Head of Energy Information System at GIZ Nigeria

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Responsibilities and Tasks

• As Head of Energy Information System, you coordinate Output 2: The Energy Information System is fully operational, maintained and updated in all ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania for providing reliable energy indicators.
• This support focuses on capacity assessment and assistance to the ECOWAS Member States in the collection and production of statistical data, monitoring of statistical data collection and production, equipment, software and training related to the establishment of a regional and national collection interface at the ECOWAS and
• Member State levels, strengthening collaboration with AFREC on energy sector statistics (verified statistics). This effort includes gender-sensitive approaches, where possible.
• In this capacity, you are responsible for carrying out the following activities:
• Coordinate the activities of the Energy information System Component.
• Support the establishment of a permanent institutional framework for managing the regional energy information system.
• Assess equipment and software used by national ECOWAS energy teams (plus Mauritania) and ECOWAS Commission to identify and procure, if needed, new equipment and software.
• Support ECOWAS Commission and ECOWAS Member States (plus Mauritania) in establishing suitable coordination and synergies mechanisms regarding data collection, validation, analysis and storage and production of statistical data and energy reports.
• Harmonize, as much as possible, existing energy databases in the region (ECOWAS, ECREEE, WAPP), to ensure the consistency of energy data and indicators.
• Organize an annual regional workshop to maintain the framework for exchange and cooperation between the Member States and ECOWAS.
• Organize capacity-building sessions to provide national players with the knowledge and competencies they need to use the national information system.
• Produce the annual energy facts sheets the annual ECOWAS
• Energy Outlook and support cooperation between ECOWAS and AFREC, AFREC, IEA, IRENA, etc.

Required qualifications, Competences and Experience

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Science or any related field.

Professional experience

• At least 10 years of professional experience in the field of in computerised solutions for the collection, processing and dissemination of energy statistics at national and regional level.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of the Energy information System.
• At least 5 years of professional experience support to an ECOWAS institution.
• Assisted at least four ECOWAS member states in establishing an energy information system.
• Proven experience in supporting public and private institutions in ECOWAS member states.
• Extensive experience in cooperating with institutions responsible for energy statistics, such as CEREEC, AFREC, IRENA and the IEA.
• Relevant experience in capitalisation and knowledge management.
• Good command of IT tools, in particular: E-sankey et sankey.csaladen, Computer languages: MySQL (databases), HTML, XML, etc, the Internet, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Outlook), MS Teams
• Fluency in spoken and written French is mandatory (international level C2). Independent and proficient use of English (at least international level C1).