Senior Manager - Market Analysis and Competition at Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)

Job Description

• Monitor and analyse periodic market reports daily, weekly and monthly, as may be submitted by the Commission’s licensees – TCN, NCC, MO, NBET, DisCos and GenCos.  
• Monitor and analyse policies impacting on the Nigerian Electricity Market (NEM). 
• Review Licensees’ compliance to the Commercial terms of their License Terms and Obligations.  
• Prepare draft papers on commercial and economic issues related to the electricity market as may be requested from time to time for the presentation to the Commission and the Government.  
• Contribute towards the presentation of the quarterly report of the NEM and the Annual reports on the state of completion of the market.  
• Review and analyse requests by Distribution licensees on issues impacting on their compliance to existing regulations and request for derogations on implementing the directives of the Commission.  
• Undertake studies to assess the effectiveness and appropriateness of regulatory and non-regulatory instruments in achieving policy objectives/directives that may be issued by the government.  

Minimum Qualification s/ Skills

• Bachelor's degree with relevant professional qualifications in any of the following disciplines - Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business Management or Administration, Finance or Accountancy – with a minimum of second class upper (2:1) or an equivalent grade.  
• Holder of a Bachelor’s degree with a second class lower (2:2) in any of the disciplines listed above require a relevant non-executive Masters degree from a reputable tertiary institution obtained.  
• B.Sc in any of the fields mentioned with an M.Sc Energy Economics, M.Sc Econometrics, M.A. Economics, M.A. Utility Regulation, M.Sc Economics, LLM Energy Finance, M.Sc Statistics, and M.Sc Computer Science.  
• Minimum of 12 years experience inclusive of NYSC.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in Tariff setting as well as working and building financial or economic models. 
• Relevant working experience obtained in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI), an academic institution, a Nigerian or foreign financial, commercial, industrial or regulatory institution with demonstrable understanding of the electricity sector will an added advantage.