Details
  • Job Title: Advisor: Governance and Policy
  • Organization Name: GIZ
  • Location: Lahore
  • Number of Vacancies: 1
  • Gender: Any
  • Closing on: 2026-05-19
How to Apply
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Background
  • Key Responsibilities

    • Ensuring the implementation of inclusive policies and procedures in the assigned area of responsibility to avoid systematic biases or discrimination
    • Actively engage in on-going self-reflection and continues to advance their knowledge and skills related to diversity, equity and inclusion
    • Responsible for all direct and supporting activities to strengthening the respective result areas contributing to the strengthening of institutional enforcement capacities.
    • Responsible for analytic tasks as inception, operational and financial planning for the planned activities.
    • Conduct institutional assessments of existing monitoring, inspection, oversight, and compliance mechanisms at provincial level, identifying inefficiencies, regulatory burdens, and gaps in alignment with international labour, environmental, and trade-related sustainability standards.
    • Support provincial authorities in designing, institutionalizing, and operationalizing lean, risk-based enforcement mechanisms, including risk-based inspection and prioritization models, streamlined compliance procedures, coordinated inspection frameworks, performance-based monitoring systems.
    • Strengthen institutional capacity for data-driven regulatory governance by supporting the development and use of digital monitoring tools, compliance databases, and interagency data exchange systems.
    • Assist public institutions in integrating enforcement mechanisms that reduce unnecessary administrative burdens on SME while ensuring effective compliance with sustainability standards.
    • Facilitate interagency coordination between relevant provincial and federal institutions to improve regulatory coherence, avoid duplication, and enhance enforcement efficiency.
    • Support the development of operational enforcement guidelines and implementation roadmaps that translate sustainability policies into practical and enforceable procedures.
    • Design and implement targeted capacity development measures (trainings, workshops, coaching) to enhance institutional leadership, inspection practices, and oversight effectiveness.
    • Promote the adoption of measurable enforcement performance indicators and accountability mechanisms to strengthen transparency and regulatory effectiveness.
    • Contribute to monitoring and evaluation processes by tracking institutional performance improvements and enforcement outcomes.
    • Maintain continuous and structured exchange with political and administrative stakeholders to ensure ownership and sustainability of enforcement reforms.

    Knowledge Management

    • Support with knowledge management within GIZ and involvement of partners in knowledge sharing
    • Assist the communication team in developing PR material to communicate project messages
    • Assist in communicating, updating, and collecting information on the stakeholders
    • Keep updated project/programme documentation
Requirements
    • Bachelor’s degree in management, political, social, business science, economics or related fields
    • Minimum 3 years’ experience in policy implementation, preferred in the private sector development, with focus on SME
    • Minimum 3 years’ experience in areas of labour and environmental standards in public and/ or private organisations, advisory to the public institutions on federal and/or provincial level

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