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Global Energy Transition East Africa Lead



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Job Summary


We are looking for an experienced professional to join the Africa Program for the Global Energy Transition Initiative at ClimateWorks Foundation.

This position’s primary role is to support the country-level partnership and grant-making strategy development and lead strategy implementation for East Africa, especially Kenya.

This position will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the East Africa partnerships, executing East Africa workstream strategy, developing grantee pipelines, and collaborating and coordinating with other regional energy transition works under Global Energy Transition Initiative.

Required Qualifications

  • 12+ years of professional experiences in climate policy in the energy sector in the developing economies.
  • Savvy about the dynamics between political, government policymaking, business and financial community, and civil society in energy sector decarbonization.
  • Strong Stakeholder and partnership development skills.
  • Strong East African stakeholder network, with a solid reputation in the field.
  • Easily adaptive in a dynamic and changing landscape of energy and climate actions.
  • Commitment to building an inclusive and collaborative working culture.
  • Ability to work effectively and efficiently (both virtually and in-person).
  • Willingness to work in a hybrid and virtual team.
  • Master’s degree in a related field such as public policy, government relations, economics, or business administration, experiences with energy infrastructure investment, private sector and financial industry experience is a plus.

  • Responsibilities

    Essential Responsibilities

    Develop East African Strategy and Lead Implementation

  • She/he will develop on multi-year Africa energy transition strategy development, with a focus on East Africa countries, including Kenya, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda.
  • Stay adaptive and agile to the strategy implementation, taking into account the dynamic of political, economic and technological opportunities exposed to the priority countries.
  • Foster the strategic synergies and collaboration with other regional/country energy transition under Global Energy Transition Initiative and other ClimateWorks Foundation Initiative.
  • Collaborate with Global Energy Transition Initiative team across ClimateWorks and Bloomberg Philanthropies

  • Collaborate on strategy development with the Director of Africa Program, in consultation with Bloomberg Philanthropies.
  • Advise Bloomberg Philanthropies on political, economic, industrial and technology developments and trends that are pertinent to energy transition in East African countries.
  • Lead philanthropic energy transition collaboration efforts across ClimateWorks, Bloomberg Philanthropies and other philanthropic organizations to make collective impact in East Africa’s just energy transition.
  • Build Partnerships and Engage Stakeholders

  • Explore new partnerships with global, regional and country-level organizations and regranting organizations to support the East Africa Energy Transition
  • Cooperate with ClimateWorks China office to identify synergies and collaboration opportunities in the clean energy development and investments in East Africa countries.
  • Identify strategic programmatic cooperation scope with Bloomberg Philanthropies’ regional leads on Global South stakeholders (Civil society organizations, businesses, and governments) and partners on clean energy investments in East Africa that will ultimately benefit African communities and people.
  • Convening, coordination and collaboration with a wider range of stakeholders, including the national governments, Multilateral Development Banks, development partners and embassies of donor countries in East Africa’s energy transition.
  • Provide thought-leadership to senior-level stakeholders on climate mitigation, energy transitions for East African countries’ economic development.
  • Grant-making, pipeline development and portfolio management

  • Identify new/prospective grantee partners, and develop grantee pipelines.
  • Manage the East Africa energy transition grantee partners, initiate grant scope discussion, consult with Africa Program Director of the Global Energy Transition Initiative, and Bloomberg Philanthropies on grant-making strategy and decisions.
  • Collaborate with the Global Energy Transition Initiative Director and grant management team during the grant-making process, including initiation of the grant invitation, request for proposal, review and comment, to regular reporting.
  • Provide on-going interaction, including strategic guidance to East African grantees and partners during the grant execution period.

  • Required Skill Profession

    Other Management Occupations



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