Technical Advisor - Johannesburg
Employ Africa
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Contract
- Full-time
- Support the management of all client working groups.
- Co-ordinate industry positions on key strategic matters that emanate from various platforms.
- Support the development and implementation of client research objectives.
- Advance the Association's thought leadership position through thought pieces.
- Interrogate national and energy policies and generate considered responses to such policies.
- Engage stakeholder and represent the association at various platforms.
- Support Management, consultants, and staff to undertake the objectives of this position.
- Project co-ordination of internal projects, workshops and/or webinars to ensure relevant dialogue amongst stakeholders.
- Client has eight working groups namely: Assets, Economic Development, Environmental, Gender Diversity, Legal, Manufacturers & Local Content, Policy & Markets and Technical. The role includes:
- Co-ordinate all working group meetings.
- Align working group agendas with the client strategic plan and business plan.
- Provide value, secretariate, and administrative support from the client office.
- Drive participation of representatives in key focus areas of all working groups
- Support working group chairs to manage key actions.
- Facilitate alignment between the Client CEO and Working Groups as well as between related Working Groups.
- Support the aims and objectives.
- Co-ordinate relevant data access points.
- Support management and consultants to create a user-friendly data collection, management, and reporting platform.
- Collection and presentation of publicly available data for market intelligence purposes, both on the website and in thought as well as policy response pieces in an easy-to-understand manner.
- Constant liaison with wind farms and other data owners to improve the flow of data to the client office.
- Support in the creation and coordination of all client events, including networking events which advance the objectives of client and its working groups.
- Support the creation of annual wind energy reports based on the data collected.
- Support research objectives related to various industry specific topics such as wind energy & storage, role of wind energy in just energy transition, wind energy market diversification (private, municipal PPAs), offshore wind market, etc.
- Support fundraising initiatives for wind industry research.
- Use the research data responsibly to create/support industry positions.
- Co-ordinating industry comments on policies impacting the wind energy sector client representative ensuring that the associations interests are well-represented and served.
- Representing client in external forums by regularly attending events as an official
- Performing any other duties as delegated by the CEO.