Education Requirements

Required

• An advanced University Degree (Master’s or equivalent) or higher degree in Energy, Law, Public Policy, Climate Change, Economics, Finance Sustainable Development, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with 7 years of relevant experience OR.
  
• First-level university degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent) in the above-mentioned fields with an additional nine (9) years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of an advanced degree.
  

Experience Requirements

Required

• Relevant work experience in energy transition, climate finance, or energy policy.
  
• Proven experience advising on energy transition strategies in Southeast Asia is required.
  
• Must be based in Southeast Asia.
  
• Experience working on coal transition, including early retirement transactions, coal flexibility.
  
• Experience working on transition finance instruments, taxonomies, sustainable finance.
  
• Experience engaging with different types of stakeholders including governments, financial institutions, development partners, industry actors.
  

Strategy Development and Advisory:

• Support the development and refinement of ETP’s coal phasedown strategies across focus countries, including approaches for integrating activities at the regional scale.
  
• Advise on ongoing and planned coal phasedown activities, including early retirement transactions, coal flexibility mechanisms, transition finance instruments and approaches, taxonomies, and support for enhancing relevant policy and regulations.
  
• Inform ETP’s strategic positioning and action by monitoring and identifying emerging developments and opportunities in coal transition, including shifts in policy and financing regulations, updates to national and regional taxonomies and national transition plans, evolving interest from independent power producers (IPPs), and changes in financial sector’s policies and transition finance.
  

Stakeholder Engagement and Dialogue:

• Support and participate in coal phasedown and transition finance dialogues and events on behalf of ETP.
  
• Support in designing and delivering ETP-organized workshops, dialogues and events on coal phasedown and transition finance.
  
• Support in expanding ETP’s network by initiating connections and building relationships with key actors in the coal transition ecosystem, including governments, financial institutions, multi-development banks, other development partners, IPPs, utilities, and other relevant industry stakeholders.
  

Knowledge Management:

• Support in capturing emerging insights, lessons learned from coal phasedown and transition finance initiatives.
  
• Support the development of knowledge products and case studies on coal phasedown and transition finance for internal and external audiences.
  
• Contribute to cross country learning by identifying transferable ideas and supporting their dissemination.
  
• Review and comment on reports or publications prepared by ETP and its Implementing Partners or relevant topics.
  
• General Support:
  
• Provide ad-hoc advisory support on other energy transition matters in the focus countries, particularly around policy and finance