{"id":42482,"date":"2019-11-19T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=42482"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:11:10","slug":"african-development-bank-staffing-now-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/african-development-bank-staffing-now-2019.html","title":{"rendered":"African Development Bank Staffing Now 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. There are 80 member states, including 54 in Africa (i.e. Regional Member Countries).\u00a0 The Bank\u2019s development agenda is delivering the financial and technical support for transformative projects that will significantly reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable economic growth. In order to sharply focus the objectives of the Ten Year Strategy (2013 \u2013 2022) and ensure greater developmental impact, five major areas (High 5s), all of which will accelerate our delivery for Africa, have been identified for scaling up, namely; energy, agro-business, industrialization, integration and improving the quality of life for the people of Africa.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Principal Power Engineer<\/strong><\/p>\n THE COMPLEX:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Vice Presidency for \u2018Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth\u2019 is a Sector Complex focusing on the Bank\u2019s Ten-Year Strategy and High 5s priority of \u201cLight up and Power Africa\u201d. The complex\u2019s objectives are (i) to develop policy and strategy; (ii) provide deep sector technical expertise to the Regions by gathering a pool of experienced individuals who can be consulted for their expertise on complicated transactions; (iii) develop new financing instruments; (iv) act as spoke person to represent the Bank with external stakeholders on all aspects of \u201cLight Up and Power Africa\u201d. The Complex will focus on areas of power systems, policy and regulation, renewable energy; and, climate and green growth.<\/p>\n THE HIRING DEPARTMENT\/DIVISION:<\/strong><\/p>\n Within this new Complex, there is a Directorate in charge of Power Systems Development. This Directorate includes the \u201cPower Utilities\u201d Division, which supports the Bank\u2019s Regional Member Countries and their Utilities, Regional Economic Communities, Power Pools, Regulators and other stakeholders to develop and improve their power systems both for sovereign (SO) and non-sovereign operations (NSO).<\/p>\n THE POSITION:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Principal Power Engineer will be responsible for the technical design, appraisal and supervision of the Bank\u2019s projects\/programs in the support of transactions linked to lending and non-lending operations involving public and private sector investments in the electricity sector. S\/he will provide deep sectoral expertise related to the planning, technical structuring, financing and implementation of power and utility reform projects\/programs across the project cycle and power value chain (i.e. fuel supply, power generation, transmission, and distribution\/retail). This will involve the entire gamut of reforms (i.e. management contracts to full divestiture) to enhance and facilitate sustainable utility transformation (to profitability), performance benchmarking \/ knowledge sharing and provision of quality advisory services, required for successful sector reforms and restructuring of utilities. S\/he will work in multi-disciplinary teams and contribute to the delivery of the New Deal on Energy for Africa \/ High 5 flagships as required.<\/p>\n Duties and responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n Under the overall supervision of the Manager, Power Utilities, the incumbent will perform the following:<\/p>\n Selection Criteria<\/strong><\/p>\n Established in 1964, the African Development Bank is the premier pan-African development institution, promoting economic growth and social progress across the continent. There are 80 member states, including 54 in…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-b3c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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