Deadline: 4 September 2017
Country/Region: Egypt
Position: Local Project Researcher (Junior)
Type: Short-term
Revelle Group is shortlisted and preparing a tender for the project ‘Support the Technical and Financial Sustainability of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Sectors’. We are currently looking for an expert for the position of Team Leader / Energy Expert.
The project aims to contribute to the management and the use of Egypt’s energy resources by improving operational efficiencies of concerned stakeholders and beneficiaries. The project will include:
- Reinforcing the institutional framework of the Energy Sector especially dealing with the role and functioning of NREA which implies strengthening the institutional and regulatory environment (where RES investments should be initiated), improving the financial capacity of institutions to accompany RES investments and defining and contributing to the separation of the role of NREA as planning entity and market player;
- Contributing to the role of standards and measurements in the energy efficiency (including the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources and the Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy) sector – which includes defining the governance regime of the accreditation and certification of the procedures to establish energy efficiency experts (energy manager and energy auditors) and, eventually, energy audits and clearly, identifying the role of the NREA in relation to the testing laboratory and training within the energy efficiency institutional framework;
- Strengthening the institutional sustainability of the Energy System Model through the development of a modelling Unit and through capacity strengthening of modelling expertise;
- Reinforcing awareness of the positive impacts and benefits of energy efficiency and also the use of renewable energy sources.
Qualifications and skills
- University first Degree or 3 years’ professional experience in supporting technical assistance projects in the Energy Sector;
- An advanced professional qualification related to energy would be an asset;
- Fluency in written and spoken Arabic;
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
General professional experience
- A minimum of 2 years’ professional experience in Technical Assistance Projects in the Energy sector in MENA Region.
Specific professional experience
- Previous experience as a Researcher or Project Operations Manager in Energy Sector in MENA Country.
Interested candidates can send their detailed CVs at the email: hr@revellegroup.eu. Deadline for sending CVs is: 4 September 2017.
