Publishing date: 11 January 2021

Location: Nigeria

Description: The role is short term and reports to Chintal Barot / Stella Odiase.

The core responsibilities of the role are to produce an Exploratory Note on Off-Grid Energy Solutions for Nigeria, that can contribute to the National Decarbonisation Plan (NDP) of the Office of the Vice President. Activities include:

• Undertaking preparation activities: developing an approach and detailed plan, gathering data through interviews, desktop research, and any other agreed means, developing a template for the Exploratory Note;
• Drafting the Exploratory Note: off-grid energy solutions using qualitative and quantitative data analysis;
• Facilitating review of the Note, processing feedback and finalising;
• Contributing to communicating with key stakeholders, including Knowledge and Communication pieces for COP26.

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Publishing date: 7 January 2021

Location: Flexible

Description: This is an exciting role launching a new business line at Odyssey. Leveraging their deep market traction and their mission to catalyze the distributed energy market in Africa, they are developing a new platform to facilitate aggregated procurement and equipment financing for components of solar mini-grids and other projects. Odyssey already have financing partners on board, and are moving quickly into implementing our first transaction.

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Publishing date: 7 January 2021

Location: Flexible

Description: This is an exciting role in the executive team of Odyssey. They are looking for someone to work side-by-side with the CEO in leading the company into its next phase. In the company’s first phase, Odyssey has become the central software platform for distributed energy financing initiatives implemented by governments, development finance institutions, and project finance facilities across four continents. Odyssey is currently managing mini-grid and solar home system financing facilities totaling more than $350 million in investment. The Odyssey platform is also the mini-grid sector’s first complete investment and asset management platform, managing data across the lifecycle of investments and enabling big data analytics of live data feeds from operating portfolios of mini-grids and other systems. Odyssey is at the center of the energy access’s most innovative impact and commercial initiatives.

In phase two, Odyssey is leveraging its cutting-edge technology to expand its product offerings, customer channels, and revenue lines – and augment the senior team to make all that happen. The President/Chief Growth Officer would focus on driving growth in existing and new verticals, leveraging Odyssey’s market traction, stellar reputation, and product advancements and identifying ways to enhance revenue, reach, and impact. This position is equally about closing deals — leading business development work for the company and growing the team to achieve Odyssey’s targets.

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Publishing date: 18 December 2020

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Description: The incumbent will drive strategy implementation, lead and develop a new business planning function br providing cohesive and comprehensive strategic planning, process management and reporting across the business. The sucessful individual must demonstrate strong previous experience in a planning function or role.

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Publishing date: 17 December 2020

Location: Kigali, Rwanda

Description: Would you like to be responsible for delivering the foundations and insights that enables forecasting, budgeting, auditing and other key process to ensure an effective financial department? Bboxx is hiring an Accounts Manager who will oversee the bookkeeping activities of the department and contribute to essential financial reporting activities.

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Publishing date: 14 December 2020

Location: Kigali, Rwanda

Description: The inventory controller develops, coordinates, implements and maintains all the procedures and protocols in regard to proper inventory management in the distribution centers for the purpose of minimizing the costs of deliveries, inventory loss with logistics teams for NGUs under Supply chain as a service.

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Publishing date: 13 December 2020

Location: Western, Kenya

Description: The job holder will be responsible for managing all d.lights sales activities within a defined geographical territory to achieve revenue targets for portables.

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Publishing date: 11 December 2020

Location: Kigali, Rwanda

Description: Be a member of a diverse team of data engineers, BI developers and data scientist as well as product owner and scrum master to monitor and optimise our ETL process to improve the performance of our BI platform;

Collaborate with stakeholders and product owner to design, build and test data pipelines to ingest data from different systems into our data warehouse to support BI and data science initiatives;

Work closely with their experienced data engineers to gain hands on experience to test, implement and maintain new architectures using different tools in the production environment to support day to day operations;

Support any data-related technical issues by working closely with other development teams and implement solutions.

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Publishing date: 9 December 2020

Location: Kigali, Rwanda

Description: The DevOps Engineer will work together with a small team to design, develop, maintain, and improve areas within the space of deployment, operations and security. 

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Publishing date: 8 December 2020

Location: Africa

Description: The Product Manager is responsible for the core of EAA’s product line. As a leader in the PAYGO sphere, their products are the first step into the homes of their customers and are a key part of the EEA customer lifetime value. The Product Manager will direct the product development process for EEA life-changing solutions and offerings.

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Publishing date: 30 November 2020

Location: Nigeria

Description: Fenix is looking for bright, highly motivated and disciplined Fenix Power Champions. They will be expected to market and sell Fenix power products to customers, engaging and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders along the way.

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Publishing date: 27 November 2020

Location: Pretoria, South Africa

Description: The Power Africa Off-grid (PAOP) Project Finance and Impact Investing Advisor is responsible for providing technical assistance support to investors and private sector companies to mobilize more private financing for energy companies and projects. This is a full-time position. Ideally the position will be based in Pretoria, South Africa, however, is open to qualified candidates based in Sub-Saharan Africa. Other countries of residence may also be considered for the right candidate. This position reports to the PAOP Cross-cutting Team Lead.

