other written analytical reports to support the IKI-mid-term evaluation from May till December 2025;
• where appropriate and reasonable, the position holder is willing to perform tasks outside the scope of the job description.

• University Degree in either Law or Social Sciences or Economics, Finance or Natural Sciences
• 5 years of professional experience in organization and management of stakeholder cooperation and project implementation; experience in the field of international cooperation and GIZ procedures is a strong asset
• Proven experience in analytical work combined with excellent drafting skills
• Basic technical understanding in the field of energy efficiency in the building sector and decarbonization of the economy is an asset
• Skills in knowledge management and effective documentation of work results; ability to write structured reports and depict process charts in GIZ Standard software would be an asset
• Openness and ability to constantly learn new approaches for agile project result achievement
• Very good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office)
• Fluent written and oral knowledge in Russian, German or English. Good working knowledge of Kazakh language is an asset.

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