Program Fellow, Energy & Opportunity -2 positions

Role Overview

The Energy & Opportunity (E&O) portfolio drives the Alliance’s mission to unlock jobs, livelihoods, and inclusive economic transformation through productive use of energy. The Fellow will play a vital supporting role in advancing this agenda by contributing research, analytics, partner coordination, and project support across the Alliance’s global initiatives, including:

• Energy & Opportunity Coalition (EOC), a global initiative to integrate energy investments with development projects across agriculture, health, manufacturing and industrialization sectors through joint planning with sector ministries, co-located infrastructure, and coordinated financing—ensuring electrification powers productivity, services, and growth.
• Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Productive Use of Energy, a joint initiative by the Alliance, the World Bank and partners, anchored under the Mission 300 framework that aims to address the mismatch between energy access and economic development across Africa by transforming fragmented PUE efforts into coordinated, investment-ready national programs.
• Clean Energy Solutions for Women (CES4W) Program, a pilot program that employs a test-and-learn approach to reach over 3,000 women-led farms and enterprises with innovative clean energy technologies, while generating critical evidence on their impact on productivity, livelihoods, and financial control. CES4W aims to demonstrate how gender-responsive, scalable, and commercially viable models for delivering productive-use clean energy solutions can shape the future of energy-driven agricultural development in Kenya.
• Productive Use Finance Facility (PUFF), an innovative subsidy program meant to support productive use appliance and equipment manufacturers and distributors with much needed financing to enhance affordability of these PUE technologies across Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia.

This role is ideal for a highly motivated, analytically strong individual early in their career who is passionate about energy, economic development, and impact at scale. The Fellow will gain exposure to global strategy, country programs, donor engagement, innovation pilots, and cross-sector collaboration.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Research, Analysis & Insight Generation

• Conduct research on productive use of energy (PUE), agriculture-energy linkages, livelihoods, digital economy opportunities, and related sectors.
• Support development of market assessments, diagnostic summaries, landscape reviews, and country briefs.
• Analyze programmatic data and evidence to inform strategy, learning, and decision-making.
• Prepare concise insight notes, presentation slides, talking points, and briefing materials for senior leaders.

1. Support to Strategy & PUE Center of Excellence Implementation

• Assist in translating the E&O strategy into tools, templates, and operational documents.
• Contribute to mapping and analysis of sector initiatives including partners and opportunities for strategic partnerships, innovative pilots, financing instruments and other energy and opportunity related initiatives.

• In collaboration with the Data Manager, apply advanced data analytics to support market assessments, trends analysis, and the generation of robust, evidence-based insights that will support impact monitoring and measurement or the CoE.

• Support the development of CoE knowledge products, handbooks, toolkits, case studies, and learning briefs.
• Help coordinate cross-team inputs for CoE deliverables, country pipelines, and mission objectives.

1. Program Delivery Support

• Provide hands-on support to regional E&O teams on day-to-day program management activities including partner coordination and management, reporting and synthesis of lessons learned to ensure timely delivery of high-quality outputs.
• Track progress across pilot initiatives and help manage project dashboards, timelines, and reporting materials.

1. Partnership & Stakeholder Coordination

• Support the Manager and Director in preparing materials for partners, donors, government meetings, and coalition engagements.
• Draft meeting notes, follow-ups, and partnership summaries to maintain clear communication and alignment.
• Help coordinate with internal teams (Impact, Regional Teams, Comms) on cross-functional tasks.

1. Communications, Learning & Knowledge Management

• Support the documentation of lessons learned, success stories, and best practices from country programs.
• In collaboration with the programs and communications teams, assist in the development of knowledge pieces, social media content, evidence summaries, and storytelling materials.
• Help maintain the E&O knowledge library, shared repositories, and internal learning systems.
• Assist in designing and organizing learning sessions, workshops, peer exchanges, and technical webinars.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. Current or recent post-graduate students studying social sciences or a research-based degree will be considered an added advantage.
• At least 2 years of relevant experience in energy, agriculture, development, consulting, applied research, gender transformative development, impact investing, or similar fields.
• Strong research, analysis, writing skills and ability to prepare high-quality presentations and briefs.
• Familiarity with renewable energy, productive use of energy, agricultural value chains, enterprise development, or sustainable livelihoods will be considered an added advantage.
• Demonstrated experience in data analytics, including the ability to manage, clean, and analyze large and complex datasets, as well as developing interactive data visualizations and dashboards will be considered an added advantage.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, mission-driven environments and with diverse global teams.

Core Behavioral Competencies

• Analytical Strength: Ability to structure problems, analyze data, and synthesize complex information.
• Execution & Organization: Strong attention to detail; ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Communication: Clear, concise writing; ability to prepare compelling materials for diverse audiences.
• Collaboration: Works effectively across teams, cultures, and time zones with humility and curiosity.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Proactive, resourceful, and comfortable navigating ambiguity.
• Mission Alignment: Demonstrated commitment to inclusive economic development and energy access.