TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Research, Analysis & Insight Generation
Conduct research on productive use of energy (PUE), agriculture-energy linkages, livelihoods, digital economy opportunities, and related sectors.
Support development of market assessments, diagnostic summaries, landscape reviews, and country briefs.
Analyze programmatic data and evidence to inform strategy, learning, and decision-making.
Prepare concise insight notes, presentation slides, talking points, and briefing materials for senior leaders.
Support to Strategy & PUE Center of Excellence Implementation
Assist in translating the E&O strategy into tools, templates, and operational documents.
Contribute to mapping and analysis of sector initiatives including partners and opportunities for strategic partnerships, innovative pilots, financing instruments and other energy and opportunity related initiatives.
In collaboration with the Data Manager, apply advanced data analytics to support market assessments, trends analysis, and the generation of robust, evidence-based insights that will support impact monitoring and measurement or the CoE.
Support the development of CoE knowledge products, handbooks, toolkits, case studies, and learning briefs.
Help coordinate cross-team inputs for CoE deliverables, country pipelines, and mission objectives.
Program Delivery Support
Provide hands-on support to regional E&O teams on day-to-day program management activities including partner coordination and management, reporting and synthesis of lessons learned to ensure timely delivery of high-quality outputs.
Track progress across pilot initiatives and help manage project dashboards, timelines, and reporting materials.
Partnership & Stakeholder Coordination
Support the Manager and Director in preparing materials for partners, donors, government meetings, and coalition engagements.
Draft meeting notes, follow-ups, and partnership summaries to maintain clear communication and alignment.
Help coordinate with internal teams (Impact, Regional Teams, Comms) on cross-functional tasks.
Communications, Learning & Knowledge Management
Support the documentation of lessons learned, success stories, and best practices from country programs.
In collaboration with the programs and communications teams, assist in the development of knowledge pieces, social media content, evidence summaries, and storytelling materials.
Help maintain the E&O knowledge library, shared repositories, and internal learning systems.
Assist in designing and organizing learning sessions, workshops, peer exchanges, and technical webinars.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree required. Current or recent post-graduate students studying social sciences or a research-based degree will be considered an added advantage.
At least 2 years of relevant experience in energy, agriculture, development, consulting, applied research, gender transformative development, impact investing, or similar fields.
Strong research, analysis, writing skills and ability to prepare high-quality presentations and briefs.
Familiarity with renewable energy, productive use of energy, agricultural value chains, enterprise development, or sustainable livelihoods will be considered an added advantage.
Demonstrated experience in data analytics, including the ability to manage, clean, and analyze large and complex datasets, as well as developing interactive data visualizations and dashboards will be considered an added advantage.
Comfortable working in fast-paced, mission-driven environments and with diverse global teams.