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Deputy Director Sustainable Energy
Deputy Director Sustainable Energy
- South Africa
- the just and fair transition to clean energy,
- renewable energy,
- energy efficiency, and
- sustainable energy access.
Underlying all of these actions is the objective of reducing inequalities and ensuring that the transition to sustainable energy is just and fair. This position is well-suited for an individual that is acknowledged as a leader in the fields listed above, while also possessing strong leadership, staff mentoring and business development acumen.
This position is based in Cape Town, South Africa. Candidates, via their applications, should provide evidence of the following experience:
- A strong network and having led collaboration with multi-sectoral stakeholders to unlock
scaled actions related to sustainable energy in Africa.
- Proven expertise in leading the planning, initiating, management and execution of a
number of multi-year and multi-country projects and programmes, being run simultaneously and with multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Strong business development skills, with proven track-record of developing projects and
programmes that are funded, implemented and scaled.
- Proven experience harnessing strategic partnerships for increased direct benefit of
projects and programmes for multiple target audience(s), scaling the interventions for wider and deeper impact, and multiple streams of work in partnership with donors and beneficiaries.
- Ability to review highly technical documents and outputs, ensuring high quality delivery
on-time and within budget.
- A history of leading stakeholder trainings and facilitating high-level and innovative events – both in-person and remotely – in the domain of sustainable energy.
- Ability to speak to and write up cutting-edge thought pieces related to the field of
sustainable energy.
- Experience in unlocking finance for urban sustainable energy projects and programmes.
- Exceptional people management skills and mentoring of highly qualified team members.
- Ability to drive strategy development for maximum impact.
Requirements of this position:
- Relevant postgraduate degree in science, engineering, energy studies, urban
development, economics, climate change, or a qualification from an equivalent numerate discipline.
- At least 10 years of work experience (post studies) managing projects, programmes and
initiatives; overseeing teams delivering outputs with high quality and within budget and set deadlines, with significant benefit to stakeholders.
- Excellent people and team management skills, and ability to inspire and lead staff
members, as well as ensure that service providers procured to deliver work do so with exceptional quality, on time and within budget.
- Recognition as a thought leader in the field of sustainable energy.
- Strong aptitude for working with, understanding and implementing contracts, and their
accompanying procurement rules and budgets (excellent proficiency in Microsoft Excel), with strong attention to detail.
- Excellent analytical and succinct writing skills.
- Excellent public speaking and facilitation skills.
- High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Office programmes, especially Excel, Word and
PowerPoint.
- Strong diplomacy skills and ability to engage professionally and diplomatically with high- level political and technical officials at all levels within the public and private sector.
- Ability to lead teams that play a knowledge broker/intermediary role between
government officials and their counterparts in other sectors, to bridge divides and overcome barriers to scaled sustainable energy action.
- Significant experience in sustainable energy planning, implementation of such plans
(including unlocking finance to do so), monitoring and evaluation of impact, with reflection for continuous learning and improvement.
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively within Africa and internationally.
- Innovative and agile individual with a ‘can do’ attitude who can think on her/his feet,
show initiative and drive, and harness well-established networks to further build ICLEI’s good reputation and networks across Africa and internationally.
- Proficiency in French, Swahili and/or Portuguese (in addition to English) will be an added advantage
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