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Mercy Corps is a global humanitarian aid agency engaged in transitional environments that have experienced some sort of shock: natural disaster, economic collapse, or conflict.
The Position
The job holder will be part of our African Programmes and Advisory team, which includes professionals from a range of private sector backgrounds, including engineering, project development, entrepreneurship, banking and investment, micro-finance, and management consulting. They will help implement different energy access programmes, work with our donors and sub-contractors, advise MSMEs, and support E4I team members in programme implementation.
Essential Responsibilities
- Work closely with Programme Managers and support them by doing data analysis, market research, reporting, as well as client engagement and communication.
- Help to develop Mercy Corps internal processes and knowledge of technologies, business models, regulatory issues, financing processes, etc.
- Deliver high quality work, with attention to detail and a focus on results.
Advisory responsibilities
- Support in providing analytical advice in engineering, business or finance to early and later stage SME companies, including solar home system distributors, mini-grid developers, stand-alone solar appliance suppliers and other service providers.
- Provide support to SME clients on their business models, partnership facilitation, project development, investment readiness, financial modelling and capital raising.
- Work closely with the Monitoring and Evaluation team to ensure expected results for advisory activities are measured and evaluated.
- Support development of internal processes and institutional knowledge of energy access financing, business models, regulatory issues etc.
- Support data management, analysis and presentation for external and internal knowledge management.
- Conduct market studies and research for SME clients, donors and internal knowledge generation, including desk research, primary and secondary research.
- Stay up to date on market news, regulations, and trends in the field of energy access and productive use of electricity in Africa.
- Support the Programmes and the Business Development team in preparing bids, concept notes and proposals for donors consistent with the objectives and requirements of the potential donor.
Supervisory Responsibility
Accountability
- Reports Directly To: Programme Manager
- Works Directly With: Global Director of Advisory, Regional Head of Programmes
Minimum Qualifications & Skills
At least 2 - 4 years’ experience in at least one of the following areas:
- Energy project implementation, operations, or financing;
- Financial advisory, management or strategic consulting;
- Marketing or technical support for agricultural and other electric appliances used for income generating purposes;
- Renewable energy development in a humanitarian setting; or
- Early-stage business building as an entrepreneur, investor or incubator
- Research and data analysis in the development sector
- Experience working with rural and off-grid business models and an understanding of the unique challenges faced by businesses operating in Africa
Academic and Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Business Management, Economics, Finance, International Development, Energy, Environment, Climate Change or other relevant subjects
Success Factors
- Strong research, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to understand the off-grid market, preferably in an African context
- Ability to understand the entrepreneurial space and impact investing sector
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to write high quality written documents, strong ability to work in power point a firm advantage.
- Ability to critique and develop financial models is highly desirable
- Fluent English a must
- Fluent French an advantage
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