Background
GAYO’s Energy portfolio advances equitable access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy by combining youth- and gender-responsive programming with practical community engagement, capacity building, and stakeholder coordination. The portfolio is designed to ensure energy transition efforts translate into real outcomes, productive-use electricity (PUE) for livelihoods and local enterprise, inclusive participation and decision-making, and implementation pathways that are socially fair, economically viable, and climate-aligned.
Within this portfolio, RePower is a flagship four-year Horizon Europe project improving renewable energy access in off-grid African communities through modular, plug-and-play microgrids integrating solar PV, battery energy storage (BESS), and agri-waste biomass CHP (BCHP), coordinated by an intelligent energy management system (EMS). This approach increases renewable energy penetration, strengthens reliability and resilience, and is projected to reduce electricity costs by 60-70% compared to conventional microgrid solutions. The Project Coordinator will lead delivery coordination for GAYO’s RePower commitments, driving implementation planning, partner and stakeholder engagement, reporting, and evidence generation to support impact and replication.
Job Tittle:Project Coordinator, Energy
Duration:2 Years
Location:Any African country
Start Date:Immediately
Reports To:Climate Director
Contract duration: 1 year (renewable)
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Working language: English (French is an asset)
Salary: Between GH¢ 7,000 and GH¢ 9,000, depending on experience and qualifications.
Project Context and Current Delivery Stage
GAYO’s Energy portfolio is advancing equitable access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy by combining youth-and gender-responsive programming with practical community engagement, capacity building, and stakeholder coordination The portfolio spans multiple workstreams, including community energy access, productive-use electricity (PUE) for livelihoods, youth and women energy enterprise pathways, and enabling environment partnerships, implemented through a mix of active grants and a growing project pipeline.
In 2025, the portfolio consolidated delivery foundations and advanced early implementation milestones across partner countries through:
- Community entry and engagement processes that strengthen community ownership, map priorities, and establish
- clear participation and safeguarding protocols
- Capacity-building and livelihoods/PUE readiness support (training, opportunity identification, and action planning)
- that translates energy access into local economic outcomes for youth and women.
- Baseline profiling, stakeholder alignment, and implementation readiness steps (mapping, coordination, and logistics)
- that de-risk delivery and improve sequencing for subsequent phases
- Cross-country learning and visibility efforts that position GAYO’s energy work within broader policy and practice discussions on inclusive, scalable rural electrification and just transition.
As one component of this portfolio, RePower delivered community engagement and training milestones in Senegal (Niomoune), Madagascar, and Niger, reaching 300+ participants through gender-responsive participation and identifying priority livelihood opportunities linked to PUE (eg, irrigation, ice-making, milling, and small-scale trading).
Initial Strategic Priorities (First 12-18 Months)
In the first 12-18 months, the Coordinator will play a leading role in:
1. Operationalize a portfolio-wide delivery system by translating portfolio plans into a single, integrated workplan (activities, owners, dependencies, timelines, and budgets) with clear governance, quality control, and escalation pathways. This system should support multiple concurrent projects while ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, donor requirements, and community priorities..
2. Strengthen the Energy pipeline and program design (including initiatives such as Charge Africa) by developing
implementable project designs, partnership packages, and resource-mobilization materials that complement existing grants and expand portfolio depth and sustainability. 3. Deliver inclusive, community-owned implementation across energy workstreams by standardizing community entry
protocols, embedding youth and women’s participation and leadership, and translating community-identified PUE opportunities into practical livelihood and enterprise pathways with partners.
4. Institutionalize evidence, accountability, and learning across the Energy portfolio by operationalizing a harmonized MEAL and evidence system that meets donor standards, supports audits, and generates decision-ready learning products for scale and replication.
5. Deepen partner, government, and ecosystem coordination to de-risk delivery and enable scale by proactively managing relationships with donors, consortium/implementing partners, Ministry of Energy and relevant institutions, local authorities, technical actors, and private-sector stakeholders, aligning incentives and positioning successful models for sustainability and co-investment.
Roles and Responsibilities
Portfolio Delivery Leadership and Project Management
- Lead day-to-day planning, coordination, and execution of GAYO’s Energy portfolio workplan across multiple initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, donor requirements, and community priorities.
- Coordinate internal staff, consultants, and implementing partners supporting engagements, training, communications, and logistics across the portfolio.
- Maintain a live, integrated delivery tracker that covers activities, owners, deadlines, dependencies, and risks; drive corrective actions and escalations when slippage occurs.
- Support budget execution with finance and operations, ensuring value-for-money procurement, timely payments, and accurate financial documentation across energy projects.
Donor, Consortium, Government, and Stakeholder Coordination
- Serve as a focal point for donor and partner coordination across energy grants and programs (including consortium projects such as RePower and pipeline initiatives such as Charge Africa), ensuring timely follow-up and clear accountability.
- Maintain structured coordination with the Ministry of Energy and relevant government agencies to support policy alignment, enabling environment engagement, and country-level delivery pathways.
- Lead stakeholder engagement planning and relationship management across local authorities, traditional/community leadership, women and youth groups, private-sector actors, and technical institutions.
- Represent GAYO confidently in external meetings, technical sessions, and public-facing events, providing accurate updates and safeguarding organizational credibility.
