EnergyLab Cambodia is an innovative and efficient not-for-profit organisation (https://energylab.asia/). We were established in Cambodia in 2018. Since then, our partners have come to see us as independent, insightful and resourceful, with a transparent agenda to support clean energy.
We are and have been funded by a variety of organisations, including DFAT, EU via Switch Asia, British Embassy, German Foundations (Konrad and HBS), USAID, UNDP.
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Category:
Engineering, Economics, Law, Business Administration, Media
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Type :
Job Opportunity
- Location:
Phnom Penh
- Schedule: Full-time
- Salary:
N/A
Overall role: To support EnergyLab and our partners to understand and promote the opportunities and challenges the clean energy transition can bring for Cambodia.
Objective of the role: To support Cambodia towards a clean energy transition without new coal power that leads to a more competitive, inclusive and resilient economy.
Report to: Policy Director
- Work with the Policy Director and across EnergyLab to deliver our living strategy by providing impactful advocacy and ecosystem support, leveraging EnergyLab’s deep political economy experience and knowledge.
- Build and share insightful knowledge related to the market, policy, technical and commercial aspects of the clean energy transition (locally, regionally and globally) as it relates to Cambodia, while keeping the focus on the key aspects that will be critical for increasing clean energy.
- Provide efficient support to our network of stakeholders to accelerate the clean energy transition in Cambodia, including Policy makers, Development partners, NGOs, think tanks and universities, Business and Industry representatives.
- Co-ordinate a range of activities with stakeholders to promote and engage in meaningful policy and strategic dialogue on the opportunities and challenges of the clean energy transition in Cambodia.
- Support our Communication and Program teams to promote understanding and engagement with clean energy.
Requirements
- Qualifications:
- A master level graduate with at least 4 years of professional experience. Professions could be in engineering, economics, law, public policy, business, journalism, communications, technology, education or advocacy.
- Experience working as part of the clean energy transition, such as in renewable energy, energy efficiency or distributed energy is desirable.
- Experience in policy, advocacy and guiding the ‘big-picture’ aspects of the energy transition would be a particular advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders towards strategic goals with an ability to simplify complexity and communicate towards these strategic goals.
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal, both in English and Khmer.
- Personal Qualities:
- Passionate about the clean energy transition
- Strategic, swiftly detecting and acting on opportunities.
- Enjoys building strategic relationships, collaborating and actively seeking out those who can support clean energy
- Proactive, hard-working, positive, humble, flexible and adaptable
- Enjoys problem solving, thinking strategically to get the most impact and best outcomes in creative collaborative ways
- Not afraid to ask advice, seek opinions and be flexible
- Embrace impeccable professional ethics and transparency
- EnergyLab Principles:
- We are positive: we understand opportunities and challenges as two sides of the same coin. We encourage positive progress and we focus on opportunities. Critical thinking is ok, negativity and blame is not.
- We are impact driven: understanding the systems in which we operate and their complexity is fundamental. Helping those systems to be more people inclusive, more equal, and to deliver cleaner energy, is a must.
- We embrace new ideas and innovation.
- We are humble: we seek advice when we do not know and we listen. We do not succeed all the time, but we learn fast from our misunderstandings.
- We think out of the box to find creative ways to achieve positive results.
- We work with and support partners to build the ecosystem and encourage collaboration.
