INDONESIA: ENERGY LEAD (INDONESIA PROGRAM)

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INTRODUCTION TO GGGI

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies. To learn more please visit about GGGI web page. 

POSITION SUMMARY

PURPOSE 

The Energy Lead is responsible for leading and managing GGGI’s energy programming and Energy Unit in Indonesia.  

• Act as GGGI’s most senior energy sector expert in Indonesia, providing high-quality technical and expert advisory to partners and project teams to support the ongoing growth of the sustainable energy sector in Indonesia.  
• Lead the strategic positioning and growth of GGGI's sustainable energy programming and ensure its ongoing alignment with GOI’s priorities and the priorities and expectations of GGGI resource partners and key stakeholders. 
• Provide excellence in management functions of the Energy Unit, including delegation, planning, quality control, team and people management, financial management and planning, and overall compliance of GGGI’s Energy Unit activities and portfolio with GGGI’s internal policies and procedures.  
• Ensure excellence in project management across the Energy Unit’s project managers and teams, and alignment and compliance of the Unit’s project management activities with GGGI’s global project management practices and platforms.  
• Build, support and lead an Energy Unit team of high-quality, high-performing colleagues, in alignment with GGGI’s core values and principles.  
• Lead portfolio level energy work-planning, ensuring that resources are aligned with portfolio needs, and challenges and bottlenecks to portfolio delivery are identified, management and minimized.  
• Ensure timely execution and implementation of GGGI’s sustainable energy workplans, oversee relevant budgets and conduct project monitoring and evaluation for activities in coordination with relevant colleagues.  
• Identify, assess and structure new and emerging opportunities within the sustainable energy sector in Indonesia for GGGI program development and propose and develop relevant projects and activities 
• Ensure the Energy Unit and programming undertakes high-quality monitoring and evaluation, learns from key lessons, and exhibits a culture of adaptation and learning in all areas for constant improvement.  

ENGAGEMENT 

[In-country engagement]

• Act as GGGI’s senior focal point and lead in-country expert on topics related sustainable energy in Indonesia 
• Provide high-quality advisory to the GGGI Indonesia team, government counterparts and partners and facilitate dialogue, collaboration and partnership between these stakeholders 
• Cultivate, invest in and maintain active professional relationships with government partners, resource partners, private sector and other key stakeholders to capture and integrate their changing needs and manage expectations 
• Actively engage and build relationships with multi-lateral and bilateral partners in Indonesia, in order to support delivery of GGGI’s current portfolio of projects, as well as explore new areas for partnership development and resource mobilization.  

[External engagement]

• Collaborate and establish partnerships with national and international profit and non-profit organizations to collaborate in the development and promotion of sustainable energy in Indonesia 
• Promote GGGI Indonesia’s energy programing and GGGI's global efforts with the donor community, private sector, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders 

[Internal engagement]

• Cultivate, support and manage GGGI’s Energy Unit and team, ensuring excellence in people management, talent retention and cultivation, providing high quality supervision, delegation and planning.  
• Collaborate with other GGGI country teams, units, and divisions on identified joint activity opportunities to ensure knowledge exchange and integrated delivery as “One GGGI” 
• Act as a focal point for different GGGI to advise on sustainable energy projects, programs, and initiatives that align with GOI priorities and could be taken up for development. 
• Advise GGGI on opportunities for engagement in the sustainable energy sector, demonstrating effective adaptation of the GGGI approach. 

