Project Manager – ENPI, Asia and Latin America
Project Manager –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 two facilities DAI is recruiting for targets European neighbourhood, Asian, Caribbean, Latin America and Pacific.
The Project Manager will be required to oversee the project that will support the targeted developing countries to improve their policy and regulatory framework conditions aiming at providing attractive and enabling conditions for the increased public and private investment in energy access, energy supplies, renewable energy as well as energy efficiency. In particular, the Project Manager will have to ensure the overall delivery of the project whilst maintaining regular contact with the Energy Unit C5 of the Directorate General for Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid, and the concerned EU Delegations, and the relevant regional bodies. Some travel will be required to Brussels and to partner countries.
Length of the project: 48 Months
Start Date: July 2014
Qualifications and Skills:
- 4 year University degree in business administration or a 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:
- 12 years of project management and coordination experience
- Experience in organising seminars and workshops
Specific Professional Experience:
- 3 years’ experience of project management and coordination (with project leader/manager/coordinator capacity) in development cooperation and in the energy sector
- Experience in managing multi-country technical assistance projects in energy access, renewable energy or energy efficiency will be an advantage (for the purpose of this tender a ‘multi-country technical assistance project’ is a technical assistance project taking place in at least six countries simultaneously)
- Work experience of projects involving energy sector policy reforms increasing access to modern and sustainable energy services in developing countries would be an advantage
- Work experience with the EU rules and procedures would be an advantage
- Work experience in the European neighbourhood, and/or Asia, and/or Latin America
Deadline for Application:20th May 2014
"Please note that all profiles are indicative only and therefore subject to change once the ToR is made available."
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