Expert Roster: Energy Access Consultants

About

Prosper Global is building a roster of Energy Access Consultants to provide specialist services on advisory projects in Africa. Consultants may undertake assignments in policy and regulation, enterprise technical assistance and investment facilitation, data analytics, evaluation, and knowledge management. Consultants are retained for 24 months with variable effort and must have an independent right to work in their country of hiring. Terms of service: Retained for a period of 24 months during which a variable level of effort will be attributed. Duty station: Remote - based in the selected candidate's country of permanent residence.

How to apply

Apply online through the official advert page on Jobvite.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high‑quality, evidence‑based insights and recommendations to project teams and assigned clients.
• Produce high‑quality deliverables on time and to specification.
• Strengthen project outcomes through targeted technical expertise.
• Support the identification of innovative, practical, and commercially viable solutions that strengthen market systems and improve the long-term sustainability of project outcomes.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
• Contribute to learning, knowledge capture, and continuous improvement in Energy 4 Impact’s programming and advisory services.
• Contribute to business development through building up of project design and concept.
• Policy analysis, regulatory reviews, and assessment of enabling frameworks.
• Drafting or refining policies, regulations, guidelines, or institutional models.
• Designing and facilitating government–private‑sector dialogue platforms.
• Advising on governance structures, institutional arrangements, or market‑enabling reforms.
• Supporting design and delivery of pilots on new institutional or regulatory models to inform national adoption.
• Enterprise diagnostics on TA needs for growth and sustainability.
• Market analysis, business strategy, and business‑planning support.
• Supply‑chain design, last‑mile distribution, and operations optimisation.

Qualifications

• Applicants must hold independent right to work for the country of hiring.
• Minimum 3 years of demonstrated experience in the specific area of energy access expertise for which the consultant is applying.
• Candidates should specify which areas of technical expertise they are applying to (please refer to point 1-10 above).
• At least 3 years of professional experience working in African markets, with a strong understanding of local market dynamics, institutional environments, and private‑sector realities.
• Experience gained as part of an enterprise, utility, government institution/agency, financial institution/investor, or venture consulting firm is highly desirable.
• Candidates should list only countries where experience is gained consistently over at least 6 months.
• Experience through on-ground delivery is highly desired.
• Strong technical knowledge, with demonstrated success in applying it to SME or policy advisory assignments.
• Proven ability in managing relationships with advisory clients, including structured analysis, actionable recommendations, and client‑facing communication.
• Experience in sector networking and relationship building, e.g., with government and regulatory agencies, private‑sector companies, financiers, other advisory networks, development partners, and community‑level actors.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, including the ability to work with qualitative and quantitative data and translating it into succinct actionable insights.
• Candidates are encouraged to include a portfolio of published attributable knowledge and data products.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Candidates should state their level of proficiency against recognised standards such as the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR; A1 to C2 categorisation) and the United Nations Language Framework (UNLF; Levels I to IV categorisation).
• Fluency in French, Kiswahili, Portuguese, or other African languages is a strong asset.