Productive and Social Use Team Lead

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa Abt Associates Full time

**The Opportunity**

Abt Associates seeks a qualified Senior Technical Advisor for the USAID Power Africa ESA project. The position will be based in South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, or Mozambique and is contingent upon project award.

The anticipated five-year, USAID-funded Power Africa Empower Southern Africa (ESA) project will support and assist USAID partner countries in Southern Africa to increase the availability of and access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity in the region to connect more users to electricity on the grid and beyond the grid; support cleaner electricity generation delivered by the grid and accelerate distributed renewable energy; and work with target governments to improve the enabling environment for energy sector investment and innovation. Toward these ends, it is anticipated the project will be structured to include but will not be limited to, the following objectives or tasks:

- Addressing energy poverty and access
- Promoting and linking to productive uses of off-grid power, especially SMEs
- Developing and implementing new business models for DRE
- Stimulating power demand to match supply
- Supporting an improved policy and regulatory enabling environment
- Driving the energy transition from coal and diesel to RE
- Facilitating financing for energy companies, corporations, and productive uses
- Increasing power supply and grid-based power connections
- Strengthening utilities and other power sector entities
- Increasing regional power trade

**Core Responsibilities**
- Provide technical leadership in delivery of expected results in the Southern Africa region.
- Manage, supervise, and coordinate technical services, prioritize the activities in target countries, and provide thought leadership and technical support as needed to accelerate activities.
- Regularly liaise with the Power Africa Coordinator’s Office, USAID missions in the region, and other USG agencies, as appropriate.
- Design and execute strategies to achieve Power Africa and USAID Mission desired outcomes and minimum results, including the development and execution of task order workplans.
- Oversee a team of experts in Southern Africa working to advance to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy services in the region, while expanding the productive use of energy across the human-service sectors.
- Establish partnerships and maintain strong relationships with relevant national and regional stakeholders, including multilateral institutions, private sector companies, host country governments, non-government organizations, and other key partners.
- Respond to quick-turn requests in a fast-paced setting.

**What We Value**
- Bachelor’s degree in economics, energy/environmental policy, engineering, or related field and minimum of 15 years of experience working with energy sector programs, particularly in the power sector OR Master’s degree and at least 12 years of relevant experience.
- Experience working in the energy sector in Southern Africa is required, including at least 3-5 years involved in planning, developing, and financing on
- and off-grid renewable electricity projects.
- Experience supporting governments, the private sector, communities and/or NGOs to increase power supply, increase grid-based power connections, strengthen the capacity of utilities and other energy providers, increase regional power trade, and expand on and off-grid energy access, including through deploying distributed renewable power targeting productive uses.
- Experience working in a fast-paced setting, convening technical/management teams, and responding to quick-turn client requests with high-quality deliverables.
- Experience with gender equity and social inclusion or women's empowerment in energy focused programming.
- Demonstrated knowledge of applicable national and regional policies, regulations, and programs currently in place in Southern Africa to finance and drive the expansion of utility-scale renewable energy, distributed energy systems, mini-grids, and other clean energy resources.
- Demonstrated knowledge of, and experience working to overcome, the barriers and primary challenges to clean energy development in Southern African countries.
- Ability to build effective relationships with peers, supervisors, clients, and stakeholder s.
- Fluency in English is required; experience in a second language is preferred.
- Southern Africa nationals are encouraged to apply.

**What We Offer**

We foster an environment where you can Thrive Your Way. Our innovative total rewards programs are designed to help balance your work and personal life. The approach toward your wellbeing centers around comprehensive benefits, flexible schedules, and professional development.

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