Overview
The role involves appraising, reviewing, and adjusting project proposals, ensuring consistency with priorities and resources, and leading the project management of supported projects. The purpose is to accelerate the commercialization of innovative clean energy technologies in developing countries.
Key Responsibilities
- Appraise, review and adjust project proposals.
- Formulate and present proposals for final review and approval.
- Develop and obtain approval for expanding the A2D Facility.
- Ensure robust and regular internal reporting, record-keeping and external dissemination of activities, publications and results.
- Collect and verify data and information from supported projects.
- Feed into quarterly meetings with the donor and provide updates.
- Locate and analyze specific economic, environmental and social data.
- Identify, describe and justify project possibilities.
- Organize relevant events, workshops, webinars, side events, presentations and other outreach activities.
- Lead the project management of new and existing supported projects.
- Develop a strong understanding of wider landscape on multilateral and bilateral international and regional initiatives.
- Develop a strong understanding and robust networks of wider existing and planned projects, programmes, initiatives, workstreams, events, workshops and other activities.
- Support Facility-wide activities, briefings, documents, strategies, events, workshops and network-building.
- Perform any other duties and assignments as requested.
Required Experience
- At least five (5) years of professional experience in technical cooperation project management or portfolio project management of climate-related or innovation-related projects, including some exposure at the international level, is required.
- Experience in technical cooperation project management or portfolio project management in developing country contexts, and in evaluating the needs, conditions and problems in developing countries, is desirable.
- Knowledge and experience in the thematic areas-of-focus of the A2D Facility, such as clean hydrogen, industrial decarbonization, smart energy or critical minerals, or related areas such as sustainable cooling and transport decarbonization, is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in fields that include climate, energy, environmental management and assessment, engineering, social sciences or other relevant discipline is required.
