Senior Associate, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves- Washington DC
Organization: United Nations Foundation
Position Title: Senior Associate, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Location: 1750 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC, 20006, US
Hours and Compensation:
Salary commensurate with experience. Actual salary will depend on qualifications and anticipated contribution to the Foundation.
UNF pays 100% of medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance premiums for its employees and 75% of medical and vision for employees’ dependents.
Application Deadline: January 13, 2014
Organization Overview
The UN Foundation, a public charity, was created in 1998 with entrepreneur and philanthropist Ted Turner’s historic $1 billion gift to support UN causes and activities. We are an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems.
We help the UN take its best work and ideas to scale—through advocacy, partnerships, constituency building and fund-raising.
Description
The Senior Associate will provide programmatic leadership and administrative support to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves in the area of clean fuels for cooking, including coordinating programs and projects, budget planning, managing partnerships and knowledge, and developing resources and tools. S/he will be an active and contributing member of the Programs team. S/he will also work closely with the Markets, Communications, and Partnerships teams on issues related to communications, market development, and partner and donor engagement. The role will be in support of the Alliance’s overall mission to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women, and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions.
Working Relationships
- The Senior Associate reports to the Senior Technical Manager.
Responsibilities
Program management and administration (70%)
- Design, manage, and provide technical and strategic guidance regarding the Alliance’s portfolio of fuel-focused activities, including grants, contracts, events, research, reports, and tools, including budget planning. Relevant fuels for the Alliance’s mission include wood, agricultural residues, processed biomass (e.g. pellets, briquettes, minimally processed biomass), charcoal, ethanol, biogas, LPG, and solar energy.
- Track and monitor ongoing studies, research, and fuels activities to ensure that the Alliance and its partners are operating with the most accurate and current information, including sharing information through the Alliance’s knowledge hub and expanding the Clean Cooking Catalog to include fuel options
- Develop requests for proposals, administer application review and selection process, oversee projects and review project reports to ensure timeliness and progress to achieve goals and impact
- Support the development of proposals and grant reports to respond to donor requests in the Fuels space based on overall strategy and budget plan
- Support Alliance team with technical input on fuels-related research and programmatic activities
- Coordinate integration and development of fuels standards related to sustainability, use, and safety. In addition, provide technical and administrative support for building global capacity for testing fuels
- Collaborate on developing fuels projects that increase the involvement of women for improved livelihoods and that address humanitarian settings in which limited fuel access impacts health and safety
- Support monitoring and evaluation efforts on global fuels activities, including identification of measurable indicators, on resource availability, production and processing, sales, distribution, and adoption
Partner engagement, outreach, and communication (10%)
- Organize events to convene the fuels for cooking sector and represent Alliance in fuels-related events
- Coordinate activities in global and focus country efforts (currently in Bangladesh, China, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Nigeria), including planning, logistics, and coordinating meeting minutes and action items
- Engage with global fuels initiatives to develop collaborations and coordinate activities
- Develop partnerships with the Alliance’s fuels-focused partners and address queries from partners related to fuels
- Develop and write content for reports, blogs, website and through social media to communicate about the Alliance’s and its partners fuels activities to multiple audiences
Market and Consumer Activities (10%)
- Technical support for grant, investment, and capacity building activities targeted to enterprise development related to fuel production and distribution
- Coordination with Regional Market Managers working in Alliance focus countries to ensure alignment of global fuels strategy and activities with country and regional priorities and activities
- Technical support for consumer studies and awareness campaigns related to fuel perception, acceptance, and use
Overall Support of Alliance initiatives (10%)
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in related field required, e.g. environmental science, agriculture, forestry, sustainable development, or mechanical engineering. PhD preferred.
- At least 3-5years of work experience in relevant area, e.g. environmental conservation, fuel sustainability or production, or energy production
- Proven analytical and project management skills, including the ability to move projects forward from inception to implementation to completion with adherence to deadlines;
- Strong communications skills (speaking, writing, editing, and listening); with attention to detail and broad strategy and experience communicating to different audiences
- Ability to follow instructions thoroughly while also providing a strategic and critical eye to identify and address additional gaps;
- Ability and experience in developing, maintaining, and enjoying effective working relationships with people, internally and externally, from a wide variety of types of organizations, cultural backgrounds, and with a wide variety of functional expertise;
- Willingness to travel, including internationally
- Flexibility, openness to new challenges, and the ability to thrive as part of a highly functioning, fast-paced group of professionals and to prioritize competing demands;
- Self-starter with the desire for continuous learning and the ability to synthesize information and respond positively to constructive feedback;
- Ability to meet regular attendance/tardiness policy;
- Ability to represent the organization with professionalism, diplomacy and self-confidence;
- Personal commitment to the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and United Nations Foundation’s missions; demonstrated knowledge of global issues and the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and United Nations Foundation’s programs and goals.
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