Energy-Tech Nonprofit (Fully Remote - Grid Planning & Market Development Lead Asia at Energy-Tech Nonprofit (Fully Remote | Asia | English)

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Remote Staff APAC Banking Energy Growth Lead Technical Evangelist Procurement Outreach

Requirements

• Start Date Goal • Strong regional networks and institutional understanding. You have meaningful relationships with energy sector institutions in at least some of our priority Asian markets. You understand how energy planning decisions are made, who influences them and how the relevant institutions interact. • Strong regional networks and institutional understanding. • Technical credibility in energy system modelling. You have meaningful hands-on experience with power or energy system modelling and understand modelling approaches, capabilities and limitations well enough to engage technical counterparts at their level. You will not be expected to work as a full time modeler in this role, but you are likely to advise modeling teams on the local context. • Technical credibility in energy system modelling. • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills. You can build trust one to one, lead conversations with senior decision makers, deliver compelling presentations and seminars, facilitate workshops and explain complex technical subjects to very different audiences. • Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills. • Strong judgment and the ability to turn relationships into action. You can recognize promising opportunities, understand what an institution actually needs, shape projects collaboratively and move an idea from an initial conversation towards a funded project or contract. • Strong judgment and the ability to turn relationships into action. • Genuine commitment to open-source approaches. You understand why transparency, reproducibility, collaboration, institutional capability and reduced dependence on proprietary solutions matter in energy planning, and you can persuade others of their value. • Genuine commitment to open-source approaches. • An entrepreneurial, culturally aware, and highly autonomous working style. You are comfortable creating your own activity, developing relationships over time, deciding where to focus and operating across different institutional and cultural environments. You also enjoy collaborating and know when bringing in the right colleague will make an opportunity stronger. • An entrepreneurial, culturally aware, and highly autonomous working style. • 🧩 Other Essentials • Other Essentials • Ability to manage your responsibilities independently, in a fully-remote role, as part of a geographically distributed team • independently, in a fully-remote role • The ability to manage multiple competing priorities, and adapt in an evolving work environment at a growing company • Strong communication skills, tactfulness, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams asynchronously • Fluency in English (our main working language) is mandatory. Other language proficiency is a bonus. • Interest or experience with open source projects like PyPSA or similar • Experience with proprietary tools such as PLEXOS or similar • Prior work at a young nonprofit, and/or in the energy sector • Prior work as part of a fully-remote, distributed team • Experience responding to tenders or developing projects with organizations such as the Asian Development Bank, World Bank or other multilateral and bilateral development institutions • Experience with development finance, philanthropic funding or donor funded energy programs • A university degree is not required, but a bonus. Your experience, communication skills, and work ethic matter most.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with system operators, ministries, regulators, consultants, research institutions and other organizations involved in energy planning across priority Asian markets. • Grow awareness and understanding of open source energy modelling through direct engagement, conferences, seminars, workshops and relevant regional networks. • Identify where open approaches can make a meaningful difference and turn promising conversations into concrete project concepts and opportunities. Where funding is needed to enable adoption, help identify potential funders and work with OET's global market development leadership to develop an appropriate funding route. • Respond to relevant tenders and procurement processes, including opportunities from organizations such as the Asian Development Bank and other international institutions. • Act as OET's eyes and ears in Asia by understanding emerging priorities, institutional developments, funding opportunities, competing approaches and changes in the regional energy modelling landscape. Feed these insights into senior leadership and Marketing and Communications to improve OET's strategy, positioning and outreach. • Advise technical project teams on the context of Asian energy system modeling. • ✅ Must-haves • ✅ Must-haves • There is no single career path into this role. You might currently work in market development or consulting, but you could equally be a senior professional at a system operator, ministry or regulator, or a professor or senior researcher who has built strong relationships across the sector and wants to use that experience to drive change more directly.

Benefits

• Reports to • Works Closely With • A flexible, fully remote work environment where you’re trusted to work very autonomously. Zero micro-management, as that goes against our culture. • The opportunity to become part of a hardworking, passionate, team that will value and respect your contributions, and is working to create positive societal change in the energy sector. • A culture that values transparency, empathy, trust, humility, diversity, collaboration, and recognition. • An open-door policy, where reciprocal feedback is encouraged. You’ll always know where you stand, and always have the ability to have your voice heard, simply by reaching out. • A pretty flat hierarchical structure, where titles are not emphasized, and all contributions are valued. • A competitive salary, guaranteed annual reviews, and growth potential. Any relevant benefits depend on your country of residence. • Supportive onboarding and training that is tailored to your strengths, interests, and career ambitions. This includes access to learning and development support from the company. • The ability to request expensing for home office items that will benefit your workflow. • The ability to be part of our formation! We’re still growing, changing, and improving. Anyone who is part of our team now is able to meaningfully contribute towards our culture, and processes. We’re open to all suggestions, and take them seriously! • 📝 What Our Hiring Process Entails • We take hiring seriously, and want to bring on candidates who will contribute positively towards our culture just as much as they will succeed in their roles. • Also, we don’t only want to have good outcomes from you. We also want you to feel happy and fulfilled in your position. That means we have a structured process to determine best fit. Our hiring process is as follows: • Candidates apply via Greenhouse, and include as much information as possible and comfortable. • Various team members of OET will shortlist candidates in our ATS. • shortlist • Certain shortlisted candidates will be contacted to arrange a max. 30 minute screening call. • screening call • From those candidates, some will go through to a first-round interview of around 1 hour, focused on role fit. • first-round interview • Finalists will go through to a second-round interview of around 1 hour, focused on culture fit. • second-round interview • Bonus round - there may be a short written, take-home assignment, depending on the role. • written, take-home assignment • The chosen candidate will be provided with a written offer, and the opportunity to ask any questions. • written offer • Onboarding with our People Team begins. • Onboarding • Your start date arrives! • start date • ➡️ How to Apply • ➡️ How to Apply • If you're excited to bring clarity and efficiency to the chaos of the lives of our senior leadership team, we’d love to hear from you! Please submit an application via Greenhouse (our ATS). All applications are reviewed in there. If you have any questions about OET or the role, we’d be happy to answer them should we invite you to take part in a screening call or interview.