Senior Associate, Interconnected Minigrids at Husk Power Energy Systems Nigeria Limited

Husk is one of the world’s leading rural energy providers. We provide low-cost and reliable power to rural households and businesses, entirely from renewable energy sources. Powering economic possibilities in every village is at the heart of everything we do.

We design, build and operate the lowest cost hybrid (solar and biomass) power plant and distribution network in India and Africa. To date, Husk has provided electricity to over 15,000 homes and business, reducing 95,000 tonnes of CO2. Our aim is to provide 30MW of power to 225,000 customers by 2025, and save 350,000 tonnes of CO2 each year.

We are recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Associate, Interconnected Minigrids

Location: Abuja
Job type: Full time

Key Responsibilities
General:

• Play a key part as a member of the Stakeholder Engagement Team and contribute to the building of robust and critical relationships pertinent to the successful roll out of interconnected minigrids in the country.
• Work with internal cross-functional teams towards IMG site deployment phase and relevant program submission engagements.
• Support information and data gathering for market intelligence insights within and around proposed IMG deployment locations.
• Other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

DisCo Engagement:

• Assist with managing relevant industry relationships with DisCos and other relevant partners to ensure Husk Nigeria attains leadership position in IMG deployment within Nigeria.
• Assist with managing all DisCo related conversations across structuring blended tariffs using the MYTO tool, assessment of the integrity of Disco infrastructure, tripartite agreement signing as well as onboarding of previous customer records from the relevant DisCo.
• Maintain a repository of data across all DisCo engagements and related community engagement as well as business proposals and presentations made to DisCos and relevant authorities.
• Maintain active relationships with key technical and commercial staff of the prospected Discos.

Stakeholder Management:

• Coordinate, maintain regular communication, and develop positive and productive relationships with various community groups/stakeholders, regulatory stakeholders, customer/client groups etc.
• Maintain effective relationships with all regulatory stakeholders – NERC, NEMSA, REA, NEP, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Environment & other principal actors across several states where Husk operates.
• Maintain an active database of all public sector stakeholders (including political appointees and key civil servants).

Program Management:

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders on system design review and energy audit requirements for proposed IMG deployments.
• Coordinate with all internal stakeholders for collation of documents etc for relevant program submissions.
• Provide requisite support for engagements with external program teams including qualitative analysis, collecting and analyzing survey data, conducting program-related research.

Community Engagement:

• Drive active community engagements within selected IMG communities during pre-development phase.
• Maintain an active database of the minutes and pictures of all community engagement meetings during the pre-development phase.
• Ensure community reports are properly captured and documented.
• Maintain an active database of all key community stakeholders including the host communities’’ chiefs, graded traditional rulers, key palace functionaries, religious leaders etc

Performance Management:

• Maintain the performance monitoring dashboard for IMG status deployment and program submissions/engagements.
• Provide monthly status update reports using data visualization tools.

Qualifications
Does this sound like you?

• Graduate from a leading institution with a degree in Engineering preferably Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Engineering Physics or a related science degree. Relevant trainings or certifications; a plus.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar role within the power or telecommunications sectors, supporting project delivery, program management and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to ensure closure for tasks and engagements, based on business requirements.
• Excellent skills with MS Office.
• Proficiency in Power System Design software (Homer Pro, Pvsyst etc).
• Proficiency in Data Visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• Superb interpersonal skills, including the ability to quickly build rapport relevant to internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-diverse environment coordinating with multiple stakeholders.

General Skills & Attributes:

• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, Google Suite and other relevant tools
• Highly motivated and target driven with a proven track record in delivering tasks in a timely and effective manner.
• Excellent communication skills
• Highly numerate and analytical with an ability to make strategic inputs for driving and achieving business goals.
• Responsive with great time management and organizational skills
• Ability to create and deliver presentations tailored to the audience needs.
• Relationship management skills and openness to feedback
• A Can-Do attitude with a knack for taking ownership of deliverables.

Physical Demands:

• Have full range of mobility in upper and lower body
• Could work in outdoor weather conditions at certain times
• Have adequate visual and hearing acuity to follow instructions; and determine accuracy of the work assigned.
• Ability to work in rural, peri-urban locations as required.

Also:

• You are driven to support the delivery of business growth in a new market.
• You have a robust industry network and understand effective stakeholder engagement practices.
• You are an effective planner and have a strong orientation to process.
• You building strong relationship built on trust and are a strong verbal communicator.
• You pride your communication skills.
• Most importantly, candidate must fit company spirit where people work smart, play hard, have fun and are dedicated to success.

Location and Travel

• This role is based in Abuja. Occasional travel to Husk’s Mini Grids in the rural areas of Nasarawa is required. Number of travelling days could be 2-3 days in 3 months.
• If a female employee is required to travel, she will be accompanied by another senior colleague and Travel policy that highlights safety for female travelers will be strictly followed with zero-tolerance to any security flags.

Benefits

• Husk offers flexible working conditions with employee benefits that are in line with global best practices. These include clear career growth planning, transparent annual review processes that are gender inclusive, maternity, and paternity leave, gender inclusive workplace conditions, family health insurance, frequent trainings to assist the employees to grow-in and to the next roles.
• Husk does not believe in micromanagement and encourages its employees to have a healthy work- life balance hence giving the freedom to manage their workload to be compatible with their life.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.