The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (Global Energy Alliance) The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (Global Energy Alliance) works for a world where everyone has access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity and the means to use it to improve their lives. Our Alliance builds transformative public, private, philanthropic partnerships to end energy poverty and accelerate green economic opportunity. Founded in 2021 by The Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA Foundation, and Bezos Earth Fund, we design innovative projects/programs, unlock finance, strengthen institutions and transform markets, delivering progress anchored in deep community engagement. By uniting actors across the value chain, from households to heads of state, we go beyond individual projects to drive lasting systems change. With work in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, our Alliance aims to reach 1 billion people with clean electricity, prevent 4 billion tons of carbon emissions and create or improve 150 million jobs.
Job Title: Grids of the Future (GOTF) Lead, Kenya
Location: Embedded at Kenya Power headquarters, Nairobi
Contract Type: Initial 12 months, renewable based on performance and funding availability
Travel: Within Kenya as required by the programme
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet, is a multi-stakeholder platform accelerating energy access and the clean energy transition in emerging markets.
Through its Grids of the Future (GOTF) initiative,Global Energy Alliance partners with forward looking Champion Utilities to modernise distribution networks, enable renewable integration, strengthen grid flexibility, and deploy storage and digitalisation solutions.
Kenya is a strategic anchor country for GOTF in Africa. Kenya Power is a Tier 1 Champion Utility at active implementation stage. Following the signing of a non-binding MoU, the engagement will focus on strengthening network visibility, improving operational planning, reducing losses, enhancing reliability, and preparing the utility for deeper integration of renewable energy, battery storage, and other future facing grid solutions.
Global Energy Alliance is seeking a Kenya based GOTF Lead to serve as an embedded resource supporting Kenya Power through the foundational stage of its grid modernisation programme and into the early implementation of selected pilots. The consultant will help the utility move from early alignment into a structured programme of work by leading the initial assessment, facilitating development of a Utility Charter, shaping a phased three-year roadmap, and maintaining continuity into first phase delivery.
S/he will work on a day-to-day basis alongside Kenya Power teams while remaining closely coordinated with the Global Energy Alliance team supporting the programme and will help strengthen day-to-day working relationships between Kenya Power, Global Energy Alliance, and other relevant technical or financing partners.
Experience engaging senior utility leadership, navigating complex institutional environments, and connecting technical workstreams to practical implementation needs is highly desirable.
The annual salary for this role starts from USD 100,000 negotiable based on level of experience
Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a generous benefits package that includes but is not limited to the following.
Please submit your application on or before 27th September COB. The Global Energy Alliance reserves the right to close the job advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.
We operate from a strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in everything we do. It is not only the right thing to do – we could not make an impact without our team members' diverse perspectives and experiences. We expect all Global Energy Alliance employees to contribute by developing their unique perspectives and talent, challenging conventional wisdom through evidence and reason, and amplifying marginalized voices.
Global Energy Alliance is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity and compliance with all federal, state, and local laws concerning employment discrimination, including the Americans with Disabilities Act. To this end, the organization ensures equal opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, lawful alien status, physical, mental, and medical disability, veteran status, or liability for service in the United States Armed Forces.
Global Energy Alliance is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Electricity powers human opportunity and economic growth. Jobs, education, modern healthcare, thriving economies: In today’s world, these all depend on affordable, reliable energy. Yet nearly 700 million people live without electricity and more than a billion more live with access that is unaffordable or unreliable. Many of these people live in places that are hardest hit by climate change. In the face of growing global instability and constrained funding, we urgently need a bold new model of collaboration. The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet builds transformative public, private, philanthropic partnerships to end energy poverty and accelerate green economic opportunity. Together with more than 50 partners, we work for a world where everyone has access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity and the means to use it to improve their lives.
