Job Description
Job Description
SNV is currently updating and expanding its roster of renewable energy expert CVs for use on upcoming energy projects. We are looking for experienced, proven, successful renewable energy experts for a wide range of potential tasks from providing regulatory advice to governments and utilities to understanding and building picoPV and other energy markets for rural customers. Potential future opportunities may be located in any country, have short or long durations, and may require mobilization or travel on short notice.
This advertisement is not for a specific position or role, and candidates will not be immediately contacted after submitting a CV. SNV does not commit to hiring anyone based on their CV submission. Successful applicants will enter into a pool of experts with SNV that we will reference for future global renewable energy tasks.
Experts in the following fields are encouraged to submit CVs:
Regulatory Advisors:
- Electricity Market Experts
- Rural Electrification Agency Advisor
Renewable Energy:
- Efficiency Experts
- Sustainability Advisors
- Climate Change Experts
- Energy/Sustainability Experts
- Hydro, Wind, Solar (picoPV, Solar Home Systems, etc.), Biomass, Biodigester, Geothermal, Fuel Cell, and/or Mini-Grid Experts
- Climate Finance Experts
- Improved Cookstove Experts
Qualifications
DESCRIPTION: Renewable Energy Expert
The following bullets are a representative sample of the kinds of future work we anticipate. This list is subject to change based on actual future requirements, if any. We do not anticipate that any one individual will be able to perform all of these representative tasks.
- Providing expert advice on mainstreaming renewable and sustainable energy guidance into country government policies, plans, and budgets.
- Providing technical assistance to base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) market development projects, with a focus on business development advisory services for last-mile distribution enterprises, consumer and enterprise financing, and rural and social marketing.
- Providing institutional and capacity support to the energy policy and project implementers, including public institutions, implementing country national and local governments, community based organizations, grass root institutions, and the private sector.
- Providing guidance and implementation assistance for Off-Grid Renewable Energy market development with an emphasis on consumer awareness, private sector development, and creating an enabling environment for small-scale renewable energy markets.
- Assessing and coordinating financial requirements across the off-grid renewable energy supply chain (including consumers), and engage with local financial institutions to develop financial products (for both businesses and retail customers)
- Technical assistance in the preparation of energy investment projects: developing technical, environmental and economic capacities to design energy studies, programs and projects, including knowledge to mobilize financing options.
- Developing the technical and operational capacity of government energy policy staff, particularly with regard to planning and development of rural energy projects as well as attracting, managing, and leveraging donor and private sector resources.
- Building, strengthening, and managing relationships with governments, key partners, institutions and stakeholders.
- Preparing renewable energy training materials for public institutions, implementing country national and local governments, community based organizations, grass root institutions, and the private sector.
PROFESSIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- At least a post-graduate university degree in a relevant field (development economics, sustainable energy systems, renewable energy, sustainable energy engineering, climate change, energy policy, climate finance, or similar). Masters and PhD holders (or international equivalents) are strongly encouraged to apply.
- At least 10 years of relevant professional experience in expert advisory roles related renewable energy for international development (see list of relevant fields above).
- Willingness to travel internationally and work in rural environments.
- Proven ability to cultivate consensus, multitask, and be flexible and responsive to quickly changing demands.
- Proven experience advising international development projects, utility companies, and/or local governments in developing countries.
- Fluency in professional English is required. Fluency in French, Portuguese, Spanish, or a local dialect in a developing country is considered an asset;
Additional Information
Application & Selection Process
Please send the following documents along with your application:
- CV, including name and contact details of 3 references who may be contacted by SNV, including a referee of an assignment of which the proposal was unsuccessful.
Applicants will not be contacted unless they are selected for a future opportunity. SNV makes no guarantees regarding the number, duration, or location of potential future opportunities, and reserves the right not to contact anyone who has submitted a CV in response to this ad. Qualified applicants will be included in SNV’s pool of renewable energy experts and will be considered for future opportunities.
Duty station
Global opportunities.
Contract type and duration
Short- or long-term consultancy contract, or potentially for full-time staff positions.
Application deadline:
January 1, 2018
How to Apply?
Please apply through our in-house recruitment system before 01 January 2018.
About the Organization
SNV is a non-profit international development organization established in the Netherlands in 1965. For more than 50 years, SNV has been at the forefront of development, helping to build local capacity and empower families and communities to break the cycle of poverty. We operate in 38 developing nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America and employ innovative, market-led poverty alleviation in Agriculture & Food Security, Renewable Energy, and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH). Our more than 1,000 advisors in the field come from a variety of cultural and technical backgrounds, and more than 80 percent are nationals of the countries where we work. SNV USA is the organization’s United States-based 501(c)(3) affiliate connecting North American partners to SNV’s implementation capacity around the world.
For more information, please visit: www.snv.org.
