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Energy Efficiency Expert – ENPI, Asia and Latin America

Energy Efficiency Expert –ENPI, Asia and Latin America
About DAI:
DAI is an employee-owned global development company. For 40 years, we have worked on the frontlines of international development, tackling fundamental social and economic development problems caused by inefficient markets, ineffective governments, and instability. Currently, DAI is delivering results that matter in some 60 countries. Our integrated development solutions turn ideas into impact by bringing together fresh combinations of expertise and innovation across multiple disciplines—crisis mitigation and stability operations, democratic governance and public sector management, agriculture and agribusiness, private sector development and financial services, economics and trade, HIV/AIDS and disease control, water and natural resources management, and energy and climate change. Our clients include international development agencies, international lending institutions, private corporations and philanthropies, and national governments.
*Objectives of the role:*
In the framework of the United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All initiative, the European Commission has launched a Technical Assistance facility to support developing countries to improve their policy and regulatory framework conditions aiming at providing attractive and enabling conditions for increased public and private investment in energy access, energy supplies, renewable energy as well as energy efficiency.
The facility DAI is recruiting for targets European neighbourhood, Asian, Caribbean, Latin America and Pacific regions.
The Energy Efficiency Expert will have overall responsibility for overseeing and delivering Energy Efficiency technical assistance packages and will be responsible to the project manager. The expert will be in charge of other non-key experts in their domains of intervention and can act as “Team Leader” for specific activity areas, in addition to being responsible for quality control. Travel will be required the partner countries.
Length of the project:48 Months
Start Date:July 2014
Qualifications and Skills:
  • 4 year University degree in energy efficiency related discipline
  • Proven communication skills (oral and written)
  • All experts must have excellent knowledge of English
  • Other languages such as French, Spanish and Russian would valuable assets
General Professional Experience:
  • Minimum requirement: At least 7 years of development cooperation experience (in areas including policy and planning) in the energy sector
Specific Professional Experience:
  • At least 3 years’ experience in assisting developing countries in energy sector policy analysis and development
  • Work experience in energy efficiency, particularly with regards to reforming the energy sector, updating national legislation/regulation and implementing pilot projects
  • Work experience in providing capacity building in energy efficiency policy and regulatory areas
  • Work experience in the identification and preparation of investment projects would be an advantage
  • Work experience in industrial and technological cooperation and in project demonstration would be an advantage
  • Work experience in the European neighbourhood, and/or Asia, and/or Latin America
Deadline for Application:20th May2014
"Please note that all profiles are indicative only and therefore subject to change once the ToR is made available."