Are you highly qualified with extensive career experience? Are you eager to make a contribution, interested in other countries and open to other cultures and methods of working? Are you looking for a challenge in the field of international cooperation and keen to spend a few years working abroad?
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‘Integrated expert’ is the term used for experts with a high degree of specialization who put their skills to good use in key positions in developing countries and emerging economies. They work directly for an employer in the country of assignment on a local contract and are fully integrated into the employer’s organisation – hence the name ‘integrated expert’. They usually spend at least two years in the country of assignment working for a state institution, private company, chamber of commerce, association or NGO. Their role is to pass on their knowledge and help local people acquire the skills they need to develop their own country. The objectives of the assignment are agreed in advance between the employer and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH’s local representative.
The Centre for International Migration and Development brings together experts from the EU and employers from developing countries and emerging economies. If the employer is unable to find suitable candidates locally, CIM/GIZ looks for applicants with the right profile on the EU and EFTA labour market and draws up a shortlist. The final choice of candidate is then made by the employer. Once the recruitment process has been completed, the integrated expert is given a local employment contract and is paid a salary that is based on local rates. The local salary is then topped up by CIM/GIZ.
