Applications are open for Paid Internship at GIZ, Germany in the Sector Project (SV) “Sector Consulting Education”. Education is one of the key areas of German development policy. Overcoming educational poverty in the partner countries will make a decisive contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. A well-educated population is a basic prerequisite for poverty reduction, sustainable economic growth, social development, good governance, a sense of democracy and civic engagement. At the same time, education is a human right that allows every individual to participate in the social, cultural, political and economic life of his or her country.
You work in the Sector Project (SV) “Sector Consulting Education”. The main task of this project is to support and represent the position of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on education in development cooperation at all levels of German and international development policy. 
The SV addresses key issues 

• policy issues and cross-sectoral issues
• Multilateral subject areas
• advanced basic education
• higher education and science. 

All core topics of the SV are closely interwoven in the sense of a holistic education system strengthening. Furthermore, the SV “Education” with the SV “Vocational Education” strongly networked. In addition to German implementing organizations, partners and actors of cooperation include German and international universities and scientific institutions as well as international institutions and networks (eg Global Partnership for Education). Typical activities of the SV include organizational, process and policy advice on the above-mentioned topics, detailed research and preparation of background papers, speeches and studies on selected educational aspects, as well as the organization of events.