Programme Officer on Climate and Disaster Risk Financing “DKTI”

Minimum requirements:• Master’s degree in economics, finance, disaster risk management, environment, natural resources management or closely related/relevant fields;• Having at least 5 years of working experience in finance, insurance, public asset management, climate or disaster risk financing, preferably in development cooperation setting;• Good knowledge and understanding about climate and disaster – resilient protection of critical infrastructure and financial instruments to hedge climate and disaster risks;• Good knowledge and understanding about disaster risk management and financing in Vietnam, including existing regulatory basis and institutional capacities;• Digital affinity and experience in developing and/or applying digital technologies and tools, preferably related to financing instruments;• Good knowledge about private sector landscape and engagement in the areas of climate and disaster risk financing and insurance;• Proven – working experience with and having good working relationships with governmental, ministerial, and provincial partners on climate and disaster risk protection, public asset management, financing, insurance or related topics;• Excellent English proficiency, especially in presentation and writing;• Capability to accompany and supervise multidisciplinary consultant teams;• Good teamwork and interpersonal skills;• Ability to travel frequently if required.GIZ is committed to create an appreciative work environment, irrespective of age, ethnic background and nationality, gender and gender identity, physical and mental abilities, religion and worldview, sexual orientation and social background. We ensure human resource processes live up to the diverse competencies and talents of all employees, as well as satisfy our performance expectations.What we can offer to the successful candidates:• Good working environment;• Competitive compensation and benefit packages such as contribution of all compulsory insurances, providing with the additional health care, the annual health check-up and the 24-hours accident insurance;• Covering all travel expenses with travel allowances when traveling on business;• And good policy on training and development;• And policy on flexible working time.Interested qualified candidates are invited to send the GIZ Application Form in English, copies of relevant certificates and references, either by email or by post (to GIZ Office Hanoi, 6th Floor Hanoi Towers, 49 Hai Ba Trung Street, Hanoi, Vietnam) before 29th August 2025. Note: Please state “Application for the Programme Officer on Climate and Disaster Risk Financing_DKTI" in the subject line or on the envelope. The short-listed candidates will be contacted within 4 weeks after the deadline. Telephone contact is not encouraged.Please visit our page Career Opportunities to download the GIZ Application Form and further job opportunities. To process your application, we collect and process data from you. You may read Our Data Privacy Notice, which provides further information on the data we store, and about your rights, before you continue with your application.GIZ – YOUR PARTNER FOR A BETTER FUTURE-------------As a federal enterprise, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its objectives in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development. We work in a variety of fields and support our cooperation partners in designing strategies and meeting their policy goals. GIZ Viet Nam is currently engaged in four priority areas: 1) Vocational training; 2) Environmental policy and sustainable natural resource use; 3) Energy and 4) Sustainable Economic Development. Gender equality is one of the key values of our company and of the work we do. Fostering gender equality in our project operation and our internal equal opportunity provisions are two strategic pillars of our corporate identity and policy. For further information please visit our website: www.giz.de/viet-nam. The Integrated Climate and Disaster Risk Management via Digital Risk Information and Finance Solutions Project is a technical cooperation project financed by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The project is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in close cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, the Ministry of Finance and 2 provinces in the Mekong Delta and central Vietnam. The project's objective is to improve the institutional conditions for the assessment, selection and use of climate and disaster risk financing solutions to secure critical infrastructures.The project focuses on four working areas:1. Institutional capacities to assess climate and disaster risks have been strengthened;2. Decision – makers have integrated climate and disaster risk assessments for critical infrastructures into decision – making processes;3. The regulatory basis for climate and disaster – resilient protection of critical infrastructures has improved;4. Institutional capacities for the selection and application of financial instruments to hedge climate and disaster risks have improved.