Integrated Clean Energy and Social Safeguards Specialists (National Position)

Key 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 (Depending on Expert Profile)

• Profile 1: Master's degree in Electrical/Energy Engineering or Mechanical/Environmental Engineering.
• Profile 2: University Bachelor's Degree in Renewable Energy or equivalent (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.
• Profile 3: 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.
• Profile 4: Advanced professional training in Results-Based Reimbursement/Financing Mechanisms with 5 years’ experience in supporting the design and operationalisation of RBF/RBR mechanisms, including enterprise compliance and reporting systems.
• Profile 5: University Bachelor's degree in Community Development or related fields with 3 years' experience in community liaison.

Required General Experience (All Experts)

• At least 3 years of professional experience in refugee settings working in Kenya.
• At least 3 years of experience in development cooperation projects.