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| Position: Sustainable Energy Specialist |
Location: Cairo, Egypt |
| Duration: 12 Months |
Deadline: 31 August 2017 |
GEFF -Egypt is seeking a full-time sustainable energy specialist to join the EBRD’s Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF) engineering team.
In Egypt, GEFF provides finance and advice for private sector businesses to improve competitiveness, through high performance technologies and practices.
The facility supports Egypt’s green economy transition with €140 million of financing for energy efficiency and small-scale renewable energy investments.
Companies can request from banks participating in the facility:
- technical support to develop of a green investment project,
- the finance to implement it; and
- a grant for successful completion (see eligibility).
For more information on the facility, please visit https://ebrdgeff.com/egypt/.
Duties and Responsibilities
- The Sustainable Energy Specialist will assist Beneficiaries and PFIs in identifying eligible project opportunities and assessing the technical and economic feasibility of the identified Sub-projects
- The Sustainable Energy Specialist will conduct site visit (as necessary) to support sub-projects evaluation activities and to identify additional sub-projects.
- The Sustainable Energy Specialist will conduct all necessary calculation and other engineering work to assess sub-projects’ eligibility for GEFF financing in accordance with the facility policy statement.
- The Sustainable Energy Specialist will prepare pre-assessment reports and will prepare more detailed assessment reports in cases where the sub-projects’ scope is of a larger and/or more complex nature
- The Sustainable Energy Specialist shall support marketing and PFIs capacity building if required.
Requirements
Qualifications
- University degree in Engineering or other technical discipline
- Recognized track record in delivering consultancy/technical advice or contributing/supporting investment projects in renewable energy and/or industrial resource efficiency/captive energy consultancy assignments.
- Ability to evaluate preliminary financial feasibility of projects and opportunities
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely for expert and non-expert audiences (verbal and written), including ability to communicate technical and financial aspects of EE&RE projects to diverse audiences.
- Proven track-record with the industrial sector will be considered as a strong advantage
Skills
- Fluency in Arabic and/or English (verbal and written)
- Excellent writing, public speaking and presentation skills
- Self-starter with strong organizational, and problem-solving skills, including ability to demonstrate the business case for improving energy and resource efficiency
- Results-oriented approach with demonstrated history of accomplishments
- Strong conceptual and analytical skills.
- Excellent communication skills including client relationships
- High level of computer proficiency (in particular Excel and MS Word).
- Promotes teamwork and cooperation
General terms and conditions
Tenure of Appointment
The initial appointment will be for 12 Months including a 3 months’ probation period.
Contract renewal is subject to performance, business needs and availability of funding.
Application
To apply please send the following to hr@rcreee.org with “Sustainable Energy Specialist” as a subject line:
- Detailed CV
- Cover letter highlighting relevant work experience
Deadline: August 31, 2017
Emails without a subject line will be automatically discarded.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
