Working with GFA as an expert
GFA is a learning organisation – our quality and performance are based on market adaptation and staff orientation. The company’s international recognition as a dependable partner is reflected in a set of values that focus on excellence, innovation, responsibility, integrity and human resources. We set high standards for our in-house staff as well as for our external experts. GFA seeks to attract and retain people whose education, talents and commitment are among the best available. We provide our staff with the best opportunities for personal and professional development within a supportive and stimulating company culture.
Within the framework of more than 300 ongoing projects and studies worldwide, we employ experts either on a permanent basis or on an ad hoc assignment or retainer basis. In this way, we can offer tailor-made solutions to the employment aspirations of external freelance experts. In the field, external experts receive effective assistance and can rely on an experienced team of professional support staff at headquarters, offering timely, tailor-made backstopping and support services in accordance with expected performance standards.
GFA’s in-house staff have a multidisciplinary understanding of the socio-cultural, economic and political background in the project countries. This covers all technical aspects related to the work outputs, outcomes and impacts to be achieved. Organisational issues such as travel and visa arrangements, as well as financial and administrative procedures and reporting, are also handled. More complex programmes and projects, as well as framework contracts, require the identification, mobilisation and deployment of a significant number of short-term experts. To this end, GFA uses its continuously updated expert database, which currently contains over 30,000 expert profiles.
Many project countries are increasingly characterised by fragile socio-political and/or socio-economic contexts, which is why the security and emergency concerns of GFA experts are of the utmost importance. GFA has developed and applies a unique security, safety and emergency assistance system. This tool is mandatory for all GFA employees and external experts when travelling in the context of assignments abroad. It allows GFA to maintain permanent contact with employees and external experts and to intervene effectively in cases of danger or emergency.
Last but not least, thanks to its strong operational and financial standing in the market, GFA has the necessary financial means to ensure the swift and correct payment of external experts’ fees and invoices.
If you would like to become part of our pool of experts for projects and studies in development cooperation, please send your up-to-date CV in English and/or French and/or Spanish using the CV registration option below.
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