83456927 – Consultant – Junior Trade Professional: Market Access under the Protocol Trade in Goods

GIZ, on behalf of the German government, supports the AfCFTA through the GIZ Support project to the AfCFTA (GIZ AfCFTA). GIZ AfCFTA supports the AU Commission (AUC) Department of Economic Development, Trade, Tourism, Industry, Mining (ETTIM) as well as the AfCFTA Secretariat in Accra, Ghana in the AfCFTA negotiations and implementation. All activities of GIZ AfCFTA are closely coordinated across the continental, regional (East African Community (EAC), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Southern African Development Community (SADC)) and country (Cote d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Rwanda, Tunisia, Zambia) level to ensure that all levels are appropriately linked. The support is partly provided through the Team Europe Technical Assistance Facility to support the AfCFTA and African regional integration (EU-TAF), which is financed by the EU, Germany, France, and Sweden and jointly implemented with Expertise France and FIIAPP.

In 2020, the AfCFTA Secretariat was established as a new AU Organ in Accra, Ghana to manage and oversee the establishment of the AfCFTA. The Directorate of Trade in Goods and Competition of the AfCFTA Secretariat is mandated with the coordination and monitoring of the implementation and operationalization of the AfCFTA Agreement in relation to the Protocol on Trade in Goods and its related annexes. To effectively manage the negotiation of Trade in Goods (TiG) commitments and prepare their implementation, the AfCFTA Secretariat Directorate of Trade in Goods and Competition is seeking technical support through a Trade in Goods expert to support its work. It is against this background that GIZ, on behalf of the AfCFTA Secretariat, would like to engage the services of an individual Junior Trade Professional to support the work of the Directorate. In addition, the consultant will support the coordination of Market Access programmes, activities, and the initiatives (Guided Trade Initiative) of the AfCFTA Secretariat.

The GIZ project supporting the African continental free trade area (AfCFTA) seeks qualified appraiser to provide Consultant – Junior Trade Professional: Market Access under the Protocol Trade in Goods.

Further Details of the assignment can be found in the terms of reference. Please request all tender documents by email from [email protected] mentioning “83456927 _ Junior Trade Consultant” on the subject email.

Period of assignment: 15 Feb 2024 – 15 Dec 2024 for 180 working days.

Qualifications of key expert 1

• Education/training (2.2.1): Master’s degree in international trade law or a related field
• Language (2.2.2): Fluency in one of the AfCFTA Secretariats working languages (Arabic, English, French or Portuguese). Corresponding to C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• General professional experience (2.2.3): Five (5) years of professional experience in the area of international trade.
• Specific professional experience (2.2.4): Two (2) years of professional experience related to Trade in Goods
  • 2 years of professional experience trade policy formulation, negotiation, and/or implementation at national levels
  • 2 years of professional experience on trade in goods negotiations at the level of Regional Economic Communities (REC) or the AfCFTA
• Leadership/management experience (2.2.5): – not applicable –
• Regional experience (2.2.6): Work assignments in two different African sub-regions
• Development Cooperation (DC) experience (2.2.7): – not applicable –

Other (2.2.8): – not applicable