GIZ Tanzania: Employment Opportunity - Advisor – Sustainable Tourism Development

As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives.

About Tanzania's Coastal Regions and the Blue Economy

Tanzania’s coastal regions, stretching 1,424 kilometres along the Indian Ocean, are a crucial part of the country's development prospects. These regions boast rich biodiversity, vital ecosystem services, and vibrant communities contributing significantly to the economy, primarily through tourism and maritime trade. They provide millions with livelihoods and food from fishing and agriculture/aquaculture. The Blue Economy (BE) is viewed by many stakeholders, including the government, as a promising sector for unlocking untapped potential, protecting natural resources, and enhancing the resilience of vulnerable coastal and marine ecosystems. This holds high hopes for promoting socially just, environmentally friendly, and even nature-positive economic growth in blue economy value chains. Achieving economic growth while protecting and conserving biodiversity requires collaborative leadership and action from governments, the private sector, civil society, and international actors at all levels. Therefore, ocean and coastal management must become more holistic, inclusive, and effective, with Tanzania focusing on developing an inclusive and sustainable blue economy (ISBE).

Project "Stawi Bluu – Sustainable Blue Businesses in Tanzania"

The project "Stawi Bluu – sustainable blue businesses in Tanzania" is jointly co-financed by the European Union (EU) and the Federal Ministry of Economic Co-operation and Development (BMZ). It is part of and contributes to the Team Europe Initiative “Blue economy for job creation and climate change adaptation” in Tanzania, and also integrates with the BMZ-funded regional program ProsperBlue.

Project Objectives:

• Promote sustainable and job-intensive businesses in the blue economy, including productive uses of marine and coastal ecosystems.
• Achieve this through establishing business incubators, promoting investment in blue economy enterprises, and facilitating access to financial products.
• Maintain an enabling environment and support mechanisms for business development and entrepreneurship (Output 2).
• Promote sustainable fishing and aquaculture practices, value addition, innovation, and technology application to create income opportunities and improve value chains, ensuring sustainable growth through environmentally friendly practices (Output 1).
• Support the transition of the coastal tourism sector to a greener, more resilient model by supporting community-led management of coastal and marine ecosystems, promoting innovative products, destinations, and attractions, and highlighting natural and cultural heritage sites (Output 3).

The project builds on experiences from the regional project ProsperBlue and can scale up approaches from the EU-funded "Go Blue" program in Kenya.

Component Lead Output 3: Sustainable Tourism Development

The Component Lead Output 3 will drive Tanzania’s transition towards a greener, more inclusive, and diversified coastal tourism sector. This involves providing strategic leadership, technical direction, and partner coordination for all activities under Output 3. The role includes leading the design and implementation of sustainable tourism interventions across multiple coastal destinations, overseeing tourism TVET reforms and workforce development, strengthening sustainability standards in collaboration with local tourism stakeholders, and guiding community-engaged destination development.

This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise in sustainable tourism, and the ability to coordinate a large network of government, private sector, development partners, and community actors.

Key Intervention Areas for the Component Lead:

1. Skills Development & Matching (TVET) in sustainable tourism
2. Coastal Destination Development and Management
3. Promotion of Sustainability Standards & Sector Greening

The Component Lead will ensure coherence with Outputs 1 and 2, lead collaboration with government, private sector, and implementing partners, and oversee national and international contracts and staff assigned under Output 3.

Responsibilities and Tasks

Core Responsibilities:

• Steering strategic and operational planning of all interventions under Output 2.3 to ensure coherent contribution to sustainable, inclusive, and diversified coastal tourism in target geographies (Mafia, Kilwa, Bagamoyo/Saadani, Pemba).
• Steering and coordinating destination development processes across the four project locations, ensuring harmonized, high-quality implementation in close collaboration with local partners.
• Establishment and coordination of multi-actor processes at both national and regional levels.
• Coordination of project implementation with implementation partners and developing synergies and cooperation arrangements with other relevant partners.
• Ensuring close collaboration with Outputs 1 and 2, particularly in areas where tourism workforce development, MSME support, and investment mobilization intersect.
• Providing technical assistance to national bodies and private sector associations on strengthening sustainability governance and sector-wide uptake of responsible tourism practices.
• Development of training and information modules and supporting their integration into national structures.
• Close coordination with political partners.
• Participating in, raising awareness among key stakeholders and the population; capacity development of different actors; establishment of data resources and research capacity development, and knowledge management.

Specific Tasks:

• Prepare technical inputs, TORs, and oversight for consultants, training providers, and implementation partners engaged in sustainable tourism development.
• Ensure effective implementation of greening and sustainability measures among tourism MSMEs, including training, advisory services, and adoption of best practices.
• Represent the project in technical working groups, dialogue platforms, and sector coordination mechanisms.
• Ensure compliance with GIZ rules and procedures in procurement, financial planning, and management of budgets related to Output 2.3.
• Review and validate technical deliverables of implementing partners, ensuring adherence to quality standards and timelines.
• Contribute to the monitoring of indicators and document results and lessons learned.
• Contribute to reporting to GIZ, the EU, and other stakeholders, ensuring timely provision of high-quality technical and financial inputs.
• Coordinate the creation of multi-stakeholder platforms for the validation of studies and identification of sustainable/innovative practices in fisheries/mariculture.
• Coordinate and supervise interventions of project activities through implementation partners and identify synergies with existing actors.
• Provide team support, technical information, and assist in coordinating key conservation actors in Tanzania.
• Foster cross-project learning and strengthen a Community of Practice for sharing best practices and lessons learned for adaptive management.
• Quality assurance/proofreading of reports prepared by the program.

Qualifications and Professional Experience

Education & Professional Experience:

• A degree in Sustainable Tourism, Development Studies, Environmental Management, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• 7 years of experience in tourism sector development, sustainable tourism, destination management, or TVET systems in Tanzania.
• 5 years of experience in project management within the development cooperation context, managing multi-stakeholder tourism programs.
• Proven experience working with government, private sector, and community structures.
• Strong understanding of tourism sector development, sustainable tourism, and destination management.
• Strong experience with coordination and creation of multi-stakeholder platforms.
• Familiarity with Blue Economy-related sectors (aquaculture, fisheries, waste management, marine transport, coastal value chains) is desirable.
• Experience with monitoring, evaluation, and learning systems.
• Strong technical writing and data analytical skills, with the ability to interpret and present information to a broad range of audiences and stakeholders.
• Good project management skills to support the development and implementation of workplans, grants, contracts, and project budgets.

Other Knowledge, Additional Competences:

• Excellent communication skills in English and Kiswahili.
• Intimate knowledge of and sensitivity to local and in-country social, economic, and political conditions and issues.
• Experience working with local communities, partners, government agencies, and the private sector.
• Ability to work independently with initiative and a strong commitment to achieving targets and meeting deadlines, even with limited daily oversight.

Application Process

Interested candidates should send applications through:

https://www.fuzu.com/jobs/advisor-sustainable-tourism-development-giz-tz

Closing date for submission: 13.02.2026.

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Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

GIZ Tanzania is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all qualified and eligible candidates regardless of their gender, origin, religion/belief, disability, or any other minority group.