Advisor – Clean Cooking Market Development
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Advisor – Clean Cooking Market Development
Job title
Advisor – Clean Cooking Market Development
Organisation
GIZ
City
Dar es Salaam
Country
- United Republic of Tanzania
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa
Type of job
temporary contract
Duration
14 months
Sector
Other
Language of description
English
Job description
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, implement, and quality-assure the Technical Capacity Development, Market Development and Awareness Promotion workstreams; manage budgets, contracts with external specialised service providers, timelines, risks, and partner interfaces; lead monitoring, data quality, and knowledge products; ensure technical quality and coherence of technical assistance activities.
Specific Tasks
Technical Capacity Development of HTC companies
- Design, implement and monitor activities around Quality Assurance and Testing of clean cooking devices, including Minimum Energy Performance Standards for eCooking and Tier 3 efficiency and emissions testing for biomass-based improved cookstoves.
- Coordinate the technical assistance activities carried out by specialised service providers for scaling manufacturing and production, including topics like improving stove and appliance design, procurement of advanced production equipment and tooling, bulk procurement of raw materials and supporting industrialisation processes.
- Design, implement and monitor activities for scaling distribution, including supporting companies in their commercial development of retail network and the diversification of their client base, the piloting of shared agent networks and other innovations around efficient distribution channels.
- Support the further development of EnDev Tanzania’s clean cooking market development approach.
Market Development
- Design, implement and monitor activities to increase the capacity and efficacy of the business associations (TACCS, TAREA) in representing the clean cooking private sector and advocating for policy and fiscal reforms.
- Coordinate the collection of market-wide data and the publication of regular market intelligence reports, as well as the organisation of knowledge exchange formats (events, workshops, webinars, conferences), in collaboration with the business associations.
Awareness promotion
- Design, implement and monitor activities around market activation, awareness campaigns and demand creation, in synergy with public actors (TANESCO, Clean Cooking Unit of the Ministry of Energy), other development partners (MECS) and business associations.
- Integrate gender-sensitive approaches and behavioural change best-practices for consumer awareness and product adoption.
Other tasks
Promotion of synergies and partner management
- Identify and promote synergies and cooperation with other GIZ operations, development partners, sector associations, education, and research institutions in the HTC sector.
- Maintain and cultivate sound relations with the public sector, sector stakeholders, development actors as well as the private sector.
- Knowledge management, M&E and other tasks
- Prepare and implement activities such as events, conferences, webinars, workshops, assessments, studies, pilots and field research as needed.
- Regularly update the project manager and EnDev team members on the progress of ongoing and planned activities and key sector trends.
- Support the preparation of reports and project proposals as needed.
- Support/lead the preparation of factsheets, presentations, articles and other communication and visibility materials as needed.
- Support EnDev Tanzania in monitoring and evaluation including the data collection, verification, and analysis and documentation of lessons learned from the market development and other activities.
- Supervise and guide consultants.
- Comply with procedures within GIZ, such as tenders and contracts with third parties.
Other Duties/ Additional Tasks
- Perform other duties and tasks at the request of management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, renewable energy, environmental science, or business with a strong technical component; a Master's degree in a relevant field is preferred.
Professional experience
- At least 5 years of professional experience, of which a minimum of 3 years in clean cooking, off-grid energy, or closely related energy access markets.
- At least 2 years of relevant professional experience in business operations, distribution chains and retail structures.
- At least 2 years of active engagement with the private sector.
- At least 1 year of relevant professional experience with knowledge management, organisation of events or publication of knowledge products.
Other knowledge, additional competences
- Ability to process, analyse and synthesise complex technical information from different disciplines in the areas of energy, business, multi-stakeholder approaches, knowledge management among others.
- Ability to network, build and maintain professional relationships with government, development partners and private stakeholders.
- Comprehensive understanding of the Tanzanian HTC sub-sector and its trends.
- Exposure to technical aspects of cooking devices standards and testing.
- Computer literacy with excellent knowledge of MS Office (especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint) as well as online meeting and conference tools.
- Project and contract management skills including steering multiple tasks under tight deadlines.
- Strong organisational skills, self-motivation, and ability to work independently.
- Highly motivated to work in a multicultural and inter-disciplinary team.
- Excellent oral and written English language skills.
- Excellent communication, organisation, and presentation skills.
Application deadline
2026/06/29
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