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      VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

       A. 

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B. Project Background

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is working on behalf of the German Government in more than 130 countries around the globe. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has entrusted GIZ with the responsibility for implementing the German contribution to the “Indo-German Energy Programme – Implementation of Energy Plans”. The project “Implementation of Energy Plans” aims to improve the conditions for the planned implementation of renewable energies (RE) as a contribution to India's climate protection efforts in selected Indian states. GIZ will support three state governments in developing concrete strategies for targeted RE implementation, conduct target group specific training courses for Indian government officials on RE and collect recommendations for improving policies, regulations and programmes from stakeholder engagement processes. Further, political decisionmakers and government officials will be made aware of innovative approaches to gender responsive RE promotion. The project duration is three years from April 2024 until March 2027.

The candidate will be responsible for the output Policy and Regulation aspects of the project as well as for managing technical training and capacity building aspects of the project Implementation of Energy Plan.

C. Responsibilities

• To support relevant government partners/agencies (both at national and state level) with policy support and technical advice for conceptualizing, designing and implementing RE Plans.
• To assess (the need), design, manage & monitor suitable training and capacity building initiatives for GIZ’s partner/stakeholder
• To manage/co-ordinate day-to-day activities necessary for partner/consultant/stakeholder engagement, co-ordination and management to achieve the project goals and ensure project outcome/impact.
• To advocate, design and roll-out gender-inclusive approaches for RE promotion.
• Ensuring excellent communication flow of information with the project partners, partner ministries, within the project, GIZ India office, head office in Germany and all offices with which regular contact is maintained.
• Any other tasks as and when decided by project manager and project team.

D. Core Scope of Tasks

      1. Professional Advisory Services

• Providing technical know-how in (renewable) energy policy/regulation, RE ecosystem development and DRE applications focusing on socio-economic development.
• Provide holistic (including technical) understanding about the RE market development, such as policy advocacy, deployment programs/schemes, RE integration, investment/business models etc. for deploying DRE/RE at scale.
• Collecting, compiling, analyzing, and consolidating data and research relevant to various RE/DRE landscape in state energy system.
• Technical review and quality assurance of deliverables from national and international consultancy teams and implementing partners.
• Supporting the monitoring of project results, usage of GIZ specific management instruments and documentation and communication of project activities.

    2. Networking and Cooperation

• Formulates project action plans/activities and helps synchronize the planning and budgeting system with partners' mechanism and systems.
• Supports the implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation, communication, and documentation of the project.
• Undertaking partner’s/stakeholder’s dialog in accordance with project requirements.

   3. Knowledge Management

• Provides input for development of concepts, policy research/review, brochures, annual reports, and technical material (best practices, project success stories) for scale-up.
• Organizing knowledge and experience-sharing events and workshops with partners.

   4. Coordination Tasks

• Implementing daily operational aspects of all issues related to the project. 

Other duties/additional tasks:

• Technical and organizational supervision of consortium partners in the other project outputs.
• Participate in suitable team and steering committee meetings.
• Participate in existing stakeholder engagements.
• Participation and technical presentations at conferences and expert sessions as required.
• Ensuring that information is exchanged between project staff, consortium partners and other stakeholders.
• Perform other duties and tasks at the request of management. 

E. Required Qualifications, Experience and Competencies

• A master’s degree or higher in a relevant field such as (renewable) energy management and public policy related discipline.
• Proven experience (minimum of 5 years) in project design/implementation/assessment and co-ordination with Govt. partner preferably in the renewable energy sector.
• Strong knowledge of India’s energy market, renewable energy sector as well as energy related policies and regulation
• Experience in conducting technical reviews, quality assurance, and monitoring of project deliverables.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders, including government officials, project partners, and consultants.
• Focus Competence areas: Energy policy, Regulation, RE/DRE adoption at scale.
• Minimum 7 years of overall professional experience.
• At least 5 years of working experience in the domain of Energy policy /regulations/program/schemes
• At least 1 year of experience in assisting state energy departments/agencies
• Practical experience in advising/coaching senior to mid-level technical staff and decision makers in public administrations.
• Experience of working with multilateral/bilateral agencies would be desirable.
• Prior experience in working with Ministries and State Government will be an asset.
• Experience with gender inclusive DRE programs will be advantageous. 

F. Location: New Delhi

G. Duration of the contract: 31^st March 2027

Application without GIZ application form will not be considered

• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
• GIZ supports Work-Life Balance.
• GIZ promotes Gender Diversity – Applications from women professionals are encouraged.
• Please note that those individuals who have completed a consultancy assignment with GIZ in less than 6 months prior to the intended start date for this position will not be shortlisted due to organisational policy.

Disclaimer: As per GIZ’s data confidentiality policy, candidate’s application is stored in our database for six months and is deleted thereafter.