As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives. It provides viable, forward looking solutions for political, economic, ecological and social development in a globalised world. GIZ promotes complex reforms and change processes. Its corporate objective is to improve people’s living conditions on a sustainable basis.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, is announcing as following:

Call for expressions of interest

In frame of the „Integrated Waste Management and Marine Litter Prevention in the Western Balkans” MLP project, GIZ GmbH seeks for:

Short-term national consultant for SMEs/start-up support on plastic waste reduction or recycling strategies in Kosovo.

For this purpose, GIZ invites physical persons (consultants) with experience in support to SMEs sector, knowledge on plastic waste prevention and/or recycling, knowledge on waste management concepts with a focus on plastic /green entrepreneurship, to express their interest in the mentioned services.

The assignment requires one experienced and specialized national consultant who will assist the advisory of SMEs/start-ups on implementing first steps of their business models based on plastic waste reduction or recycling strategies in Kosovo.

The applicants shall be evaluated based on the CV and the following qualifications: General Qualification

Education: University Master in Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing, Environmental sciences, or equivalent.

Professional experience:

• at least 8 years of experience in coordination (please list two relevant projects in this period)
• at least 5 years of experience on advising private sector and start-ups, with the accent on plastic waste prevention and/or recycling, waste management and/or green entrepreneurship (please list one relevant project in the last 3 years).

Experience and knowledge of the Kosovo working context over the past 10 years.

Language skills: Business fluency in Albanian and English (C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).

The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is funding the MLP project while Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) is implementing the project. The overall Project duration is June 2022 – May 2025.

Interested individuals are invited to submit their electronic application in English language. The deadline for submitting the application is 15.02.2023 at 15:00, via email at: procurement.kosovo@giz.de, titled/labelled as “83429794 – Expression of Interest, short-term national consultant for SMEs/start-up support on plastic waste reduction or recycling strategies in Kosovo.”

Please note that:

• Questions from bidders/applicants regarding the content of the inquiry can be sent at procurement.kosovo@giz.de.
• Bids must be submitted in pdf format.
• The size of emails for quotation is limited to 30 MB. In case the quotations exceed the maximum data size, quotation documents must be sent via filetransfer.giz.de.
• You should use the reference number 83429794, otherwise we cannot consider your offer.

Only shortlisted experts will be notified regarding further application procedures!