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Job Purpose/Mission

As part of the Minigrids team and reporting to the Commercial & Product Manager, you will play a key role in providing support for successful commercial operations of the EEA’s minigrids in Nigeria. This includes optimizing the customer experience, coordinating cluster activities, and maximizing minigrid revenues across the different streams of electricity sales, appliances sales, and customer finance.
This role implies to work closely with the rest of the EEA team in Nigeria and the global MySolGrid team. You will be based in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, but will occasionally be required to travel nationally.

Key Responsibilities

Minigrid Development 

• Participate in carrying out mini-grid development activities: site surveys, community and stakeholder engagement, and financial and regulatory due diligence. 
• Carry out site and demand analysis for input to the development of financial models, budgets, and business plans.
• Write concept notes and proposals to support grant applications, responses to tenders, and other partnerships.
• Collaborate with technical operations and legal to facilitate customer connections and smooth onboarding

Minigrid Commercial Operations

• Facilitate energy accounting and sales
• Build working relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders to facilitate appliance financing and sales, and the development of income-generating activities in our client communities
• Act as the ambassador for customers, and liaising with operations, CX, and other key internal teams, to ensure competitive operating decisions
• Build and maintain operational monitoring platforms and monthly reports

Experience

• Have at least 3 years of relevant experience in commercial operations, sales/business development, and customer and stakeholder engagement.
• Proficient in data and quantitative analysis and BI tools such as Excel, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Be passionate about clean energy expansion and improving the socio-economic standing of rural communities.
• Proven ability to be structured, organized, plan and schedule, and have an eye for detail.
• Able to meet deadlines and carry out several tasks in parallel 
• Able to work independently and demonstrate a great sense of initiative and sense of priorities 
• Have an entrepreneurial spirit and be able to work in a team 
• Have strong interpersonal skills to interface with your team-members and interact with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Commit to upholding high standards of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality 
• Demonstrate humility, honesty, and flexibility  
• Have experience in the field of minigrids or related experience in electrical utilities
• Functional knowledge of the Nigerian power sector and energy market fundamentals
• Prior experience with, or able to work with CRM tools

Qualifications

• Hold a degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, or any other related field.

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Job Purpose/Mission

The holders of this position will be part of the Finance team that is based in Lagos and Abuja Nigeria, led by the Head of Finance & Admin. You are expected to handle data entry, processing, and recording transactions, updating the ledger, assisting with audits or fact-checking, and preparing budgets and reports. You should be thorough, accurate, and honest with good bookkeeping skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure correct posting of transactions in the financial system (SAP) daily.
• Reconciling the company’s accounts payable and receivable 
• Liaising with internal and external auditors and deal with any financial irregularities as they arise 
• Tracking all payments to internal and external stakeholders 
• Assist with budget forecasts for the company
• Processing EEA Nigeria’s tax payments and returns 
• Continuous management of financial & Inventory systems  
• Producing reports and recommendations following internal audits or public sector audits
• Explaining billing invoices and accounting policies to staff, vendors and clients.
• Resolving accounting discrepancies.
• Assist in Month-end closing process and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Dealing with daily transactions for the petty cash and ensuring that reconciliations are completed on a weekly and monthly basis

Experience

• 2-4 years Accounting experience
• Experience in any major accounting system (SAP an advantage) with ability to work on spreadsheets.
• Excellent understanding of accounting policies, standards and processes
• Excellent attention to detail, thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task
• Technical skills and competence
• Team player and self-starter
• Ability to influence, inspire and motivate people who are not directly under your responsibility
• Computer literate with experience in using Accounting Systems
• Intermediate Excel skills, ability to work with lookups and pivot tables.
• Strong organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Awareness and ability to demonstrate the importance of ethics & appropriate codes of conduct in the workplace
• Ability to achieve daily targets while attending to impromptu activities that may occur

Qualifications

•  Degree or diploma in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or other related field

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Job Purpose/Mission  

We are looking for a talented, full-stack data scientist to join the digital team to help deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of data scientists and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale. . 

Responsibilities 

• Deploy and maintain data pipelines and machine learning models to predict repayment, solar system device performance, credit scoring and other metrics which are key to the business.  

