This role at CLASP involves supporting the implementation and coordination of complex, fast-moving programs focusing on mitigating energy demand from appliances, lighting, and equipment, and promoting clean energy access.
CLASP is an impartial and independent nonprofit organization, first established in 1999 to mitigate the growing energy demand resulting from the use of appliances, lighting, and equipment. We work hand-in-hand with policymakers, governments, technical experts, industry, funding organizations, consumers and consumer groups, and others to improve energy efficiency.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintain and improve program infrastructure:
- Collaborate with global team members on the scoping, design, and execution of a complex, fast-moving project portfolio.
- Schedule internal team meetings and external funder and stakeholder meetings, circulate agenda and pre-meeting materials, and develop minutes/meeting notes.
- Utilize established and new tools for tracking program activities, impacts, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Collaborate with CLASP’s Finance, Operations, and Administrative Teams on vendor and consultant management, contract development, and invoice processing.
- Coordinate! Collaborate! Repeat!
- Work with CLASP colleagues, partners, stakeholders, sub-contractors, and grantees around the world to develop and implement programs, projects, and research efforts.
- Provide guidance to junior staff, i.e. coordinators, fellows, and interns, providing program orientation, training, and ad-hoc technical or operational assistance, as appropriate.
- Contribute to data management for the VeraSol Product Database, including maintaining up-to-date records and responding to internal and external requests for data analysis and data sharing.
- Coordinate the appliance testing process, including company outreach, sampling and shipping coordination, test report review, data cleaning and analysis, and results-sharing.
- Support the solar energy kit and appliance certification operations from initial company engagement to results-sharing through coordination with team members, test labs, and solar companies.
- Represent VeraSol in relevant industry events such as webinars and conferences.
- Support program outreach, stakeholder engagement, and reporting:
- Communicate program impacts and facilitate knowledge-sharing across various stakeholder groups, including industry leaders, trade associations, government decision makers, and donor organizations.
- Support engagement with governments and development programs on use and adoption of quality assurance frameworks.
- Contribute to project proposal development and grant reporting on programmatic activities, collecting input from team members, reviewing, and formatting the final product.
- Support content development for the VeraSol Newsletter and other communications campaigns and activities.
- Design and develop high quality and informational webinars, reports, and presentations, in collaboration with Communications Team members.
- Generate market and technology intelligence:
- Generate knowledge products, resources, and tools to inform and inspire impact-oriented actions.
- Conduct desk research, data collection, and analysis on appliance markets, policies, and solar appliance technologies.
Candidate Profile: Who You Are
- An Effective Collaborator: You have successfully worked across cultural lines on a dispersed team and can operate in complex situations. You gain trust from team members and support them to ensure success. You are not afraid to ask questions.
- Flexible: You can manage a diverse set of team needs and are comfortable stepping outside your job description or comfort zone to help the team reach its goals. You are comfortable with shifting schedules.
- A Humble Teammate: Nothing is beneath or above you. You are quick to lend a hand and earn influence without authority, seeking to support both small projects and large strategic goals.
- An Abundant Thinker: You bring relentless curiosity and creativity to every task, project, and engagement.
- Mission-oriented: You believe in CLASP’s mission and are passionate about climate change, energy efficiency, and creating a more sustainable world.
The Ideal Candidate Requirements
- Minimum two to five years of professional experience in energy efficiency, clean energy, engineering, environmental science, business, international development, economics, public policy or energy is required.
- You have good customer-facing skills. These qualities include being patient, understanding, and proactive to address the needs and inquiries from companies seeking certification services.
- Collaborative, solutions-oriented team member who is comfortable working across geographies and time zones.
- Experience in rural electrification, productive use technology, renewable energy, and/or related areas is preferred.
- Willing to work in projects related to clean energy access.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., engineering, international relations, environmental science, economics, energy studies) required or equivalent professional/academic qualifications.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
- Ability to handle multiple deadlines and complete assignments with minimal supervision in a fast-paced workplace.
- Strong analytical skills, including experience with Excel and/or other analytical software and the ability to translate analysis into policy recommendations is highly preferred.
- Strong work ethic and an ability to take initiative; a drive to learn and grow on the job.
- Strong time management and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple tasks and projects at a time.
- A commitment to diversity and inclusion. You have experience working with diverse teams and successfully navigating cross-cultural communication in both local and global contexts, and you deeply value creating a workplace that is supportive of difference.
