Job Description
We are looking for a committed and dynamic professional who can join the Powering Healthcare team either in our office in Abuja (Nigeria) or home-based preferably in Africa.
The Senior Specialist, Energy Access will support the project management and activity implementation under SEforALL’s Powering Healthcare program, contributing to improved sector intelligence and quality data, developing country-level strategy through Market Assessments & Roadmaps, as well as providing expertise in financial innovations in support of health facility electrification.
The successful candidate will be an experienced professional with at least 7 years of experience in off-grid energy or the energy-health nexus, including designing and implementing off-grid solar projects in energy access deficit countries. He/she should have strong project management skills, data analysis skills, stakeholder engagement skills and written communication skills.
Closing date for submitting applications is 25 August, 2022 at 23:59 CET.
Salary information: SEforALL has adopted its own salary scales corresponding to the SEforALL grading system. The minimum yearly salary for this position is USD 75,377. The actual salary offer will be determined within the scale depending on the successful candidate’s qualification and experience, and applying the principle of internal equity. In addition to the base salary, SEforALL staff receive a benefits package that includes contribution to pension, contribution to health insurance & homeworking allowance.
Duties and Accountabilities
The main duties of the role include, but are not limited to:
- Lead and/or support the development of knowledge products in support of Powering Healthcare’s objectives; knowledge products will primarily focus on global reports that aim to build out the existing data on health facility electrification as well as on innovations in business models.
- Support Powering Healthcare’s activities on data collection, analysis, and visualization, focused on (i) intervention data and heatmaps, and (ii) impact data such as improved health outcomes.
- Support in-country consultants in the development of Powering Healthcare Roadmaps and other activities. This support will take the form of providing advisory and technical support to countries/governments and their development partners on the design, implementation and monitoring of heath facility electrification programmes/projects.
- Participate in multi-stakeholder platforms, including the Health and Energy Platform of Action and the Health and the Healthcare Electrification and Telecommunication Alliance at the global level, and similar coordination mechanisms at the country-level.
- Support partnership management and donor relationships, for example through participation in multi-stakeholder platforms and by exploring new partnerships in support of the Energy Compact on health facility electrification.
- Provide technical assessments of off-grid system designs, incl. analysis of costs and appropriateness of technical solutions.
- Contribute to the analysis of innovative business models for health facility electrification, including through detailed case studies, desk-based research, stakeholder interviews, and targeted workshops and working meetings.
- Manage activity-level budgets, workplans, contracts, and reporting schedules
- Facilitate knowledge building and knowledge sharing in own work area to bring about awareness and understanding, as well as utilise SEforALL systems and process to share the knowledge. e.g. Salesforce.
- Contribute to the implementation of the Powering Healthcare communications strategy, closely liaising with SEforALL’s Communications Team, including: keeping an external-facing Powering Healthcare deck up to date, event management, speaker outreach, etc.
- Support the Powering Healthcare team with administrative support (e.g. setting up events and webinars, managing distribution lists, …).
- Other tasks and duties as may be required
The ideal candidate would have:
- Advanced university degree in energy, social sciences (policy, economics, sustainable development), or a closely related field.
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant work experience in international development, with specializations in off-grid energy or the energy-health nexus.
- Practical and relevant experience in at least one of the following areas: technical system design for off-grid solutions, or innovative business models for off-grid electrification, or development of national strategies and roadmaps.
- Practical experience designing and implementing off-grid solar programs/projects in energy access deficit countries is desirable.
- Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
- Strong project management skills, incl. managing workplans, budget, and M&E frameworks.
- Experience managing relationships with key stakeholders in the energy access field, including national Governments, development partners, and private sector actors.
- Experience delivering high-quality reports and other written products.
- Experience producing content suitable for external communication, for example social media, newsletter, articles, and website content is desirable.
- Solid command of the English language. Other languages (especially French and Portuguese, Swahili) are desirable.
- Fluency with all relevant Microsoft programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Strong organizational skills.
- Ability to handle quick-turnaround tasks alongside sustained projects.
General Competencies for the Role
- Innovation and Adaptability: Has expert skills and commitment to search for and produce innovative and creative approaches to activities. Is flexible to evolving circumstances, as well as helps others in doing so.
- Resilience and Emotional Intelligence: Has expert knowledge in the concepts of resilience and emotional intelligence. Is able to remain calm in challenging situations, to cope with setbacks, is responsive to the emotions of others and maintains a high level of performance.
- Analytical and Strategic Thinking: Has an expert level of analytical and strategic thinking skills. Gathers and processes demanding information, develops innovative solutions and contributes by representing topics/approaches in internal and cross-functional working groups/teams.
- Collaboration and Partnership: Demonstrates expert initiative and abilities to collaborate and form partnerships in own area of responsibility, across teams and externally. Builds and maintains effective relationships at all levels inside and outside the organisation. Displays team-oriented attitude contributing to creating a positive team spirit.
- Lead and Empower: Demonstrates initiative and role model behaviour in leading and empowering others. Takes responsibility for own work activities and personal actions and carries out the commitments agreed upon.
- Political and diplomatic understanding: Has an expert level of political and diplomatic understanding.
- Communicating information: Has expert skills in communicating information and uses the skills effectively in own scope of work and in others’ work.
- Research and Analytics: Has expert skills in research and analytics. Promotes the use of data within the team and to contribute to wider decision making.
- Project Management: Has expert skills in project management. Plans and organises their own work using project management tools in support of achieving the team’s objectives.
- Client Orientation / Striving for Excellence: Has expert skills in client orientation and achieving excellency in work delivery.
About the Organization
Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is an international organization working with leaders in government, the private sector and civil society to drive further, faster action toward achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which calls for universal access to sustainable energy by 2030, and the Paris Agreement, which calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to limit climate warming to below 2° Celsius.
Achieving these goals will require a radical rethink of the way we produce, distribute and consume energy. SEforALL is at the heart of this foundational shift to ensure no one is left behind. Drawing on data and evidence, we identify a critical path to success in achieving SDG7.
Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the Sustainable Energy for All initiative in 2011. Now an independent organization, we maintain close links with the UN, including through a relationship agreement, partnerships with UN agencies and with SEforALL's CEO acting as the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. These roles include advising the UN Secretary General and his staff on issues relating to sustainable energy and the implementation of SDG7 and supporting the coordination of sustainable energy issues in the United Nations system.
The ambitions of SDG7 are extraordinary. Aiming to achieve them in the context of the Paris Agreement on climate change involves transformation at a scale never undertaken before. Swift action must be taken by leaders in governments, private sector companies, institutions, financiers, development banks, unions, communities, entrepreneurs and civil society. As we enter the final decade to achieve SDG7, SEforALL has strategically chosen to strengthen global agenda-setting while expanding its activities to an engagement model that prioritizes data-driven decision-making, partnerships with high-impact countries and implementation on the ground. The new SEforALL three-year business plan outlines “results offers” that scope out our planned interventions and demonstrate to our funding partners the impact of their support. http://www.seforall.org
