EEP Africa
Portfolio Manager
Description
As EEP Africa portfolio is growing, we are now looking for three Portfolio Managers to strengthen our core team. The main responsibility of the Portfolio Manager is to support our grantees in successfully implementing the EEP Africa financed projects. We are looking for candidates with extensive experience from the clean energy sector and we put strong emphasis on candidates from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Overview of the position
SNV has been selected as the Service Provider to the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) for the Implementation of Support Services for the Energy and Environment Trust Fund (EEP Africa). EEP Africa is an open-ended clean energy financing facility, hosted and managed by NDF, with funding from Austria, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, NDF, Norway, and Switzerland. The Fund’s operations focus on three interrelated activities: i) Clean Energy Financing supporting early-stage renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, ii) Investment Facilitation and Business Development Support (BDS), and iii) Knowledge and Partnerships. The Fund currently focuses on 17 countries in the Southern and Eastern Africa region: Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Considering current and foreseen growth of the EEP Africa portfolio, we are planning to expand the team with three Portfolio Managers.The location for the role can be any of the EEP Africa countries (listed above), with preference for the candidates to be based in one of the SNV offices in these countries. EEP Africa countries with SNV office presence include Burundi, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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