To strengthen our international project acquisition / tender management team in our headquarters, GITEC-IGIP GmbH is looking for a motivated new team member (m/f/d) with experience in team/project assistance excellent language skills in English and French to start as soon as possible.
About the company
GITEC-IGIP GmbH is a leading consulting company for development cooperation projects headquartered in Germany’s fourth-largest city Cologne. GITEC-IGIP’s multi-cultural team and network of companies and offices around the world has more than five decades of professional experience and more than 930 successfully implemented projects across the four continents. Our companies lead mainly publicly financed development projects. For more details, please visit our website www.gitec-consult.com
Our vacancy
The International Project Acquisition / Tender Management Team together with our technical departments, prepares Expressions of Interest (EoI / PQ) as well as technical and financial bids for international donor tenders (KfW, GIZ, EU, WB, ADB and others). The team coordinates the bidding process both in terms of company information and project staff. The Tender Managers ensure that the tender preparation is of the highest standard and meets the set deadlines.
Your Core Tasks in this Position
- Analysis of tender documents (Terms of Reference / ToR) regarding administrative and organisational requirements
- Coordination of the EoI/tender team including deadlines
- Communication with national and international partner companies, financiers, clients and project staff
- Responsible for preparation and receipt of all administrative documents and their accuracy
- Writing (non-technical) bid components (e.g. description of project staff, quality management, logistics) in the project language;
- Formatting documents using MS Office products, taking into account the highest quality standards;
- Compiling and sending the final EoI/quotation documents.
Your Profile
- Completed commercial training or training in foreign languages (e.g. Foreign Language / European Assistant);
- Very good language skills:
- English (very good to excellent oral and written language skills);
- French (very good to excellent oral and written language skills);
- Other languages (German, Spanish, Portuguese would be a plus)
- Relevant professional experience in the field of team / project assistance, secretarial work or similar
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills (Word/Excel including working with large documents and graphics), MS Teams
- Excellent communication and time management skills
- Organizational skills, especially when working under time pressure
- Independent working style and sense of responsibility
- Flexibility and team player mentality
- Open, confident and communicative personality
- Experience in acquisition support / tender management in international development cooperation would be a plus.
Our Offer
- Interesting and challenging position in an international working environment;
- The opportunity to gain in-depth experience in meaningful projects of varied scale and complexity
- The chance to work in open-minded, dynamic and multi-cultural teams
- Position with excellent (professional) development possibilities
- Flat organisational hierarchies
- Remuneration package with 13 monthly salaries per year
- Flexible working hours
If you are interested
We look forward to receiving your application documents including a motivational statement with information on earliest start / notice period and gross salary expectations, up-to-date curriculum vitae, copies of professional degree(s) and work certificates to:
Quoting the Job ref. no.:ACQ_2024-09
Or apply online via the Application-Form in the section below.
Please note that we can only consider candidates who meet the required criteria!