Senior Energy Advisor – UK, NL, or Kenya

Location: UK, NL, or kenya – Versatile working

Place Standing: Full time, everlasting

Wage: The beginning wage vary for this place within the UK is annual 53,360 GBP; in NL is annual 63,040 Euro, in Kenya is month-to-month KES. 733,300

Deadline: Please submit utility and canopy letter by April tenth

Present unrestricted work authorization in UK or NL is required on the time of utility for this place.

About Mercy Corps

Mercy Corps is a worldwide staff of humanitarians working collectively on the entrance traces of right this moment’s greatest crises to create a way forward for chance, the place everybody can prosper. In additional than 40+ international locations all over the world, over 5,400+ staff members work aspect by aspect with folks dwelling by poverty, catastrophe, violent battle, and the acute impacts of local weather change. We’re dedicated to creating world change by native influence — 84% of our staff members are from the international locations the place they work.

We convey a complete method to each problem, addressing issues from a number of angles. And we transcend emergency support, partnering with native governments, forward-thinking firms, social entrepreneurs, and folks dwelling in fragile communities to develop daring options that make lasting change potential.

About Packages at Mercy Corps

The Packages operate at Mercy Corps helps its mission and works with program influence, innovation, and affect groups. The Program Perform consists of headquarters and regional departments that are guided by Mercy Corps world technique: Pathway to Risk and works in shut partnership with all different company departments to ship the best high quality programming and impactful outcomes. The Program Crew aligns intently with the Pathway to Risk, and works to ship on elevated accountability, alignment, and truthful and clear useful resource allocation, whereas performing with its Core Behaviors of collaboration, curiosity, inclusion, and integrity on the forefront. The Packages operate is a key steward of Mercy Corps’ strategic commitments and the mixing of those commitments into programming, inclusive of: Local weather Good, Regionally Led, Proof Pushed, Progressive and Artistic, and Protected, Various and Inclusive.

Our complete TRaQ Crew is an integral a part of the Program Division that helps country-led work to ship measurable influence, leads company pondering in key technical and program administration areas, and ensures high quality programing whereas sustaining company visibility with key audiences. TRaQ’s aim is to equip our world packages with the best technical options and high quality program administration instruments to sort out the world’s hardest challenges, whereas concurrently constructing our world status and assets.

The TRaQ staff has 9 technical and cross-cutting thematic groups, Local weather and Water Safety, Financial Alternative, Meals Safety, Peace and Governance, World Resilience, Social Inclusion, Money, Infrastructure, Coaching and Program Requirements. This place might be a part of the Local weather and Water staff. Every staff has established targets and methods that can information the Senior Advisors work

The Place

Supporting company priorities, the Local weather and Water Safety staff is especially targeted on technical help within the areas of local weather change adaptation and low carbon growth, together with catastrophe threat discount; pure useful resource administration and environmental conservation; and entry to vitality. The Senior Vitality Advisor will play a pivotal position in Mercy Corps’ Technical Assist Unit, specializing in the event of latest companies and steerage for the implementation of vitality initiatives with a powerful emphasis on modern fashions for renewable vitality entry. This position would require in-depth information of renewable vitality markets and vitality financing fashions and devices. The Senior Vitality Advisor will lead the cost in creating connections between vitality entry and entry to finance whereas contributing to enterprise mannequin growth, threat evaluation, and stakeholder engagement.

The Senior Advisor will primarily deal with serving to nation groups strengthen their portfolio of low carbon growth programming, by the mixing of renewable vitality. This can embody integration of vitality issues in nation methods, growing idea notes, help donor engagement, and producing influencing analysis merchandise. The Senior Advisor may even present robust technical recommendation and coaching in areas associated to entry to vitality and low carbon growth, together with: program design and growth; program high quality; community and illustration at key sector boards; and lead strategic partnerships and contribute to strategic discussions (internally and externally).

