Job Title: Consultant, Clean Power Program
(Intern can be considered if he/she has sufficient working time and related internship experience.)  
Location: Beijing, China
Reports To: Program Officer & Program Coordinator, Clean Power Program
Duration: 6 months, with possibility of extension

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support PC on the whole-process administration of Clean Power Program’s grant-making process, including but not limited to maintaining liaison with grantee teams, reviewing application materials, drafting project summary, supporting project meetings, and monitoring the grant progress.
• Collect and carry out due diligence on the grants related materials, including grant proposals, budget proposals, mid-term and end-term narrative and financial reports, the technical reports, and etc.
• Support to monitor the project progress, help organize and attend meetings at various stages of the project and follow through to support ensuring desirable deliverables and outcomes.
• Monitor the payment for granted projects, help grantees to resolve payment related issues.
• Organize and manage consulting contracts. Responsibilities include drafting contracts and reviewing related reimbursement materials. Ensure that contract administration and reimbursement follow EF China procedures and is handled in a timely manner.
• Organize and coordinate all kinds of meetings/workshops, consultant visits, or study tours, including arranging or providing translation services, taking notes and developing meeting summaries, and etc.
•  Assist PO/PC to draft reporting materials, such as annual report and work plan to the regulators.
• Translate written materials from English to Chinese or vice versa as required by PO/PC.
• Undertake additional tasks and responsibilities as assigned by PO/PC.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree and above, preferably in a related field: power, energy, environment, economics, and international affairs etc.
• Working experience: Two-year and above working experiences as a plus, including previous internship experience. Employment experiences in environment and project management are strongly preferred.
• Language: Chinese native speaker; ability to communicate fluently in both spoken and written English.
• Project management skills: ability to manage projects according to a set of procedures and rules, follow the necessary steps rigorously, with the good understanding of the purpose, scope and timeline of the projects.
• Problem solving skills: ability to use logics to solve problems independently, and demonstrate potential to solve complicated problems.
• Communications: ability to communicate with others clearly, listen actively and write with clear logics.
• Salary: This is a paid position.

Please email a cover letter and resume, with subject line "Application for CPP Consultant", tojobs@efchina.org.

EF CHINA OVERALL INTRODUCTION

Energy Foundation China is a professional grantmaking charitable organization registered in California, U.S. It has been working in China since 1999, and is dedicated to China’s sustainable energy development. The foundation’s China representative office is registered with the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau and supervised by the National Development and Reform Commission of China.

Our vision is to achieve prosperity and a safe climate through sustainable energy. Our mission is to achieve greenhouse gas emissions neutrality, world-class air quality, energy access, and green growth through transforming energy and optimizing economic structure. We deliver the mission by serving as a regrantor, facilitator, and strategic advisor.

With a view to assisting China in coping with development, energy, environment, and climate challenges, we support policy and standard research, capacity building, and international cooperation across seven fields: power, industry, transportation, cities, environmental management, low carbon economic growth, and strategic communications. In addition to the sector-by-sector work, we also contribute to crosscutting and integrated issues that have big impacts on China’s decarbonized development through seven task forces: Long-Term Strategy for Decarbonization, Coal Transition, Urbanization, Electrification, Air Quality, Belt and Road Initiative, Track II Cooperation.

Through the end of 2020, Energy Foundation China had funded 3,113 projects operated by over 796 grantees in China, with total funding amount over 359 million dollars. Our grantees include leading policy research institutes, academies, industry associations, local energy efficiency institutions, and NGOs in China and abroad, such as the Development Research Center of the State Council, the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, China Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, China Automotive Technology and Research Center, etc.

PROGRAM INTRODUCTION

Clean Power Program aims at supporting China put the Chinese power sector on a clean, low-carbon trajectory, one that over the next 35 years aligns with a worldwide strategy to limit global warming to 2℃. To support this 2℃ vision, we strive to peak China’s power sector carbon emissions by 2025 and to acquire more than 80 percent of the country’s electricity from renewables by 2050.

Specifically, we cover the following initiatives:

1. Improve power system planning and operation to accelerate investment in, and use of, low- and zero-carbon resources;
2. Assist the government in implementing power sector reform to establish market models and regulatory frameworks that are favorable to energy efficiency and renewable energy;
3. Break down institutional barriers, develop robust business models, and implement pilots and demonstrations to accelerate the development of distributed renewable energy and smart energy internet; and
4. Improve renewable energy industrial policies and conduct long-term scenario analysis to promote adoption of a national energy transition strategy toward a high renewable energy penetration future.