About the position
Veritas Consulting has been shortlisted by the African Development Bank (AfDB) to provide consulting services to “Design a National-scale Mini-Grid (GMG) Acceleration Program Framework and prepare all necessary supporting documents” which is under the Africa Mini-Grid Market Acceleration Program – Component 1: Opening New Markets.
The general objective of this potential engagement is to design a set of tools, or, in other words, a framework, which can be used as a basis to develop mini-grid market development approaches in target countries. The aim is to develop a relatively standardized process to enable countries to develop their GMG markets more readily. The framework will form the basis of the AMAP support to individual countries and should be based on collating pre-existing best practice and standardized approaches where these have already been developed.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Preparation of best practice documents and TORs
- Design and develop training and guidance materials to help key local decision makers select a preferred market development approach
- An exploration of different mini-grid policy and regulatory approaches and recommend the best practices to be followed
- Preparation of inception report on different mini-grid policy and regulatory approaches
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in engineering or similar
- 10 years of design and engineering experience in the renewable energy sector with strong exposure to mini-grids and off-grid electrification
- Proven knowledge and experience of conducting detailed feasibility studies and mini-grid evaluation
- In-depth understanding of mini-grid system design, system sizing, component specifications, site selection and demand assessment
- Significant experience in preparing minimum technical requirements of mini-grid related competitive procurement procedures.
- Proven experience in project management, implementation, and supervision
- Track record of working on mini-grid projects in Africa
About Veritas
Veritas Consulting is a Sub-Saharan, African-focused management consultancy. Veritas advises private, development, and private sector facing public institutions. We are a sector–agnostic consultancy, though the current thrust of our engagements is in renewable energies and agriculture.
