Copy Young Professional Program

Many of today’s outstanding permanent staff members were recruited as young professionals. The inflow of young talent with fresh ideas and great dedication reflects GFA’s attention to performance, innovation, credibility and quality. Staff selection therefore aims at recruiting the very best and committing them to the company.

Our GFA Young Professional Program is an internal program designed for suitably qualified graduates of development related disciplines, who have a desire to contribute to our development work in countries worldwide. The Program offers unique opportunities for young professionals to work for GFA at our head offices in Germany and in one of our projects overseas. This enables them to develop the skills and acquire the experiences needed to become professional consultants in development cooperation. The next step in a young professional’s career with GFA typically is a long-term project assignment.

The statements by GFA's young professionals below may tell you more about the Program.

If you are interested to start a career with GFA by joining our Young Professional Program, you should meet the following requirements:

• hold an EU work permit and residence permit
  
• an excellent university degree with technical relevance to GFA’s main business areas is a must, a background in economics is desirable
• postgraduate studies, a Ph.D. or first professional experiences related to the field of development cooperation
• German language skills, fluency in English, good working knowledge in either French, Spanish, Portuguese or Russian
• Social competence, team and communication skills.

Please submit your online application to our recruiting department by filling in the application form under CV Registration or by sending your CV to recruiting@gfa-group.de. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Registered young professionals may also subscribe to our RSS Feed so they will receive e-mail alerts about employment opportunities and news items when these are newly published on the GFA Website.

“I particularly value the professional development aspect of the Program. Not only do I participate in courses and seminars on project management tools as well as training and moderation techniques, but I also draw on a personal mentor. He provides me with career-oriented advice and support so I feel guided along my path towards becoming a successful development cooperation consultant”.

Stéphanie Wies

"In my view, GFA`s Young Professionals Program offers an ideal combination of in-house training, practical fieldwork and day-to-day consulting business. It provides a unique opportunity to get involved in a great variety of thematic and regional peculiarities. The frequent exchange of experiences among young professionals certainly creates the Program’s  very social nature“.

Jan Prothmann

"I like the constructive environment of the GFA teams as we learn a lot from each other due to our different backgrounds and experiences. While we all focus on our professional skills, I appreciate the mix of communication, technical and managerial tasks we are challenged with. The last 17 months with GFA have truly advanced my career”.

Kathrin Schmitz