The Senior Advisor offers technical help to Mercy Corps program groups within the Senior Advisor’s space of experience. Assist contains designing and growing packages, assessing and enhancing program high quality, writing proposals for donors, offering coaching, growing humanitarian networks, sustaining present information on trade finest practices, disseminating data to inside and exterior companions, and representing Mercy Corps at key occasions. The Senior Advisor may even construct the capability of their friends and the group.

Important Duties

PROGRAM DESIGN AND PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT

• Assist nation technique refinement to combine renewable vitality as a catalyst for the Company’s technique, regularly elevating funds and amassing proof in collaboration with nation and regional groups.
• Write and assessment grant proposals and idea notes for donors together with foundations, firms, and authorities companies.
• Analysis, analyze, and assess knowledge to find out program wants, priorities, and Mercy Corps’ benefits for funding; Preserve information of growth methods by governmental, educational, and non-profit teams.
• Collaborate with program, nation, regional, and TRaQ groups on prepositioning and technique growth, and designing multi-sectoral packages that meet the outcomes and commitments in Mercy Corps’ 10-year technique.
• Lead write complicated, aggressive proposals following Mercy Corps’ finest practices in proposal growth, staff administration, and the suitable sectoral space.

PROGRAM QUALITY

• Present vitality entry applied sciences and enterprise fashions technical help to Mercy Corps’ groups globally, together with these in complicated disaster environments; Assist efficient interventions by built-in approaches and techniques pondering.
• Strengthen partnerships at world, regional and nation ranges with know-how firms, monetary service suppliers, influence buyers, institutional donors, foundations, analysis institutes, UN companies, peer organizations, and host nation governments.
• Preserve requirements of program supply by utility of company approaches and compliance with related rules and necessities.
• Improve program capability inside Mercy Corps by growing and circulating instruments corresponding to coaching and workshops, manuals, case research, webinars, and monitoring and analysis instruments; Collaborate with Director to set and execute methods addressing agency-wide program high quality wants.

LEARNING AND IMPACT

• Present in-country and distant coaching for Mercy Corps employees, companions, and packages with help on evaluation, implementation, analysis, and analysis.
• Construct a powerful group of follow throughout Mercy Corps in your technical space to strengthen program high quality and construct a group of technical specialists.

INFLUENCE & REPRESENTATION

• Construct Mercy Corps’ status as a crucial influencer in entry to vitality and low carbon growth in fragile contexts and develop our exterior visibility on related technical areas and lead exterior illustration efforts.
• Symbolize Mercy Corps at educational occasions, conferences, media boards, and different occasions; Contribute to thought management in space of experience.
• Establish and nurture strategic partnerships with different organizations and establishments; Current ideas and concepts to donors, companions, and peer organizations that affect them to drive innovation and constructive change.

PERSONAL LEADERSHIP

● Display distinctive management by constantly delivering expectations and sustaining composure, even in difficult conditions.

● Embrace a development mindset, actively search various views, and welcome suggestions to drive steady enchancment.

● Preserve the best moral requirements, treating all people with respect and dignity.

● Display professionalism in all points of life, guaranteeing that your conduct displays positively on Mercy Corps and doesn’t compromise its mission or work.

● Rent, orient and lead staff members as mandatory.

Supervisory Duty

The place has supervisory duty over interns and/or volunteers. At occasions this place can have supervisory duty over different staff members when there is no such thing as a Director on the staff.

Accountability

Experiences Immediately To: Director of Vitality Entry

Works Immediately With: all different TRaQ groups, HQ, Regional and Program groups

Accountability to Members and Stakeholders

Mercy Corps staff members are anticipated to help all efforts towards accountability, particularly to our program contributors, group companions, different stakeholders, and to worldwide requirements guiding worldwide reduction and growth work. We’re dedicated to actively partaking communities as equal companions within the design, monitoring and analysis of our area initiatives.

