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About GIZ and GIZ Iraq

 As a service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, we are dedicated to shaping a future worth living around the world. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH has been working in Iraq since 2014 and has maintained a Country Office in Baghdad and Erbil since 2018. On behalf of the German Federal Government, notably the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Federal Foreign Office, as well as the European Union and the Agence Française de Dévelopment, GIZ is working in several priority areas in Iraq. GIZ supports the local governments in Federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to restore and rehabilitate the social fabric by supporting refugees, internally displaced persons, and host communities to restore their livelihoods and to improve living conditions while connecting all interventions to activities related to dealing with the past, social cohesion, and peaceful coexistence. Furthermore, interventions to create temporary and sustainable income opportunities and revitalisation of the local economy are the focus of our work. Together with our partner organisations, GIZ also promotes the employment and economic prospects for young people and to ensure that the people have better access to public services. GIZ is also supporting the decentralisation and digitalization of the Iraqi administration at federal and local level. Additionally, we strengthen the participation of women in the society and the peace process; and raise awareness on gender equality as well as Gender Based Violence. Supporting the resilience of the local government and the civil society to crisis and conflicts - also to deal with the impacts of climate change - is a cross-cutting issue. The overall objective is to strengthen the local government to provide better basic services and to promote the civil society to participate in shaping the future of Iraq.

 Project’s profile

CARP stands for “COVID-19 Adaptation and Recovery Pilot: Supporting Firms Resilience, Access to Finance and Growth in Iraq”. It is a pilot project to test mechanisms to improve the private sector finance eco-system in Iraq. The project is implemented by GIZ as the Project Implementation Unit of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Iraq.

It was conceived to learn lessons for the design and implementation of a sector-wide support programme addressing reform requirements, gaps in the provision of support to enterprise and enterprise finance over the medium term in Iraq. The initial pilot phase was planned with a duration of three years and it has 2 components:

• Component 1: Financial Inclusion; budgeted with US$4 million consisting of 2 subcomponents:
• Sub-Component 1.1 Microfinance Sector Analysis. To establish the status quo of the microfinance sector in Iraq and its requirements for liquidity support.
• Sub-Component 1.2 Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) Finance Regulation Review. To support the CBI with updating the new draft MSME regualtion notably on lending and leasing as well as providiong capacity building to the CBI non-bank financial institutions department in the areas of governance, consumer protection and supervision
• Component 2: SME-Support Measures; consisting of 2 sub-components
  • A training support voucher system, and a
  • Matching Grant system
  • Co-Investment Grants (CIG)
  • Capacity Development Grants (CDG)
  • Pre-investment Grants (PIG)
• Sub-Component 2.1 Enhancing SME and Small Growing Businesses (SGB) capabilities and resilience­ with 2 support mechanisms.
• Sub-Component 2.2 Developing the Startup Finance Eco-system with three grant systems

Your tasks  

 Through this role, the position holder is responsible for the following tasks:

• Design and establish a robust professional grant management plan and procedures to provide grants to eligible grant beneficiaries
• Responsible for the grant handling of both Component 1 and 2 grants:

•     MFI grants
•     Growth-oriented grants (two types)
•     Investment-readiness-oriented grants (three types)

• Evaluating financial proposals submitted to CARP for the different Grant schemes
• Ensuring that the administration of grants by partners/recipients is in accordance with procedures defined in the CARP Project Operations Manual
• Financial planning, monitoring and advisory services for grants in the project, including management of auditing process
• Effectively coordinating with the staff of the Finance/Admin Team of CARP in Baghdad/Erbil and at GIZ Head Office.