Youth- and Gender-Responsive Delivery and PUE Pathways
- Design and deliver community engagement and capacity-building approaches that build practical understanding of energy technologies and strengthen inclusive participation and decision-making
- Translate community-identified productive-use electricity (PUE) opportunities into implementable livelihood and enterprise pathways (skills, equipment, market linkages, financing options, and partners).
- Develop and manage a PUE opportunity pipeline and an implementation-readiness plan, coordinating with technical partners and livelihoods actors to move opportunities from identification to action.
- Ensure safeguarding, ethical engagement, and responsible data practices are applied across community-facing activities, especially when working with vulnerable groups.
Evidence, Reporting, and Learning
- Coordinate portfolio-wide results tracking, SDG7 contribution assessment (where required), and evidence generation to meet, donoripartner reporting standards and support audits.
- Ensure MEAL tools, data capture, and evidence management are implemented and quality-checked across projects, in line with donor requirements and the MEAL system described below.
- Coordinate and quality-assure technical inputs to reports and learning products (eg, briefs, learning notes, toolkits, case studies), working closely with the M&E and Communications functions to meet deadlines and visibility standards.
Ghana and Country Pilot Delivery Support
- Support identification, structuring, and delivery coordination for Ghana and other country pilots/replication pathways (eg, off-grid and island/lakeside communities), including community entry planning, stakeholder mobilisation, and inclusive engagement design.
- Work with technical partners to align community priorities with system design assumptions, implementation sequencing, and operational readiness: document learning to inform national and regional guidance.
Monitoring. Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL)
- Develop and operationalize a MEAL plan for GAYO’s portfolio contributions, including tools for participant tracking, inclusion metrics, training effectiveness, and outcome measurement.
- Coordinate after-action reviews following key engagements and trainings; translate findings into clear improvement actions
- Maintain an evidence repository (attendance, photos, consent where required, meeting notes, training outputs, action plans, case studies) that supports reporting and audits.
Reporting, Knowledge Products, and Scale-Readiness
- Produce high-quality internal briefs and external reports that are decision-ready, accurate, and aligned to donor/consortium formats and timelines.
- Draft and package knowledge products (policy briefs, leaming notes, case studies, toolkits) that reflect GAYO’s implementation experience and strengthen replication prospects.
- Coordinate communications inputs (stories, visuals, key messages) with GAYO’s communications function while ensuring technical accuracy and safeguarding commitments.
Risk Management, Safeguarding, and Compliance
- Maintain an active project risk register (delivery, safety, reputational, financial, safeguarding) and implement mitigation actions with clear owners.
- Ensure safeguarding, ethical practices, and responsible data use are applied in community engagements, especially when working with vulnerable groups.
- Ensure compliance with consortium requirements, GAYO policies, and applicable donor visibility and documentation standards.
Profile Experience and Competencies
Required Experience
- At least 5 years of progressive experience in project/program coordination or management in clean energy access, climate, development, or related fields (multi-stakeholder and community-facing work required).
- Proven experience managing donor-funded projects, including workplanning, budgeting support, reporting, partner coordination, and risk management.
- Demonstrated experience designing and delivering capacity-building programs, training, or community engagement processes.
- Experience working with government counterparts and/or policy processes is strongly preferred.
Technical and Domain Knowledge
- Strong working understanding of decentralized renewable energy systems and rural electrification pathways (eg. PV, battery storage, biomass/clean cooking linkages, microgrid operations).
- Solid grounding in just transition concepts, energy access equity, gender and social inclusion (GESI), and productive use of electricity.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into practical community-ready engagements and implementation plans.
Required Competencies
- Delivery leadership disciplined planning, execution, and follow-through across multiple concurrent workstreams
- Stakeholder management, confident facilitation, negotiation, and relationship-building with government, communities, and partners.
- Analytical strength ability to work with indicators, evidence, and learning, and to produce clear, credible reports.
- Communication excellent writing and presentation skills; able to communicate complex topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Integrity and accountability, high ethical standards, strong judgment, and commitment to safeguarding and inclusion.
Added Advantage
- French language ability is an asset (given multi-country engagement).
- Experience with SDG measurement, results frameworks, or impact evaluation in energy/development contexts
- Experience supporting entrepreneurial/SME development, workforce development, or youth employment programs
Working Relationships
Reports to: Climate Director
Key internal relationships: Operations and Programs Director, M&E Officer, Finance Lead; Partnerships/Grants:
Communications: National Directors
Key external relationships: Ministry of Energy and relevant government stakeholders (Ghana replication site and enabling environment), RePower consortium partners and country teams (Senegal, Madagascar, Niger) for coordination, learning, and reporting.
Application Dealine 27 February 2026
METHOD OF APPLICATION
1.Prepare your application package, consisting of a one-page cover letter stating your interest in the role and
highlighting your relevant achievements, and a recent CV, both merged into a single PDF. Ensure your application
package is accessible and does not exceed 5 MB.
2.Access the application form at: https://bit.ly/EnergyProjectCoordinatorApplication.
3.Be sure to complete the form fully with your accurate information before submitting it. Please note that
applications received after the deadline cannot be considered.
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