(Reference No. REEE-SCALE 2020/004)

A.      Responsibilities

The Technical Advisor is responsible for:

• Effective coordination with the Ministry of Energy (MoE), Power Division, National Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (NEECA) and selected cities admiration (e.g. metropolitan corporations, development authorities etc.)
• Development of operational plan in consultation with partners and stakeholders
• Identification and implementation of low investment Energy Efficiency (EE) measures in selected cities (administration buildings, school, hospitals, streetlights, water supply and sanitation)
• Organizing information exchange events in close coordination with cities administration and relevant association (e.g. association of local governments) and (e.g. roundtable meeting(s), workshops. seminars etc.)
• Development of promotional and knowledge sharing material on EE best practices in partner cities for knowledge exchange events
• Information sharing with Pakistan German Renewable Energy Forum (PGREF)
• Assessing capacity development needs of relevant partners and stakeholders
• Expansion of energy efficiency measures to other sectors within the cities’ municipal services

The technical advisor will be responsible for the following tasks:

B.      Tasks

• Establishing trustful working relation with all project partners and stakeholders (MoE, NEECA and partners cities, relevant associations etc.)
• Developing detailed activity plan in consultation with all partners and stakeholders incl. budgetary requirements
• Advise partners and stakeholders on implementation of low/no investment energy efficiency measures within the municipal services in partners cities
• Advise partners and stakeholders on scaling up successful energy efficiency practices to other sectors and cities
• Identifying needs for external support (national and international short-term experts) and developing terms of reference (ToR)
• Contribute to the development of communication strategy for dissemination of best practices and information exchange
• Contribute to the project impact monitoring and annual progress report(s)
• Provide technical input to relevant information exchange events at PGREF platform
• Regularly updating operational plan to ensure achievement of project objective and indicators
• Develop strategic approach for widening energy efficiency applications

C.      Other duties/additional tasks

• Performs other duties and tasks at the request of management
• Reports all problems and compliance issues without delay to the AV
• Work as team member of the project and cooperate with admin and finance unit
• Actively participate in GIZ working groups meetings to improve communication and facilitate working relationship and exchange of experiences with/amongst GIZ projects and programmes

D.      Required qualifications, competences and experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor/master’s degree in engineering/economics or any other relevant field

Professional experience

• At least 5 years’ professional experience of energy efficiency projects
• Working experience of coordination and networking with national and provincial ministries and departments (MoE, development authorities, provincial energy departments etc.)

Other knowledge, additional competences

• Fluent written and oral knowledge of English and Urdu
• Excellent presentation skills
• Very good working knowledge of ITC technologies (related software, phone, fax, email, the internet) and computer applications (e.g. MS Office)
• Willingness to upskill as required by the tasks to be performed – corresponding measures are agreed with management