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The Senior Manager needs an extraordinary capacity for program strategy, development, execution and administration, leadership of high-performing teams, expertise in clean energy market development, world-class collaboration and communication skills, a commitment to impacts and results, entrepreneurship, and a great sense of humor. 

Responsibilities Include

Team Leadership 

• Lead, mentor, and support a high-performing, multicultural team across several countries, ensuring clear delegation, accountability, and collaboration.
• Provide coaching and professional development opportunities for team members to grow in technical knowledge, leadership, and program management.
• Foster a culture of ownership, learning, and excellence, ensuring that team members are both supported and challenged to deliver their best.

Program Oversight & Execution

• Provide strategic direction and day-to-day oversight of key CEA programs, including planning, budgeting, performance management, and results reporting.
• Guide and troubleshoot implementation challenges with program managers, ensuring timely and adaptive program delivery.
• Define and evolve key programmatic metrics for impact and learning.
• Work closely with internal teams to shape organisational strategy and cross-regional collaboration.

Stakeholder & Relationship Management

• Cultivate and manage high-level relationships with energy industry CEOs, trade associations, donor agencies, and government counterparts, ensuring alignment, partnership, and buy-in.
• Navigate sensitive stakeholder dynamics with emotional intelligence, helping direct/navigate complex relationships towards shared objectives. 

Communications & Advocacy

• Collaborate with CLASP’s communications team to develop and share impactful stories, learning, and research from across CEA programs.
• Represent CLASP at industry forums, convenings, and high-level policy discussions.
• Serve as a thought leader on market development for efficient and affordable appliances and equipment at CLASP. 

Business Development

• Lead and support business development efforts, including proposal design, donor engagement, and fundraising.
• Act as a key liaison with current and prospective funders.

The Ideal Candidate

• A team leader and coach with a passion for growing others and building collaborative, high trust working environments.
• Comfortable managing asynchronously and supporting team members to work autonomously and flexibly while delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and inspire mid-level managers, supporting their growth while ensuring results.
• Skilled at navigating senior-level partnerships and managing high-stakes relationships with senior leaders and institutional leaders.
• Strategic, entrepreneurial thinker who thrives in ambiguity and builds creative, adaptive solutions to complex challenges.
• Comfortable leading multi-country programs with strong systems thinking and attention to detail.
• Brings a strong grasp of inclusive finance or market development mechanisms and a track record of managing results-oriented, equity-driven programs.
• Strong communication skills—verbal and written—with the ability to persuade and align diverse stakeholders around a shared vision.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in international program implementation; business- and partnership-development experience preferred.
• Entrepreneurial mindset to design, develop, and execute long-term initiatives.  A proactive individual who is nimble and with a strategic approach to problem-solving. 
• Persuasive communication skills, both verbal and written; exceptional written and spoken English a must. Demonstrated experience developing high-impact partnerships. 
• A systems thinker with experience in supporting clean technology companies to scale. 
• Demonstrated ability in program development and implementation in the distributed renewable energy or related sectors required, with geographic experience in Africa and South Asia, appliance or technology policy experience a plus.
• Demonstrated experience in growing and developing team members.
• Ability to work from the big picture to the small details.
• Ability to maintain composure, flexibility, and a sense of humor under tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and listening skills.

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MEL Framework Development

• Conduct a comprehensive review of the organization and program level theory of change, and Management Information Systems currently in place to capture data on performance indicators and relevant metrics. Assess the strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in data collection and reporting practices.
• Design an enhanced MEL framework that could be implemented across all programs throughout the organization. 
• The enhanced MEL framework will serve as a decision-making framework, providing learnings and feedback to programs based on indicators that are monitored and analyzed. 
• Collaborate with program managers and project teams to identify relevant indicators, data collection templates and tools, and devise practical and feasible monitoring mechanisms and systems.
• Ensure that the MEL framework aligns with industry best practices, international standards, and the organization's strategic objectives.
• Present approval for MEL framework to CLASP’s senior management, and secure approval for its adoption.  
• Monitor the quality of MEL implementation, addressing gaps and shortfalls as required.  

MEL Implementation

• Assume overall accountability for MEL implementation in a timely, robust and consistent manner across the organization.
• Champion the integration of the MEL framework in all programs within the organization, providing programs with training and support in its implementation.

Collaborate with program managers to identify program specific MEL approaches. This will include: 

• Help establish appropriate budgets, metrics, indicators and monitoring systems aligned with CLASP’s MEL framework and the specific requirements of the program,
• Support the program team monitor, collate and analyze data by establishing systems and tools,
• Provide quality control and back stopping to program teams in the implementation of MEL to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
• Establish and maintain a system for capturing, documenting, and sharing lessons drawn from MEL within the organization, and externally to the relevant community. 
• Support and back stop project teams develop reports on project outputs, outcomes and impacts that draw from the MEL framework.
• Collaborate with and support project teams identify lessons learned and best practices emerging from MEL evaluations.
• Lead communications with senior management; prepare and report MEL findings on program outputs, outcomes, impacts and learning activities to senior management, and internal or external stakeholders as requested by senior management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, preferably in business administration, public administration, economics, mathematics, statistics, international development or related field. A Masters’ degree in a relevant field is strongly preferred.
• Specific MEL training or qualification is highly desirable. 
• At least 7 years of experience in program development, monitoring and evaluation, with at least 3 years of direct experience in building and managing MEL systems, data collection, data validation exercises, and building staff capacity on MEL.
• At least 2 years of experience in managing staff and teams, preferably in a role that demonstrates the ability to work with global teams. 
• High degree of computer literacy; Excel and Word skills are essential.
• Ability to work independently on multi-task load.
• Excellent Communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to maintain composure, flexibility, and a sense of humor under tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and listening skills. 
• Demonstrated experience working in a global context, with the ability to travel to international offices and engage with team members in other countries.