The Tanzania Clean Cooking Programme (TCCP) is a three-year, $3.75 million initiative that intends to improve the clean cooking industry and provide clean cooking to over 300,000 rural and underprivileged families in Tanzania. The program’s goal is to address the two-pronged dilemma of supply and demand by using new methods that de-risk private sector investments via supply-side grants and make clean cooking solutions more accessible through demand-side subsidies.
The program will incentivize and de-risk the private sector’s entry into these markets by using a direct matching grant financing facility along with technical assistance, aiming for the target markets to open and attract additional private sector actors by the end of the program period.
The key objectives of the programme are:
- Encourage private sector engagement in clean cooking solutions in underserved markets.
- Accelerate the adoption of clean cooking technologies via novel financial structures.
- Strengthen clean cooking sector coordination and push for a policy environment that supports a market-driven clean cooking industry.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop portfolio management strategies that are consistent with the program and the broader AECF operational and technical management strategy.
- Work with the AECF competition team to carry out competition operations, such as promoting open windows, analyzing concept notes and business plans, doing due diligence, assisting business plan development at the application stage, and contracting chosen firms.
- Responsible for delivering excellent investment performance and relationship management.
- Create outcomes measurement strategies with each investee firm, with the help of the AECF Impact Team.
- Lead the development and implementation of the investor’s performance monitoring operations, which include data verification exercises to assure program quality.
- Implementing the AECF’s grant management operational procedures, including assisting with the implementation of the Portfolio Management Information System (PMIS).
- Implementation of financial rules, processes, and system standards for grant beneficiaries.
- Ensure that all investor site inspections take place on a regular basis, in accordance with the agreed-upon timetable.
- Coordinate the identification of investors who need technical assistance and investment services and make arrangements to offer services in accordance with the AECF TA and learning service delivery framework.
- Reviewing monthly investor narratives and financial reports, as well as payment requests from the investor.
- Ensure that legal departments analyze and provide opinions on investors.
- Manage the flow of payments during implementation, advising the program manager on timeliness and any problems to resolve.
- As required, provide periodic program reports, information trends, and other pertinent information, as well as portfolio management reports.
- Contribute to the impact and learning agenda, focusing especially on the TCCP.
- Ensure ongoing development of portfolio relationship management via learning.
- With the knowledge and insights manager’s assistance, routinely implement lessons, emerging innovations, and best practices from investor project assessments, field visit reports, and project reports across the TCCP and the organization.
Qualifications
- Degree in business management, energy, economics, rural development, project management, development studies, or a related field.
- A minimum of five (5) years of expertise in private sector development and sustainable financing, ideally in Tanzania’s energy industry.
- Strong knowledge and practical expertise in the energy industry, especially clean cooking.
- Have the skills and expertise to build and appraise energy business cases.
- Have a proven track record in portfolio management, particularly in project due diligence monitoring, appraisal, reporting, and financial management for early-stage businesses.
- Have experience administering gender-responsive initiatives and investments.
- Possess strong analytical and communication abilities, including the ability to create portfolio analysis reports.
- Have a strong sense of initiative and enthusiasm, a “can-do” attitude, adaptability, collaboration, and attention to detail.
- Possess great interpersonal skills, including a strong work ethic, flawless ethics, and sound judgment.
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Mode of Applications:
The AECF is an equal opportunity employer. All applications shall be evaluated on merit, regardless of race, gender, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other feature protected by current law.
AECF does not collect any fees throughout the recruiting process.
Register and apply if you feel you can clearly show your ability to satisfy the position’s requirements. Applications must be submitted before November 1, 2024, to be considered.
Only the selected applicants will be contacted.