Minimal Qualification & Transferable Expertise

• 5 to 7 years of expertise required offering more and more proficient technical help within the related area of experience that features:
  • Grant writing, analysis, and proposal growth.
  • Main all points of enormous and complicated proposals and managing built-in grant writing groups.
  • Producing and publishing influential articles and blogs.
  • Combining robust theoretical and utilized information of the sector of experience utilizing built-in approaches and making use of techniques pondering.
• Diploma in vitality engineering, local weather finance, environmental coverage or administration, or different local weather change-related specialties most popular.
• Sensible area expertise required, usually over the course of two years, that features:
  • A brief period area project, longer-term area assignments, or dwelling in a area location to work in a rustic or area workplace.
  • An emergency response project or different disaster response work demonstrating efficiently adapting help and help methodologies to real-world complexities.
  • Managing and implementing profitable packages.
  • Delivering Capability Constructing curriculum or different processes for program groups.
• Familiarity with main donors corresponding to USAID, FCDO, the EC and related foundations and firms.
• Fluency in English is required; fluency in a overseas language most popular.

Success Components

The Senior Advisor can have vital expertise managing packages and adjusting technical theories to actual world complexities. The person ought to have the confirmed potential to affect donors, companions, and peer organizations towards modern packages and finest practices. Via their expertise managing giant or complicated proposals, the person will be capable to coach different Mercy Corps employees on adjusting their methodology. The Senior Advisor should take a lead position in constructing and sustaining exterior relationships in addition to demonstrating the drive and initiative to contribute to inside staff efforts.

At Mercy Corps, we worth staff members who embrace curiosity, act with integrity, and foster an setting of inclusion and collaboration. Our profitable staff members work successfully in evolving and dynamic environments, prioritize clear communication, and construct collaborative relationships throughout departments. They work together with all world staff members with an inclusive method and excel at multitasking, assembly deadlines, and processing data to help our altering program actions.

Dwelling Circumstances / Environmental Circumstances

The place relies in UK or NL and it requires as much as 40% journey to help nation packages, which can embody journey to insecure areas the place freedom of motion is restricted and areas the place facilities are restricted.

Ongoing Studying

In help of our perception that studying organizations are simpler, environment friendly and related to the communities we serve, we empower all staff members to dedicate 5% of their time to studying actions that additional their private and/or skilled development and growth

Range, Fairness & Inclusion

Attaining our mission begins with how we construct our staff and work collectively. Via our dedication to enriching our group with folks of various origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and methods of pondering, we’re higher capable of leverage the collective energy of our groups and clear up the world’s most complicated challenges. We try for a tradition of belief and respect, the place everybody contributes their views and genuine selves, reaches their potential as people and groups, and collaborates to do one of the best work of their lives.

We acknowledge that range and inclusion is a journey, and we’re dedicated to studying, listening and evolving to grow to be extra various, equitable and inclusive than we’re right this moment.

Equal Employment Alternative

Mercy Corps is an equal alternative employer that doesn’t tolerate discrimination on any foundation. We actively hunt down various backgrounds, views, and expertise in order that we could be collectively stronger and have sustained world influence.

We’re dedicated to offering an setting of respect and psychological security the place equal employment alternatives can be found to all. We don’t have interaction in or tolerate discrimination on the idea of race, coloration, gender id, gender expression, faith, age, sexual orientation, nationwide or ethnic origin, incapacity (together with HIV/AIDS standing), marital standing, army veteran standing or some other protected group within the areas the place we work.

Safeguarding & Ethics

Mercy Corps is dedicated to making sure that each one people we come into contact with by our work, whether or not staff members, group members, program contributors or others, are handled with respect and dignity. We’re dedicated to the core ideas concerning prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary Normal and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. We won’t tolerate baby abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our staff members. As a part of our dedication to a protected and inclusive work setting, staff members are anticipated to conduct themselves in knowledgeable method, respect native legal guidelines and customs, and to stick to Mercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values always. Crew members are required to finish necessary Code of Conduct elearning programs upon rent and on an annual foundation.