Development Worker as Advisor (m/f/d) Promotion of Solar Technologies for Economic Development

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH often shortened to simply GIZ, is a German development agency headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn that provides services in the field of international development cooperation and international education work. GIZ's main commissioning party is Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It is the organization's self-declared goal to deliver effective solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably improve their living conditions.

The project “Promotion of on- and off-grid Solar Technologies for Economic Development in Nepal” aims to improve the legal, institutional, and technological conditions for the expansion of solar technologies for climate-friendly economic development. The project is jointly implemented by the Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC), the energy agency of the Government of Nepal responsible for promoting Renewable Energy, and GIZ. The project will capacitate AEPC, provincial and local governments, as well as the private sector to promote and scale up the following 3 technologies based on Photovoltaic (PV): (1) Grid-integrated PV rooftop for companies and industries, (2) off-grid PV-irrigation pumps for farmers, and (3) PV mini-grids for rural areas without access to the national grid.

Requirements:

• University degree in engineering, economics, renewable energy, natural sciences, or other relevant subjects
• Demonstrated work experience in solar technologies, at best in regard to solar mini-grids, PV roof-top, and PV irrigation pumps
• Work experience in system design for the 3 mentioned solar technologies and with grid-integration of solar mini-grids is an additional asset
• Work experience in developing and implementing capacity building measures (e.g. trainings) for the deployment of renewable energy, at best the 3 mentioned solar technologies
• Work experience in private sector promotion and improvements of business models, at best for the 3 mentioned solar technologies
• Knowledge of policies and financial instruments to promote solar technologies
• Practical knowledge of developing digital databases, planning and monitoring instruments is an added advantage.