Integrated Clean Energy and Social Safeguards Specialists (National Position)

About the job

Main tasks and responsibilities

• Establish and operationalise cookstove production centres, ensuring testing, quality assurance, compliance with standards, and strengthening stove and alternative fuel supply chains, including last-mile distribution.
• Promote adoption of clean cooking solutions through behaviour change campaigns, community sensitisation, and pilot demonstrations of fuels and appliances to assess performance, efficiency, affordability, and user acceptance.
• Deliver technical training to artisans, SMEs, and refugee enterprises on design, production, safety, efficiency testing, and clean energy technologies, including alternative fuels and e-cooking.
• Provide business coaching and capacity building to refugee and host community SMEs, conduct market and consumer assessments, identify productive use of energy opportunities, and support integration into enterprise business models and financing pathways.
• Provide technical inputs to the operationalisation of Results-Based Reimbursement (RBR) mechanisms, support enterprise compliance, and establish systems for performance data recording, verification, and reporting in coordination with the MEAL team.
• Design and implement monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEAL) frameworks; conduct socio-economic, gender, and affordability surveys; and support structured reporting to GIZ and donor partners.
• Develop and deploy digital data collection and monitoring tools, support digital innovation pilots (e.g. mobile payments, smart metering, remote monitoring), and build partner capacity in data use and reporting.
• Provide technical support on environmental, gender, and social safeguards across all interventions and ensure compliance with applicable standards and requirements.
• Document lessons learned, innovations, and best practices; produce analytical knowledge products; and facilitate learning events, trainings, and workshops to support programme learning, replication, and scale-up.

Essential Requirements

• Expert with master's degree in electrical/Energy Engineering or Mechanical/Environmental Engineering.
• Expert with University Bachelor's Degree in Renewal Energy or an equivalent discipline (covering ICS, Solar for PUE, Mini Grids, alternative fuels, HTC, and digital energy applications with 5 years of experience in Solar for productive use and mini grids.
• Expert with University bachelor's degree or advanced professional training in environmental and social safeguards, gender and social inclusion with 5 years’ experience in environmentally friendly cooking technologies.
• Expert with advanced professional training in Results based Reimbursement/Financing Mechanisms with experience in 5 years’ experience in supporting the design and operationalisation of results-based financing (RBF/RBR) mechanisms, including enterprise compliance and reporting systems.
• Expert in University bachelor's degree in Community Development or related fields with 3 years' experience in community Liaison.

Required Skills And Experiences

• All Experts should possess 3 years of professional experience in Refugee Settings working in Kenya.
• All experts to possess atleast 3 years’ experience in development cooperation projects