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|Job title=Manager (Minigrids) - RMI Africa Energy Program
|Organisation=RMI
|City=Addis Ababa
|Country=Ethiopia
|Region=Sub-Saharan Africa
|Type of job=permanent contract
|Sector=Grid
|Application deadline=2021/05/25
|URL=https://rmi.synchr-recruit.com/job/258858/manager-minigrids-rmi-africa-energy-program
|Language of description=English
|Job description=About the Program

With an independent, objective, and fact-based approach, RMI’s Africa Energy Program works with a diverse set of public and private sector partners to solve sub-Saharan Africa’s toughest energy challenges. Fundamentally, we believe that people need and deserve access to clean, reliable, and affordable power, and that historical approaches to energy systems will not enable sustainable economic development for Africa economies in the 21st century and beyond. We are working to change that, leveraging RMI’s global platform and deeply collaborative partnerships across the range of industry stakeholders. Our team is growing, and we seek highly motivated and experienced professionals to join us in this mission.

Our program strategy and team of 20 people focus on three complementary components: 1) expanding the use of holistic energy planning and clean energy portfolios, 2) enabling distributed energy resource (DER) adoption including minigrids to expand access and save costs for stakeholders, and 3) demand-side interventions to drive efficient use of energy that enables local economic development. We act through a “think-do-scale” approach, including: (think) developing transformative business models and influential thought leadership detailing market opportunities; (do) creating partnerships to develop innovative demonstration projects; and (scale) translating results to formalize utility, investor, and development programs.

Currently, the Africa Energy Program works alongside country partners in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Malawi, with regional scaling activities that include partners across many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Since its inception in 2015, the program has also supported partners in Rwanda, Uganda, and Sierra Leone.

Application Deadline: 5pm MT on May 25th, 2021

Position Overview

We are seeking an exceptional Manager candidate to join RMI’s Africa Energy Program and help lead the development and adoption of cutting-edge solutions to support Africa’s energy transition. This posting is specifically for a Manager to help lead the Program’s work related to accelerating the adoption of minigrids and distributed energy resources (DERs) to enable access to reliable, affordable, and clean electricity. RMI has worked extensively on rural minigrids development in Africa, particularly around issues of identifying and implementing cost reduction opportunities, creating new business models, and using data to improve operations and design practices. We believe that minigrids and DERs will continue to play a dominant role in dictating the pace of energy access improvement. This is a pillar of our work in both Nigeria and Ethiopia, and we expect this position to help drive RMI’s role in the execution of the Global Environment Facility’s Africa Minigrids Program, as well as the development of community-led minigrid business models through RMI’s Sharing the Power project, and direct advisory support to minigrid developers. RMI’s Africa Energy Program is growing, and this position offers the opportunity to play a key role in helping us maximize our impact alongside that growth.

As an ideal candidate, you are a passionate, creative, accountable, and empowering leader of people and projects. You apply your deep expertise and real-world experience to develop your own ideas and solutions to the world’s energy challenges, with a focus on real-world implementation. You maintain a network of partners and collaborators who help to ground your work, and you keep up-to-date on the sector’s progress and global trends and help your teammates do the same. You are collaborative and humble in engaging with local partners to understand market needs and conditions. You don’t settle for the status quo—you actively dig deeper to understand the underlying root of problems and focus on generating new ideas and solutions to those barriers.

For this position in particular, you have deep subject matter expertise about the technical, business, and operational dynamics of minigrids and DERs in Africa, and you work with your team to develop ideas about how best to accelerate adoption. You have experience leading teams through original research, partner collaborations, and/pr client-driven projects related to renewable energy systems, deploying appropriate technologies while working with communities in emerging economies, or both. You are able to clearly and confidently explain nuanced research to both expert and lay audiences through written and verbal forms.

Managers are RMI’s primary project leaders and work closely with and under the direction of RMI’s Principals to design and execute projects. In addition, they independently lead multiple workstreams and analysis, coach junior staff to meet project goals, and participate in communications, speaking engagements, and donor-development for their Program as a whole.

