IT Advisor at Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (German Agency for International Cooperation) is an international enterprise owned by the German Federal government, operating in many fields across more than 130 countries.

In Nigeria, GIZ's portfolio includes among others, a programme to support the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in its regional integration goals. The programme aims to strengthen sector-specific capacities in the areas of Peace and Security, Customs and Trade as weir as Strategic Management and Organizational Development in the ECOWAS Commission.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: IT Advisor

Vacancy Announcement: 013
Location: Abuja (FCT)

Background
GIZ. Solutions that work.

• As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. GIZ has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment promotion, energy and the environment, and peace and security.
• The diverse expertise of our federal enterprise is in demand around the globe – from the German Government, European Union institutions, the United Nations, the private sector, and governments of other countries.
• We work with businesses, civil society actors and research institutions, fostering successful interaction between development policy and other policy fields and areas of activity. Our main commissioning party is the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
• The registered offices of GIZ are in Bonn and Eschborn. Our approximately 23,500 employees, almost 70 percent of whom are national personnel, work in around 120 countries (July 2020) GIZ has worked in Nigeria since 1974. Since 2004, GIZ has maintained a country office in the capital city Abuja. Currently 466 national and 63 international employees, 37 regional staff, 4 integrated specialists and 3 development workers are working in the country (January 2025).

The Project
Promoting a climate-friendly electricity market in West Africa (ProCEM):

• The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) aims to operationalise a regional electricity market and promote renewable energies. A common electricity market allows cross-border electricity trading. This improves the quality of the energy supply, reduces costs and lowers investment risks.
• Despite significant improvements, only limited amounts of electricity have so far been traded across borders. The energy sector is poorly equipped for electricity trading due to structural deficits, economic weaknesses, and a lack of operational performance capacity. The institutional, technical, legal and regulatory conditions for a climate friendly regional electricity market are still insufficient.
• The institutional, technical, legal and regulatory conditions for the energy sector in the ECOWAS member states have improved and facilitate a functioning, climate-friendly regional electricity market.
• The project supports the partners in operationalising the regional electricity market. The aim is to improve the operational performance capacity of the electricity utilities to facilitate participation in the electricity market.
• Moreover, the project is developing tools – based on international standards – that optimise the technical, legal and regulatory conditions for the expansion of regenerative power plants and grid connected battery energy storage systems.
• The project enables experts from regional training providers to develop practical and solution-oriented training courses for energy stakeholders through systematic capacity development. A particular emphasis is on digital and gender-responsive implementation.
• The project is run in cooperation with the consulting firms Estudios Energeticos Consultores S.A., ARGE GFA Consulting Group GmbH and ARGE INTEGRATION Umwelt and Energie GmbH.

Responsibilities and Tasks
You support the Head of the Energy Information System Component in carrying out his/her tasks within the framework of Output 2:

• The Energy Information System is fully operational, maintained and updated in all ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania for providing reliable energy indicators.

In this capacity, you are responsible for carrying out the following tasks:

• Assess equipment and software used by national ECOWAS energy teams (plus Mauritania) and ECOWAS Commission to identify and procure, if needed, new equipment and software.
• Establish and manage the platforms at regional and national level.
• Develop the database software environment and structure the database.
• Maintain and update the information system in all ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania.Vacancy Announcement 013
• Run capacity-building sessions to provide national players with the relevant knowledge to use the energy information system.
• Contribute to project monitoring and evaluation and to the preparation of project reports.
• Gather useful information for activities, missions, study trips, meetings, etc.

Required qualifications, Competences and Experience
Qualifications:

• University Degree in Computer Science, SoftwareEngineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science or any related field.

Professional experience :

• At least 8 years of professional experience in the field of Computer Network and Internet Design.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of the Energy information System.
• At least 5 years of professional experience regarding support to an ECOWAS Institution.
• Proven experience in supporting public and private institutionsin ECOWAS member states.
• Extensive experience in cooperating with institutionsresponsible for energy statistics, such as ECREEE, AFREC, IRENA, and IEA.
• Good command of IT tools, in particular: E-sankey andsankey.csaladen, Computer languages: MySQL (databases), HTML, XML, etc and the Internet, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Outlook), MS Teams.
• Fluency in spoken and written French is mandatory (international level C2). Independent and proficient use ofEnglish (at least international level C1).

Salary
According to GIZ salary scale for Band 4.

Application Closing Date
27th February, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and letter of motivationas one document with complete contact details to: recruitment-nigeria@giz.de using "013" as the subject of the email.

Note

• GIZ is an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity.
• Allqualified candidates, regardless of disability, age, sex, ethnicity, race,and religion are encouraged to apply.
• Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.