With global renewable energy capacity projected to double over the next five years, reaching set global energy targets hinges on harnessing the untapped clean energy potential of fragile and conflict-affected markets.
Working with our partner PeaceNexus, International Alert seeks to explore the practical challenges facing renewable energy investors in fragile settings, and support the investment capabilities and processes needed to realise both financial and peace-positive returns.
To achieve this, we are looking for an excellent candidate to design and deliver up to four rounds of strategic conversations with a small group of investors and policymakers. These will explore successful examples of peace positive investments, renewable energy investors’ challenges and needs, and external barriers to investment.
You will use your technical expertise and facilitation skills to build consensus on concrete and tailored investor and policy actions for investing in renewable energy in fragile settings.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced consultant familiar with structuring private investments for projects in developing markets, and with experience in the renewable energy sector.
Role duties and responsibilities:
1. Process design: Co-creating a work plan for investor, policymaker and other relevant stakeholder engagements, together with PeaceNexus and International Alert. This should respond to the project’s vision and goal. It includes ensuring the process is relevant to the specific interests, incentives and constraints of each stakeholder.
2. Facilitating engagements: Preparing and leading an initial one-on-one engagement with investors to set the scene, understand their investment experience and capture their process expectations/interests. This will be followed by up to 4 rounds of collective strategic engagements (around ~2 hours each) with investors and policy actors to identify successful examples of peace positive investments, investors’ challenges and needs, external barriers to investment, and to build consensus on concrete and tailored investor and policy actions for investing in renewable energy in fragile settings. It is anticipated that the project will engage with 3-4 investors, alongside relevant government policymakers and development finance institutions. Engagements will predominantly be undertaken remotely.
3. Findings and recommendations: The project will result in a short paper summarising investor needs and opportunities to realise peace positive renewable energy investments in fragile settings, alongside recommendations for policy and best practice. This should be accompanied by a redacted public-facing summary which presents broad policy and practice issues and contributes to wider policy debates.
Depending on the conversations, the report could incorporate, for example:
- Challenges around investing in renewable energy in fragile settings
- Peace positive practice examples and any key success factors
- Co-created recommendations incorporating:
- Investor needs (e.g. partnerships, capacity, tools)
- Policy solutions to remove external barriers to investment
- Research to fill knowledge gaps
- Examples of best practice
4. Strategy development: Participating in a follow up session to co-design a theory of change and plan through which PeaceNexus and International Alert could effectively address identified needs and contribute to wider efforts for a system change around peace positive renewable energy investment.
Please note that the above are just some of the requirements for this role. For the full requirements, please click here to view the terms of reference.
How to apply
International Alert prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer and particularly welcomes applications from underrepresented people including women, people from the Global South, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people, and other historically marginalised people.
While International Alert will endeavour to contact all candidates within a reasonable time, this may not always be possible due to limited resources. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date, you can assume that your application has, on this occasion, been unsuccessful.