DELIVERY 

• Lead the strategic, managerial, and technical elements of GGGI’s sustainable energy programming in Indonesia in order to build, grow and strengthen this area of the GGGI country office’s work 
• Lead the conceptualization, preparation and development of new project and program proposals for resource partners and government counterparts, engaging in co-creation of and co-structuring of opportunities to ensure the development and approval of high-quality, high-integrity and ambitious projects for decarbonizing the energy sector.  
• Align closely with GOI priorities when implementing sustainable energy activities, recognizing the importance of government buy-in and ownership in the implementation of GGGI programs 
• Provide project and policy inputs for GGGI projects across the GGGI member countries focused on mainstreaming renewable energy and energy efficiency into energy plans at national and subnational levels. 
• Actively participate in GGGI Indonesia’s country program level activities, as a member of GGGI Indonesia’s senior (management) team, and ensure collaboration and compliance of the Energy Unit with new initiatives and directives adopted at the country level, regional (Asia) level or within GGGI globally.  

REQUIREMENTS / QUALIFICATIONS 

• An advanced (masters or PhD) degree in engineering, resource management, energy and/or related subjects  
• Preferably ten years of work experience in sustainable energy, energy efficiency or energy systems and technologies  
• Strong network with key national stakeholders in Indonesia and extensive experience working with government institutions at national and subnational levels 
• Strong management expertise, with preferably five years of management of diverse and multi-cultural teams 
• Strong project management experience, with demonstrated track record delivering energy projects in either policy, investment facilitation, infrastructure or other settings 
• Technical and policy expertise in the energy sector of Indonesia, and strong technology knowledge of renewable energy and energy efficiency, including technologies such as solar, wind, biogas and bioenergy etc. Technical knowledge on green hydrogen will be considered a strong asset. 
• Fluency in written and spoken Indonesian and English is required. 

FUNCTIONAL 

• Demonstrated experience in strategic and analytical thinking and preparing reports, including the types of analysis specific to the objectives and scope of this position.  
• Demonstrated ability to represent organizations to government officials and develop and carry out a strategy  
• Demonstrated team management experience in a multicultural setting  
• Outstanding interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills and consensus-building skills, able to foster strong relationships with key stakeholders and partners. 
• Flexibility, responsiveness, and ability to manage multiple activities to tight deadlines, and with demonstrated ability to lead and work in multidisciplinary teams 
• Experience working in an international organization  

CORPORATE  

• Understand and actively support GGGI’s mission, vision, and values: Integrity, Excellence, Transformational, Inclusiveness, and Boldness. 
• Promote an organizational culture of trust, transparency, respect and partnership.  
• Excels at problem-solving, asks questions, seeks support when needed, and easily shares information and knowledge with others internally and externally.  
• Manage emotions and stress positively, build rapport, and resolve conflict easily.  
• Strong ability to work independently and/or remotely while maintaining productivity.  
• Promotes consistent integration of gender and social inclusion into work-programming. 
• Promotes creativity and innovation among staff and supports career development at all levels. 
• Exhibits excellence in leadership and models behaviours aligned with GGGI’s codes of conduct, norms and policies, and international best practice.  

WORKING CONDITIONS 

• This position is an X10 grade level in GGGI’s national salary scale. Determination of base salary is subject to candidate's experience, academic background and internal equity. 
• GGGI provides 15% of base salary towards retirement plan/long-term savings, 27 days of annual leave, and private health insurance that covers dental and vision.   
• GGGI is committed to providing a work environment that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate diverse life-cycle challenges and assist staff members to achieve a better balance between work and personal/family commitments, thus ensuring high performance, long-term productivity, and well-being of staff members.  
• The chosen candidate is expected to be based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and will report to the Deputy Country Representative of Indonesia. 
• This is a national position and does not include relocation benefits. 

INTRODUCTION 

Currently, GGGI supports the Government of Indonesia (GoI) under the joint GoI-GGGI Green Growth Program (GGP, “the Program”). The Program aims to demonstrate that green investments can become the norm both for investors and planners, ultimately improving the quality of economic development for more environmental sustainability and social inclusion. Through the Program, GGGI collaborates with the Ministry of Development Planning (Bappenas), the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (“PT SMI”) and others. GGGI’s operations are guided and overseen by a Steering Committee comprised of government partners and other stakeholders under the auspices of the Bappenas.