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Publishing date: 27 November 2020

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Description: GOGLA has an exciting opportunity for a motivated and ambitious Membership Administration Assistant to join their East Africa team in Nairobi. The position is well-suited for an individual who has a keen interest in the energy access space, and who is looking to strengthen their network within the sector. This is also a good opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a dynamic and international workplace.

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Publishing date: 24 November 2020

Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast (West Africa,TBD)

Description: The Strategy & Innovation Manager will be responsible for defining, together with the Head of Minigrids Zambia, the strategy of minigrid developments in Zambia, and for steering diverse innovation, technical and commercial projects. He/She will also providing the team with high-quality independent technical advice and assistance on economic and operational viability of new and existing activities within ENGIE PowerCorner Zambia. He/she will work closely with the Managing Director, Commercial Manager, Cluster managers and Financial Manager as well as the Europe-based ENGIE PowerCorner HQ team. On a high level the Strategy and Innovations Manager will also be expected to engage and The Sales Account Executive will play an important role in expanding ENGIE Energy Access’ operations into new geographic markets through the development of a Busines to Business (B2B) market entry business model by finding leads, closing sales, supporting existing clients, formulating sales strategies, and communicating product value to clients.    

Further, this role will be responsible for building and coordinating teams to expand the company’s footprint in Africa, South America and South East Asia.

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Publishing date: 16 November 2020

Location: Nigeria or Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Description: Okra is looking for a Global Business Developer to join their team full-time in Nigeria & Malaysia.

Are you experienced in business development, deal origination and pushing the envelope till the deal is done and delivered? Do you want to use those skills to create a positive impact and get energy out to the last-mile? This opportunity will give you the chance to use those skills to change the lives of millions through the development and deployment of solar electrification projects for off-grid communities.

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Publishing date: 13 November 2020

Location: West Africa

Description: Accountable to the Managing Director for originating and developing a constant flow of new projects to the stage being ‘construction ready’. This involves identifying feasible situations that offer the potential to develop and build new plants in a manner that is aligned to the company strategy and objectives, and then securing the necessary project rights to justify investment in the completion of the tasks that will result in bankable projects. The volume and nature of new projects will be defined in the business and operating plans for the company.

Working with senior colleagues, the Development Director will ensure that the full range of necessary inputs from other functions contribute to the early stages of the project lifecycle so that projects are optimised over their complete lifecycle and are undertaken in accordance with company policies and standards.

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Publishing date: 12 November 2020

Location: Arusha, Tanzania

Description: This is a consulting opportunity.

Project Pipeline:

• Responsible for project origination across the Business Units through the identification and packaging of different market-specific value propositions;
• Respond to requests for proposals (RFPs), developing and drafting project proposals for solar and solar plus storage solutions;
• Build strong relationships with project financiers;
• Responsible for negotiation with clients for EPC contracts and facilitate deal closure. 

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Publishing date: 10 November 2020

Location: Lome, Togo

Description: Bboxx are looking for a Country Managing Director or their new entity, with solid commercial and leadership experience to control and oversee all business operations, people and ventures and drive the strategic growth.

The ideal candidate will be a strategist and a leader able to steer the company to the most profitable direction while also creating and implementing high-quality strategy and business plans at the country-level. Very strong analytical and project management skills will also be essential since the MD is the one expected to deliver results and changes necessary.

The goal is to ensure the company is constantly moving towards fulfilling its short-term and long-term objectives and does not diverge from its strategic guidelines. You will be joining a team of 600+ staff across multiple offices in East Africa, China, UK, France and West Africa.

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Publishing date: 10 November 2020

Location: Nigeria

Description: Bboxx are looking for a Country Managing Director or their new entity, with solid commercial and leadership experience to control and oversee all business operations, people and ventures and drive the strategic growth.

The ideal candidate will be a strategist and a leader able to steer the company to the most profitable direction while also creating and implementing high-quality strategy and business plans at the country-level. Very strong analytical and project management skills will also be essential since the MD is the one expected to deliver results and changes necessary.

The goal is to ensure the company is constantly moving towards fulfilling its short-term and long-term objectives and does not diverge from its strategic guidelines. You will be joining a team of 600+ staff across multiple offices in East Africa, China, UK, France and West Africa.

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Publishing date: 6 November 2020

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Description: As part of the Access to Energy management team in Nigeria, and building on the Access to Energy platform support functions, the Head of Minigrids Nigeria will be responsible for the overall strategic planning and the operational, technical and sales related Engie Minigrid activity in Nigeria.

Her/his main objectives will be to grow the business in a sustainable way by playing a key strategic role in identifying and pursuing minigrid business development opportunities in Nigeria; maintain an inspiring culture; develop a competent and motivated team within an efficient organization; and coordinate with other entities in the ENGIE Group. For the scope of minigrid developments in Nigeria, he/she will entertain external relations with the host government (e.g. Ministry of Energy, Finance, Environment, Chiefs and Traditional Affairs, Agriculture and Local Government), Cooperating partners, donors, local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutions to strengthen working relationships with these entities and ensure overall success of the minigrid project. The Head of Minigrids Nigeria has overall P&L responsibility for the minigrid activities in Nigeria and will report in this responsibility to the global Head of Minigrids in A2E.

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