Basic job summary:

Duties & Responsibilities:

Project Initiation:

Establish schools social, financial and technical requirements
Assist engineers with on-site technical surveys of the schools
Innovate survey approach to optimise off site survey method for future
Assist in data collection for school impact baselines
Innovate impact data collection approach for result gathering
Assist in business model communication method and materials
Assist in recruitment and management of additional fellow researchers 24 FTE in total

Research:

Help establish working methods for running the Community Energy Hubs covering the following daytime educational services:
IT and laboratory teaching
Classroom lighting provision
Clean cooking and refrigeration
STEM lesson planning and adoption

Help establish working methods for running the Community Energy Hubs covering the following community and revenue earning services:

Adult IT classes
Security lighting provision
Clean cooking for street food vendors
Laundry services washing, drying, ironing service washes
Water pumping
Personal hygiene
Trial the education and community services working methods with variations for each school as required
Establish a best practice approach that allows each school's working methods to be compared and improved over a number of trial iterations
Run the research over a whole year via 4 quarterly cycles establishing hypothesis, operations and measuring finances savings and revenues and impact and learning for each cycle to improve best practice
Help draw viability conclusions and necessary improvements.

Minimum Academic Qualifications:

Masters/Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, IT, social sciences, or a similar related field

Experience:

One or two years of relevant work experience working in the field of renewable energy research, business development, data management, monitoring and evaluation or a related field

Competencies and Attributes