Manager Impact India And Southeast Asia

Contract type: Fulltime, Open ended

Overview of the role

Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet’s goals are bold and audacious. We recognize that the path to a just energy transition worldwide will be complex, non-linear, and filled with successes and opportunities, alongside failures and challenges. The Manager, Impact, India and Southeast Asia will support our effort to measure our contribution to impact through evaluations, monitoring and learning.  Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) is embedded within our operating model, to ensure that we have an ear to the ground so we remain responsive and opportunistic, while generating insights that support continuous improvement.

Stepping into a start-up environment, the Manager, Impact, India and Southeast Asia will lead monitoring, evaluation and learning for the India and Southeast Asia portfolio, guided by the organization’s Impact framework. They will also lead impact measurement for the Grids of the Future pillar across all regions, and provide monitoring and analytics support across the global portfolio. They will be responsible for independently establishing the routine and long-term work component of these workstreams, ensuring that they are efficiently managed and executed.

Accountabilities

1. 1. Monitoring: Providing backend impact data quality assurance for all India and Southeast Asia transactions. Provide technical advice on target setting, indicators, theory of change mechanisms, causality links for the India and Southeast Asia portfolio. Onboard and train program teams on results monitoring sheets – ensuring compliance. They will also support the monitoring function across the global portfolio, including data compilation, quality checks and analytics for quarterly impact reporting, working alongside the Alliance’s external monitoring and learning partner.
   2. Grids of the Future impact: Leading impact measurement for the Grids of the Future pillar across all regions. Developing and maintaining expected-impact estimates for utility partnerships, grid digitalization, battery energy storage and distributed energy resource programs, working with program teams and external modelling partners. Tracking realized impact against expected impact as programs move through the pipeline, and designing evaluations of utility-level outcomes such as reliability, losses and effects on consumers.
   3. Evaluation: Sourcing and managing independent evaluation partners working closely with the Director of Evaluation. Establishing the pulse on what needs evaluation and when by closely working with the India and Southeast Asia and Grids of the Future teams in sourcing evaluation questions. Selecting fit for purpose evaluation approaches and tools and sense checking their design and functionality.
   4. Learning: Support the team in designing and managing ongoing reflection, sense-making, and learning from the work to inform potential shifts in strategy when necessary, using data and evidence to rationalize change.
   5. Capacity building: Onboarding, training and operationalizing Impact functions in country teams, solution teams and hiring monitoring evaluation and learning consultants. Ensuring that all requirements per the Impact framework are met in the investment cycle for all India and Southeast Asia programs.
   6. Systems integration: Ensuring the internal Global Energy Alliance systems tracking progress on program implementation, financial execution and impact measuring are integrating, working in close collaboration with the IT systems manager, the management teams for country programs and scalable solutions and the Investment team.
   7. Advisory function: Advising global Impact colleagues and external technical providers by ground truthing India and Southeast Asia portfolio realities.

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

Preferred attributes

• Working in Partnership: Learning with, learning from, and learning for our partners, particularly those who are closest to the work on the ground. Balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders and working in partnership wherever possible.
• Directs Work: Being strategic with efforts and generating information that informs decision making and improves impact. Providing direction and removing obstacles to get work done.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Values Differences: Recognizes the value of different perspectives and commits to inclusion, equity, and diversity in every aspect of work.
• Intellectual Humility: We know that we don’t have all the answer. We strive to be equally comfortable talking about what is not working as we are celebrating our successes. We listen to the voices of those we serve.
• Innovation and Entrepreneurial Spirit: A self-starter who takes initiative to identify areas of improvement and uses an energetic, pragmatic, and creative approach to optimize practice; embodying ‘Start-Up Philosophy.’

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• 10-15 years of experience in monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
• Advanced degree in relevant subjects such as economics, public policy, or similar areas with strong training in evaluation, monitoring and learning.
• Experience in developing best-in-class monitoring, evaluation and learning approaches including designing and establishing these systems from scratch. Ideal experience gained in a complex organizational environment.
• Substantial experience of monitoring, evaluation and learning in the context of climate and energy programs, and/or programs driving systems change. Experience with contribution analysis will be a plus.
• Experience measuring the impact of grid infrastructure, utility performance or battery energy storage programs, including modelling expected impacts and validating them against realized results.
• Experience working in India and Southeast Asia, with familiarity with the region’s energy sector, utilities and government programs.
• Experience working independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with contractors, consultants to ensure value for money and quality actionable outcomes.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong writing skills.
• Expertise in STATA, R or similar software packages, and MS Excel.
• Experience with Power BI or other dashboard tools, data engineering and applied use of AI tools for analysis will be a plus.

Please submit your application on or before 2 October COB. The Global Energy Alliance reserves the right to close the job advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.