Programme Manager: China Electricity Market Reform

Climate Policy Initiative ,
London, Greater London
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Programme Manager: China Electricity Market Reform London ABOUT THE ORGANISATION Climate change is one of the world's most pressing challenges; one that requires technology, policy, markets, finance, and investment to work in concert. In recent years, technological progress has been remarkably positive, while policy has been slower to react. But energy market design and financial innovation are sometimes overlooked or underdeveloped keys to harnessing technology, encouraging effective policy, accelerating innovation, driving investment, rebalancing incentives, and managing global transition risks. Climate Policy Initiative's Energy Finance practice is a multidisciplinary team of economists, analysts, and finance and energy professionals focused on developing innovative and practical finance and energy market solutions that accelerate local, national, and global transitions to low-carbon economies. CPI was founded in 2009, and has offices in Europe, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Kenya and the United States. Although the Energy Finance team is based primarily in London, our programmatic scope is global, with projects looking at markets in Asia, Africa, Europe, the US and Latin America. As the urgency for action on climate change intensifies, the demand for our work is evolving and increasing. We are therefore scaling up the team to develop our analyses of climate-related financial risks and solutions for mitigating those risks, including innovative investment portfolios and helping companies and governments understand the strategic implications of climate change. Our work is split across three main workstreams: * Evaluating and pricing climate risk into investment decisions and finance mechanisms; * Developing new energy market structures and low-carbon transition mechanisms in both developed and emerging markets; * Advising governments, central banks, financial regulators and development financial institutions on the nature and timing of climate transition risks to public finances and financial stability including potential policy responses; We are also increasing seeking to apply advanced data analytics and the insights generated from our three principal workstreams to improve the development of robustness of climate change related economic forecasting, and policy and investment analysis. POSITION SUMMARY CPI offers a challenging environment that requires independent thinking, effective client and stakeholder management, purposeful collaboration and pragmatic problem-solving skills. CPI is looking for talented, highly skilled, flexible and motivated professional with experience of analysing energy policy, regulation and financial structures to join its Energy Finance team. The successful candidate - initially on a six-month contract, but with potential for extension - would take responsibility for managing a joint project between CPI and Imperial College designing and securing funding for a programme to assist Chinese policymakers to transform their energy system for the demands of a lower-carbon world with higher proportions of variable renewable energy. Although we are open to applications from exceptional individuals from a variety of backgrounds, we are particularly interested in those who have a high level of expertise in at least two of the following areas: energy system modelling, energy policy/regulation, financial analysis, power systems engineering, energy and economic forecasting. Mandarin Chinese language skills are required as the candidate will engage intensively with Chinese stakeholders. The candidate will be expected to have excellent project management skills, as they will be required to deliver the CPI/Imperial project on time and within budget, while engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders across both institutions to design a work programme that will gain the support both of Chinese stakeholders and funders. In close collaboration with the executive director, senior staff will be expected to initiate, design, coordinate and deliver all aspects of a project assigned to them within the wider scope of CPI Energy Finance's programmes. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Includes the following and others as assigned: * Manage the development, design and delivery of an innovative multi-stakeholder research programme focussing on the policy, regulatory and financing issues relating to China's low carbon transition, including electricity, mobility and industrial sectors; * Design and deliver qualitative and quantitative research and analysis to an exceptionally high standard of intellectual rigour; * Generate research outputs and create materials that support analytical insights for clients and the Executive Director to short deadlines; * Develop, maintain and facilitate strong relationships with clients, strategic partners, funders and key stakeholders; * Lead outreach to maximise the impact of our findings with our evolving network of policymakers, investors and industry stakeholders; * Commu

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