Location: Remote - Open to various locations within Eastern Africa (Burundi, Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda) or Southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe).
Applicants must hold independent right to work for the country of hiring.
Timeframe / Schedule
The Consultants will be retained for a period of 24 months during which a variable level of effort will be attributed. Some assignments may also be short (5 days or less) or long (several days per week for multiple weeks to months) to support a particular area of expertise required across various projects.
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The Program / Department / Team
Energy 4 Impact is Prosper Global’s market systems delivery and advisory platform, specialising in clean energy and productive use. We work to build inclusive, resilient energy markets that deliver sustained clean energy access, increased incomes, and climate-resilient livelihoods in underserved regions.
With a strong track record across priority African markets, we operate at the intersection of policy and institutions, enterprise growth and finance, ecosystem coordination, and evidence and market intelligence. Our work addresses five systemic barriers that prevent energy access markets from functioning: regulatory uncertainty and weak policy implementation, limited investor confidence and perceived market risk, demonstrator success without clear replication or scale pathways, fragmented ecosystems and weak coordination, and insufficient decision-grade market evidence.
We tackle these barriers through three outcome pathways. We support governments and regulators to provide clearer, more predictable market rules that improve investor confidence. We accelerate energy enterprises from demonstration to commercial viability, building the pipeline of investable opportunities that markets need. We generate and disseminate the market evidence that donors, investors, and governments need to make better allocation, policy, and investment decisions. Across all three pathways, we convene and align governments, enterprises, financiers, donors, and delivery partners to address systemic barriers no single actor can solve alone.
Energy 4 Impact’s comparative advantage lies in harnessing donor ambition to deliver strategic, market-credible solutions. We have a distinctive capacity to blend the advisory capabilities of a specialist firm with the geographic presence and community reach of an NGO.
Our signal of success is sustained private sector investment flowing into previously high-risk energy access markets. When that happens, the market conditions we helped build are working.
Purpose / Project Description:
Energy 4 Impact is building a roster of consultants to provide specialist services in our advisory projects in Africa. Assignments range from policy analysis and advisory, to enterprise-focused technical assistance and investment facilitation, data analytics, evaluation, and knowledge management.
Consultant Objectives
Whilst consultants’ specific objectives will depend on the assignment, the following are expected across all:
Consultant Activities
Consultants’ tasks will vary depending on the project context and expected deliverables. Below are examples of activities expected:
Policy analysis and advisory
Enterprise‑focused technical expertise
Research and learning
Once retained, the individual consultants will receive detailed requests and scopes of work in accordance with the specific needs that will arise. The individual consultants will have the right to refuse a specific assignment in accordance with their own availability. As a rule, candidates should be able to avail themselves within 5 working days of assignment allocation.
The individual consultants will be assigned a point of contact depending on the assignment but should be prepared to work across teams with flexibility. Consultants may work across multiple thematic areas and projects. Assignments are expected to combine technical expertise with data analytics, stakeholder engagement and problem-solving to deliver practical, evidence-based solutions that contribute to enterprise growth, stronger market systems and increased investment in energy.
Consultant Deliverables: The specific scopes of work will detail the deliverables per assignment.
The Consultant will report to: Head of Programs, Energy 4 Impact.
Required Experience & Skills
Areas of technical expertise
Non-exhaustive areas of expertise required in the pool of consultants through individual expertise are listed below. Candidates are requested to be as specific as possible about their areas of expertise, including years of experience in each area. The list below if only a guidance on what we are looking for.
Other key requirements
Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders
Prosper Global team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.
Living Conditions / Environmental Conditions This is a remote position based in the selected candidate's country of permanent residence.
In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development
Achieving our mission starts with how we build our team and collaborate. By bringing together individuals with a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives, we strengthen our ability to solve complex challenges and drive innovation. We foster a culture of trust and respect, where every team member is valued for their contributions, empowered to reach their full potential, and motivated to do their best work.
We recognize that building a strong and effective team is an ongoing process, and we remain committed to learning, improving, and growing together.
Prosper Global is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected under applicable law.
Prosper Global is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC and have signed on to the Interagency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere to Prosper Global Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct elearning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.
As an applicant, if you witness or experience any form of sexual misconduct during the recruitment process, please report this to Prosper Global Integrity Hotline ([email protected]).
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