Energy Manager Job at Médecins Sans Frontières

Job Overview

Energy Manager 

Dar es Salaam
Médecins Sans Frontières

MSF is an international, independent organisation.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. MSF offers assistance to people based on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. MSF is therefore guided by the principles of neutrality and impartiality. These principles must apply to all MSF staff.

Title: ENERGY MANAGER

Direct Reports: DEPUTY LOGISTICS COORDINATOR / LOGISTICS COORDINATOR

Location: DAR ES SALAAM

MAIN PURPOSE

Planning, coordinating and monitoring all logistics activities in the mission related to electricity and energy supply according to MSF protocols and standards to ensure an optimal running of the mission.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

In collaboration with the deputy Logistics Coordinator and the Logistics Coordinator, planning, establishing and reviewing the electrical activities in the mission, including its annual budget, to identify and give a response to the mission needs and the targeted population.
Monitoring and ensuring the implementation of the electrical activity in the projects ensuring compliance to MSF standards, protocols and procedures, and reporting to the Project Coordinators on the development of the ongoing programmes. This entails the following:
Ensuring that the electrical installations in the project are up to the level of the Technical Department, prioritizing personnel and equipment security and optimization of energy consumption based on real filed needs.
Providing a technical proposal to improve the installations and bring them up to the level recommended by the Technical Department.
Guaranteeing the setup of the recommendations and establishing the electrical records for the mission in order to ensure the compliance of the installations to said recommendations e.g. power demand analysis and working principle of the installation.
Ensuring technical support for his area of activity and providing coaching to logistics staff under his/her responsibility.
Performing delegated tasks according to his her speciality and as specified in his/her job description.
Identifying, defining and implementing solutions and strategies that reduce the environmental footprint of the electrical installations in the mission. These strategies englobe not only technical solutions but also how the electrical installations are used, maintained and managed. The main objective of reducing the environmental footprint entails energy efficiency, reducing the carbon dioxide emissions, a proper waste management and the use of sustainable and adapted solutions according to the context.

Minimum Educational Qualification:

Essential technical diploma or technical university degree preferably as an engineer

Experience:

• Essential in energy / electricity management (minimum 2 years) in similar position with similar responsabilities
• Desirable experience in MSF or other NGOs and desirable understanding of MSF activities in general
• Knowledge of global planetary health challenges and objectives with practical experiences

Languages:

Fluent oral and written English and Swahili (speak, read and write)

Competences and main skills:

• Essential computer literacy (word, excel and power point)
• Detail-oriented, team spirit, verbal communication skills, organisational skills, flexibility, stress and time management
• Strategical thinking, results and quality orientation, planning and organization, initiative and innovation
• Adhesion to MSF principles and MSF charter
• Willingness for working and evolving with international and diverse team members