Deadline: 4th April 2017
Country/Region: Caribbean
Position: Senior International Expert with Experience in Technical and Financial Evaluation of Sustainable Energy Projects
Type: Short-term
Revelle Group is looking for a Senior International Expert with Experience in Technical and Financial Evaluation of Sustainable Energy Projects for the short-term assignment: ‘Support the Development of the Caribbean Sustainable Energy Investment Project Pipeline for CIF & ElectriFI’.
Background information
The following assignment is part of the ongoing project: Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) for the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Initiative, for which Revelle Group is part of the consortium implementing it. The TAF supports targeted developing countries located in one of the following regions: Neighbourhood (East and South), Asia (including Central Asia), Latin America, Caribbean and Pacific, to improve their policy and regulatory framework conditions in order to provide attractive and enabling conditions for increased public and private investment in priority areas of SE4ALL: i) Energy access; ii) Rural electrification; iii) Renewable energy and; iv) Energy efficiency.
This specific assignment aims at developing a comprehensive and detailed list (pipeline) of sustainable energy investment projects in the Caribbean region (based on an existing project list identified by CARICOM and CCREE, but also by other reliable sources). The assignment should also identify and assess the most promising ones that could be supported by the Caribbean Investment Fund (CIF) and/or ElectriFI.
Main Tasks
To review the concrete technical feasibility of specific projects, providing technical input on specific issues (depending on the exact needs of the TA of the particular Project), the technical feasibility of generation and transmission of energy.
Qualifications and skills
- Master’s Degree or higher, in economics, financing, industrial engineering, Engineering/ Technical Management, energy studies or a related discipline and with a background on energy economics and financing and in sustainable energy deployment
General professional experience
- At least 20 years (cat.1) or 10 years (cat.2) of relevant professional (technical) experience in the field of the assignment (as a practitioner);
- Proven excellent report writing and communication skills (oral and written);
- Fluent in spoken and written English;
- Proficient knowledge of the official language of the country of the Project(s) (Spanish or French) would be an advantage.
Specific professional experience
- 10 years (cat.1) or 7 years (cat.2) in financing of energy projects with a focus on RE technologies of various types (on-grid and off-grid systems; small, to large, decentralised and utility-scale), energy efficiency and rural electrification;
- Proven experience in preparing (pre-)feasibility studies and feasibility studies as well as financing studies for SE investment projects;
- Experience in developing and/or emerging markets and/or frontier markets;
- Experience in renewable energy, energy efficiency or /rural electrification project development in the Caribbean or island countries will be a particular advantage.
Interested candidates can send their detailed CVs at the email: hr@revellegroup.eu. Deadline for sending CVs is: 4th April 2017.
