Senior Advisor

5 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa Scatec Full time

Overview:
Want to join a frontrunner in renewable energy that is actively seeking early entry into new markets globally? Since the establishment in 2007, Scatec has acquired extensive knowledge and experience in developing, building, and operating solar, wind and hydro power plants and storage solutions. Driven by our company values and competent global workforce, we aim to deliver competitive and sustainable renewable energy globally; protect our environment and improve quality of life through innovative integration of technology; and create shareholder value. We are present on four continents and are headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

Are you passionate about driving strategic direction and maximizing development impact in communities? As a **Senior Advisor: Social Investments **at Scatec, you'll be at the heart of our mission, shaping our impact strategy, managing large partnerships, and refining investment measurement in South Africa.

**Main purpose of the position**

We're looking for an experienced** Social Investments** specialist to joing our global team in Cape Town, South Africa to be part of our global team working together towards our vision - **Improving our future.**

**Your Impactful Role**:

- ** Strategic Leadership**: Shape and promote Scatec’s community investment strategy to ensure sustainable development.
- ** Partnership Building**: Cultivate and maintain strategic partnerships, ensuring a steady flow of impactful community programs.
- ** Project Leadership**: Oversee the design and implementation of Socio-Economic Development, Enterprise Development, and Trust Projects, from proposal to strategic approval.
- ** Risk and Opportunity Management**: Work with E&S colleagues to identify risks, opportunities, and conduct socio-economic assessments.
- ** Impact Measurement**: Develop frameworks to track performance and ROI, analyzing data to measure program effectiveness.
- ** Compliance and Reporting**: Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly, and annual reports as required, ensuring compliance with all obligations.
- ** Economic Development Planning**: Submit annual plans and manage project budgets, optimizing resource allocation for maximum impact.
- ** Stakeholder Communication**: Create detailed reports and presentations for lenders and stakeholders.
- ** Global Collaboration**: Contribute to Scatec’s global community investments network.
- ** Team Leadership**: Inspire, develop, and lead a small team of experts.

**Qualifications and competencies**
- University Degree or equivalent and/or valid qualification in Social or Environmental Sciences
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in development, development consulting or the private sector, ideally with both academic and implementation/fieldwork experience
- Proven experience in developing and overseeing community level programs in areas such as Education, Skills Development, Social Welfare, Healthcare and SMME Development
- Solid project management experience, including coordination of multiple stakeholders and working with senior stakeholders.
- Proven experience building and maintaining large scale partnerships.
- Ability to work in a multinational organization.
- Knowledge in data collection/field gathering information.
- Proven Financial administration experience.
- Solid Microsoft Excel and Power BI experience

**Personal characteristics**

It is part of every employee’s terms of reference to contribute to Scatec's vision: Improving our Future and adhere to our company values which are:

- ** Predictable**: demonstrate clear communication and listening skills, shares information in an open and honest way
- ** Driving results**:demonstrate determination, pro-activeness, can prioritize and work independently.
- ** Changemaker**:demonstrate entrepreneurship, can challenge, fast learner, take initiates and adjust.
- ** Working together**:demonstrate teamwork, shares responsibilities, can compromise, has a can-do attitude.

**For this particular role we also expect**:

- Strategic monitoring and evaluation (M&E) skills of economic development impact, including using data to drive key impact decisions.
- Point of contact with the Department of Energy (DoE) (IPP Office) on economic development obligations and programmes in close collaboration with Asset Management (AM)
- High-level stakeholders in local Government and in municipalities, NGOs, local stakeholders, and other relevant entities to foster partnerships.
- Internal stakeholders: Asset Management, Compliance, O&M, Supply Chain, Solutions, E&S Managers and CLOs, Communications
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage with a variety of stakeholders.
- Strong research, data collection, data analysis and visualization skills.
- Self-motivated, and can work independently to manage a wide range of work.

**Why Scatec**:
Scatec is an exciting, innovative, and ambitious company at the forefront of a growing industry. By joining our team, you’ll be part of a flexible, div

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