Capacity Development for Climate Policy in the Western Balkan region, CEE and Central Asia

Promoting energy efficiency and reducing the demand for gas imports has become a key priority of the government of Ukraine. In the past months, BMUB and the Ukrainian Ministry of Regional Development have jointly developed a concept, called “Turning Subsidies into Investments” (S2I), with the aim to address structural investment barriers for scaling up energy efficiency and reducing gas consumption in buildings and the municipal heating infrastructure and thereby to tackle the huge investment lags (est. 40 bn. USD), as well as to bring down the demand for energy-related social subsidies.

Specific tasks of the assignment include:

  1. Refinement and Finalisation of a concept of the “S2I” financial platform, which shall include a Multi-Donor Fund to be established in parallel to a national fund to pool donor-funding for S2I.
  2. Based on an analysis of barriers of existing financing programs, development of 10-15 project types, which are visible, tangible, suitable to generate substantial
  3. Energy efficiency gains and increase energy-related social subsidy savings.
  4. Development of policy proposals regarding a mid-/long-term reform strategy to tackle structural investment barriers for energy efficiency in the gas/heating sector and reduction of energy-related social subsidies.
  5. Development of an Action Plan to implement the above-mentioned reform strategy.
Qualifications: 

The tasks described require the deployment of expertise covering the following fields:

  • high-level policy advice in the energy and financial sectors
  • proven experience in direct cooperation with national government institutions and international organizations
  • experience managing complex strategic policy projects including politically sensitive areas
  • the Ukrainian energy sector, especially with regard to energy supply and consumption in the building and municipal heating sector as well as energy efficiency potentials and projects. This also includes profound understanding of the subsidy system for gas and municipal heating in the country.
  • Design of financing vehicles, using financial intermediaries, business case development, preferably for energy efficiency investments
  • Proven experience to manage complex stakeholder processes

Required expert profiles:

  • Senior international expert for overall supervision and management
  • Internationally experienced senior manager (team-leader and contact person for BMUB)
  • National / international financing expert(s)
  • National / international energy efficiency expert(s)

Working language(s) will be English. However, the team of experts must be able to work with Ukrainian documents and engage in direct cooperation with Ukrainian partners. Therefore, at least a part of the expert team engaged in implementing the assignment will need Ukrainian language skills.

Start / Duration: 

open

Please send your most recent CV to:

Barbara.Braun [at] afci.de

Thank you!