• Contribute to design and maintenance of an analytics database to empower data-driven decisions by analysts and strategists across the organization. 

• Design randomized, controlled experiments to understand levers available to improve customer repayment. 

• Perform analyses, with statistical components as appropriate, for department leaders to evaluate the impact of pilots and other interventions. 

• Leverage external data sources to help EEA grow its business and maximize social impact on customers in emerging markets. 

• Train data users across nine markets and the global team on data tools / skills to grow data capacity and culture at EEA. 

Knowledge and skills  

Experience: 

• 3+ years of relevant experience 

• Strong Python, especially in a data analytics/science capacity (ex. pandas, numpy, sklearn, matplotlib) 

• Facility with MySQL/Redshift 

• Experience with experimental design, statistical analysis, and interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data. 

• Good knowledge of statistical tests and analysis 

• Ability to communicate model outputs and analyses to stakeholders at various levels of technical expertise

• Experience deploying predictive models at scale

• Keen eye for detail and thoughtful investigation of data before relying upon it

• Demonstrated expertise in strategic analysis to impact decisions

• Thrives on teamwork

• Bonus: Experience with financial data or credit scoring 

Qualifications: 

• MA or PhD in a relevant discipline (Data Science, Software Engineering, Statistics, or another relevant STEM field)  

Language(s):  

• English 

• French, Swahili or Portuguese is a plus 

 Technology: 

• Python or R, jupyter notebooks 

• Airflow (or other workflow management systems, such as Luigi) 

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, Cloudwatch, RDS, Redshift, Lambda, EMR, S3, SQS, EC2 

• AWS environment: Cloudwatch, RDS, Redshift, Lambda, EMR, SQS, EC2 

• Statistical analysis and predictive modeling in python (scipy, stats, sklearn, etc) 

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Job Purpose/Mission  

The Communications Manager is a key part of the Strategic Marketing department and responsible for the development and execution of strategic and tactical communications for the ENGIE Energy Access business across Africa. This role will combine both internal and external communication responsibilities, while contributing to the development and execution of the ENGIE Energy Access communications strategy that will position ENGIE Energy Access as the market leader within the industry, support growth within new and existing markets, and maintain and grow the ENGIE Energy Access culture through exceptional internal and external communications.

Responsibilities 

Internal Communications

• Manage the ENGIE Energy Access internal communication channels (newsletters, intranet, etc.), safeguarding the consistency of messages
• Develop monthly newsletter in collaboration with country teams and other departments
• Manage internal comms campaigns and support internal stakeholders’ comms needs

External Communications

• Write and design materials and contribute to the development of the ENGIE Energy Access website, create content for and manage the social media channels, write and design an external newsletter, support the preparation of press materials (press releases, Q&As, blog articles etc.) and follow up on PR opportunities for the ENGIE Energy Access organization

Events management

• Support the organization, coordination, and follow-up of internal and external communication events such as townhalls, webinars, exhibitions, conferences, press trips, delegations, etc.)

Country Support

• Play a key role in supporting the communications network across the ENGIE Energy Access countries
• Organize knowledge sharing and capacity building sessions for country teams to improve their communications effectiveness

Others

• Edit and manage the suite of ENGIE Energy Access media assets, including photographs, raw video footage and other relevant documents
• Support with the development of visual assets such as graphics, GIFs and videos

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports.  

We believe that great managers: 

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an enabling environment for effective action and bold decision which contribute to successful delivery of results. 
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness. 
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility. 
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening. 
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging. 

Knowledge and skills  

Experience :

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Communications/Marketing in large companies or equivalent experience in journalism or the media
• Ability to collaborate well with a multicultural and geographically dispersed network
• Excellent verbal, written, and digital communications skills
• Self-starter and ability to work independently
• Open, flexible and pragmatic mindset, passionate about energy and innovation
• Familiarity and experience managing social media channels
• Excellent project management skills paired with great attention to detail

Qualifications :

• Degree in Communications / Marketing / Journalism or Public Relations

 Language(s): 

• English
• French is a plus

 Technology :

• Knowledge of the latest communications related software, applications

Nice to have:

• Working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects
• Experience in creating SEO for websites
• Experience in digital marketing with special bias social media & community management