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The Infrastructure Practice Group

Globally, 840 million people live more than 2 kilometers from all-weather roads, 1 billion people lack electricity, and 4 billion people lack Internet access. Access to basic infrastructure services is critical for creating economic opportunities for the poor. The Infrastructure Practice Group is charged with developing sustainable solutions to help close infrastructure gaps in developing and emerging economies.

The World Bank Group helps developing countries build smart infrastructure that supports inclusive and sustainable growth, expands markets, creates job opportunities, promotes competition, and contributes to a cleaner future. We help countries address their unique infrastructure needs by working with the public and private sectors. Infrastructure improves lives by connecting people to opportunity. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure

Unit Overview

Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) Region

Home to about 700 million people of Africa’s people, the World Bank’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region is a geographically, culturally and economically diverse region of 26 countries stretching from the Red Sea in the North to the Cape of Good Hope in the South. The region has an estimated gross domestic product of $945,567 million in 2019. South Africa, an upper middle-income country, is the region’s largest economy, followed by Angola, Kenya and Ethiopia. Seychelles, an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, is the region’s only high-income economy. 

To learn more, visit: https://www.worldbank.org/en/region/afr/eastern-and-southern-africa

Southern Africa Energy Unit (IAEE3)

The Energy & Extractives (EEX) Global Practice (GP) of the World Bank Group is made up of about 300 professionals, a lending program in the order of US$5-7 billion a year, an active portfolio of some US$40 billion, and a rich program of Advisory and Analytical Work. The EEX GP focuses on: providing affordable, reliable and sustainable energy to meet the needs of fast-growing economies and to ensure universal access to modern energy services for people in client countries; and, strengthening policy and institutional frameworks to promote transparent and equitable growth of the extractives sectors for public benefit. There is a strong emphasis on private sector resource mobilization and catalyzing financing from commercial and other sources of development and climate finance.

The Bank is engaged in all aspects of the electricity sector – generation, transmission, distribution, rural electrification and off-grid– through development policy financing, program for results, investment financing support, technical assistance and guarantee operations; assisting the government with policy reforms to attract investments in generation and renewable energy along with the promotion of the regional energy trade in the Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Africa power pools, modernizing the electricity network for the needs of a modern economy and increasing energy access are among the key areas of the Bank’s deepening engagement in the sector.

The Africa energy sector grouping consists of four units across two regions of (a) Eastern and Southern Africa and (b) West and Central Africa.

Duties and Accountabilities

The World Bank’s Southern Africa Energy team supports governments, utilities, regional institutions, and private sector stakeholders in advancing the regional energy integration agenda. This includes supporting the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) and its member utilities to enhance regional power system planning, strengthen market modeling, and improve system operations. To strengthen this work, the team is seeking to hire a Power System Modeler who will provide technical expertise on regional modeling, market modeling, and power system planning, while also leading stakeholder engagement with SAPP utilities, the SAPP Coordination Centre, and market operators.

The selected candidate will also support teams, provide inputs on operational, policy dialogue and analytical activities as applicable.

The responsibilities of the selected candidate will include:

1. Regional and Market Modeling:

• Develop, update and maintain the SAPP power system model in coordination with the SAPP and the SAPP utilities
• Conduct regional analyses using the SAPP model to inform operations and/or the dialog with the regional and national counterparts, including to inform the
assessment of the economic transformation driven by regional integration (with a specific focus on jobs creation).
• Analyze and interpret modeling results to inform strategic decisions and policy recommendations.
• Build and maintain a regional market model to identify strategies to increase trade and support technical discussions with the SAPP market operator.

2. South Africa Domestic Power Market

• Support analytical work to inform the design and development of South Africa’s domestic power market, including market structure, pricing mechanisms, and integration with the regional market.
• Provide technical inputs to market development strategies and reforms in coordination with relevant stakeholders.

3. Collaboration with World Bank’s Eastern Africa energy team:

• Work closely with the World Bank’s Eastern Africa energy team to ensure consistency and coherence between SAPP and EAPP modeling approaches.
• Contribute to joint initiatives focused on cross-pool planning and interconnection opportunities.

4. Collaboration with Energy System Management Assistance Program (ESMAP):

• Collaborate with the ESMAP Power System Planning Team, mostly on model enhancements and knowledge products.

5. Other:

• Facilitate and lead discussions with planners in SAPP utilities, the SAPP team, and the market operator.
• Participate in the dialogue with relevant representatives to keep abreast with issues related to regional integration and identify possible areas of collaboration.
• Draft and provide timely contributions to project documents, project implementation and project completion reports.
• Support the preparation, completion and follow-up of official missions including the drafting of aide memoires and official correspondence.
• Draft and provide timely inputs to sector briefings and policy notes.