Your key job responsibilities as a Manager primarily include:

Shape and execute project strategy from inception to conclusion.
Scope engagements and determine project objectives.
Develop the team’s analytical approach.
Develop stakeholder engagement approach.
Lead a team focused on accelerating minigrid and DER adoption.
Create and execute multiple workstreams.
Manage staff and timeline to ensure the delivery of high-quality outputs while maintaining positive team culture and achievable deadlines.
Structure, oversee the work of, and mentor junior team members.
Be a thought leader.
Develop hypotheses to guide work and effective ways to analyze problems.
Learn from partners and local experts to deeply understand existing and potential barriers.
Use your experience and team’s learnings to identify and implement innovative solutions.
Structure and deliver compelling presentations and written products to share insights.
Collaborate with energy sector stakeholders, including donor partners, governments, utilities, investors, developers, private companies, and customers, often acting as RMI’s primary relationship manager.
Represent RMI in external interviews, videos, and publications.
Organize and lead field visits in sub-Saharan Africa to engage communities, work directly with our partners, and gather data.
Travel up to 30%, primarily internationally.
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 |Job description=About the Program
-With an independent, objective, and fact-based approach, RMI’s Africa Energy Program works with a diverse set of public and private sector partners to solve sub-Saharan Africa’s toughest energy challenges. Fundamentally, we believe that people need and deserve access to clean, reliable, and affordable power, and that historical approaches to energy systems will not enable sustainable economic development for Africa economies in the 21st century and beyond. We are working to change that, leveraging RMI’s global platform and deeply collaborative partnerships across the range of industry stakeholders. Our team is growing, and we seek highly motivated and experienced professionals to join us in this mission.
+With an independent, objective, and fact-based approach, RMI’s Africa Energy Program works with a diverse set of public and private sector partners to solve sub-Saharan Africa’s toughest energy challenges. Fundamentally, we believe that people need and deserve access to clean, reliable, and affordable power, and that historical approaches to energy systems will not enable sustainable economic development for Africa economies in the 21st century and beyond. We are working to change that, leveraging RMI’s global platform and deeply collaborative partnerships across the
- Our program strategy and team of 20 people focus on three complementary components: 1) expanding the use of holistic energy planning and clean energy portfolios, 2) enabling distributed energy resource (DER) adoption including minigrids to expand access and save costs for stakeholders, and 3) demand-side interventions to drive efficient use of energy that enables local economic development. We act through a “think-do-scale” approach, including: (think) developing transformative business models and influential thought leadership detailing market opportunities; (do) creating partnerships to develop innovative demonstration projects; and (scale) translating results to formalize utility, investor, and development programs.
+Our program strategy and team of 20 people focus on three complementary components: 1) expanding the use of holistic energy planning and clean energy portfolios, 2) enabling distributed energy resource (DER) adoption including minigrids to expand access and save costs for stakeholders, and 3) demand-side interventions to drive efficient use of energy that enables local economic development. We act through a “think-do-scale” approach, including: (think) developing transformative business models and influential thought leadership detailing market opportunities (do) creating partnerships to develop innovative demonstration projects; and (scale) translating results to formalize utility, investor, and development programs.
-  Currently, the Africa Energy Program works alongside country partners in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Malawi, with regional scaling activities that include partners across many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Since its inception in 2015, the program has also supported partners in Rwanda, Uganda, and Sierra Leone.
+Currently, the Africa Energy Program works alongside country partners in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Malawi, with regional scaling activities that include partners across many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Since its inception in 2015, the program has also supported partners in Rwanda, Uganda, and Sierra Leone.
-Read about the Position Overview, the key job responsibilities as a Manager and more [https://rmi.synchr-recruit.com/job/258858/manager-minigrids-rmi-africa-energy-program here]
+Read about the position overview, the key job responsibilities as a Manager and more [https://rmi.synchr-recruit.com/job/258858/manager-minigrids-rmi-africa-energy-program here]
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    Currently, the Africa Energy Program works alongside country partners in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Malawi, with regional scaling activities that include partners across many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Since its inception in 2015, the program has also supported partners in Rwanda, Uganda, and Sierra Leone.
-Application Deadline: 5pm MT on May 25th, 2021
+Read about the Position Overview, the key job responsibilities as a Manager and more [https://rmi.synchr-recruit.com/job/258858/manager-minigrids-rmi-africa-energy-program here]
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