Junior County Energy Planning (CEP) Consultant - Baringo County at Practical Action Kenya

Objective of the Assignment

Working under the supervision of the Project Manager and Senior Energy Consultant, the Junior Consultant will be responsible for the following duties:

• Conduct a literature review and analysis of key national and county energy policies and acts, county energy profiles, The County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP), census reports, and other such documents that serve as a basis for energy planning.
• Undertaking stakeholder mapping in the counties.
• Support primary data collection in the counties including household surveys, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions. This will include supervising field enumerators to ensure timely quality data collection.
• Support in data cleaning and preliminary analysis.
• Provide support to the county planning teams in the organization of community engagement workshops and other convening activities.
• Taking notes and minutes in technical meetings.
• Under the guidance of the Impact and Influence team, Support monitoring evaluation, learning, and communication activities.

Selection process
The bidders shall submit a technical proposal responding on the following:

• The profile and experience of the bidders including demonstration of the eligibility criteria.
• Maximum 15 pages technical concept and approach excluding annexes on how the tasks listed in the section above (section 2) shall be delivered and achieved.
• Consultant’s CV showing relevant experiences.

Requirements

• A graduate in Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Climate change, Business Development, or other relevant fields.
• Postgraduate qualifications may also be considered.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both English and Kiswahili, with the ability to conduct research and analysis as well as stakeholder engagement.
• Mandatory prior experience in similar roles through The Sustainable Energy Technical Assistance (SETA), the project of the Ministry of Energy, provides institutional capacity development support for the sustainable energy sector in Kenya.
• Mastery PowerPoint, Word, and Excel experience.

Administrative and logistical support

• Practical Action will cater for all travel, accommodation and subsistence incurred by the consultant in the course of the assignment. Any additional costs must be agreed with Practical Action in writing. This will be done in line with Practical Action policies and upon approval of costs by the Project Manager.
• Note that the payments will be done subject to the consulting entity meeting quality and timely delivery of stated task.