Avis d’appel à manifestation d’intérêt pour le recrutement d’un Consultant pour fournir des services de conseil junior au Fonds pour l’énergie durable en Afrique (SEFA), Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Power, Energy, Climate and Green Growth Complex (PEVP)
Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (PERN)
Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA)
INDIVIDUAL JUNIOR CONSULTANT
Expressions of interest are being requested for an Individual Junior Consultant Position
- Brief description of the Assignment: The African Development Bank invites eligible consultants to indicate their Interest in providing Junior consulting services to the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA).
SEFA is a Multi-Donor Special Fund that aims to unlock private sector investments that contribute to providing universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy services for all in Africa, in line with the Bank’s New Deal on Energy for Africa strategy and Sustainable Development Goal 7. SEFA also aims to build capacity of local and regional actors (public and private), reducing risks and addressing commercial viability gaps to accelerate sustainable energy investments by the private sector.
SEFA will continue to contribute towards the African Development Bank’s New Deal on Energy for Africa (NDEA), by providing technical assistance and concessional investments along three themes, namely Green Baseload (GBL), Green Mini-grids (GMG) and Energy Efficiency (EE).
The Junior Consultant is being recruited to provide project and programme development and implementation support to the SEFA fund, with a focus on the GMG theme. The services to be provided under the Assignment include:
- Project, and programme support: Supporting the GMG team leader in the identification, design and implementation of GMG projects, including development of concept notes, appraisal reports, workplans, project budgets, and procurement documents
- Targeted research: Conducting targeted desktop-based research to support in the design of key projects, substantive research work and analytical and statistical analysis on various energy sector issues, mapping of players in the project development space, donor activities, financing instruments and initiatives
- Drafting of key materials: Assist GMG team leader in the development of key internal or external facing documents to progress projects;
- Supporting wider SEFA team: Providing ad-hoc support to wider SEFA and PERN colleagues on as-needed basis
- Department issuing the request: PERN
- Place of assignment: Abidjan
- Duration of the assignment: twelve (12) months
- Tentative Date of commencement: Beginning of May 2024
- Detailed Terms of reference for the assignment: Please see below
- Deadline for applications: 29th March 2024
- Interested Consultants shall provide information on their qualifications and experience demonstrating their ability to undertake this assignment (A cover letter and CV clearly indicating reference to similar services and experience in similar assignments, etc – The Model of the CV is attached ).
- The eligibility criteria, the establishment of a short list and the selection procedure shall be in conformity with the Bank’s Rules and Procedure for the Use of Consultants. Please, note that interest expressed by a Consultant does not imply any obligation on the part of the Bank to include him/her in the shortlist.
- Applications to be submitted to:
Mr. Benjamin Curnier,
Principal GMG Officer, PENP1/SEFA
E-mail: B.CURNIER@AFDB.ORG with copy to T.MUNGAI@AFDB.ORG and G.LIMA@AFDB.ORG
Any questions and requests for clarifications may be sent to Mr. Benjamin Curnier
E-mail: B.CURNIER@AFDB.ORG
- A shortlist of three to six individual consultants will be established at the end of the request of expressions of interest. The consultants on the shortlist will be judged on the following criteria:
| Level of education in general | 20% |
| Educational level compared to the field of mission | 20% |
| Years of experience in general | 20% |
| Number of years of experience relevant to the mission | 40% |
For the EOI to be considered, the consultant needs to be registered in the AfDB DACON Consultant Database.