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Are you passionate about Open Innovation in Energy Access? If you think you would enjoy working with us, we want to hear from you.
Content and Comms Manager
EnAccess is seeking a Content & Communications Manager to begin in February 2024.
In a nutshell, this is what our Content & Comms Manager will do:
Conceptualize, develop, manage, and execute the communications strategy and create all external communications for EnAccess. This also includes (but is not limited to) growing and contributing to EnAccess’ stakeholder community.
We are looking for someone proactive and entrepreneurial – experience in startups and early-stage companies will be seen very favorably. Strong candidates are professionally committed to driving positive impact and achieving Sustainable Development Goals, specifically SDG7.
About you
You have experience in both strategizing and executing: you can come up with the idea and the “why” behind it, you’re a great copywriter with a knack for finding the story, but you also know how to execute. That can look like placing pieces in the right channels, proactively setting up opportunities, and social media management of LinkedIn and other community spaces that could be relevant to finding our “target audience” of developers. You love creating communities, engaging with people and organizations, and making them engage as well.
You should have previous experience in communication or marketing strategy, content creation, social media marketing, partnerships, community building, and marketing analytics.
You’re not shy, and you’re excited about being the voice of EnAccess. Your face will appear in industry event photos, and you could be the moderator or host of virtual or live events.
Qualifications
• Creative, detail-oriented, and highly organized individual with a strong interest in partnerships, coordination, communications, and community-building
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in communication – preferably in the Energy (Access), technology, open source, or related fields
• Fluency in English is required, though we love accents and welcome yours to the team. Written English should be at a native level. Writing samples will be requested
• Excellent writing, editing, and oral communication skills
• Experience in storytelling and finding the human-side story to technology products
• Self-motivation and a proven ability to work independently and remotely is a must
• Google Analytics and website content management using WordPress, SEO knowledge
• The ability to work on a small, international, largely remote team is a must- Teamworking skills are a must
• Experience in the Energy Access/Transition or development sector is a big plus
• Experience with tech communication or open-source communities is a plus
Additional details about the role
• The job will be remote, we prefer someone who has proven remote work experience and availability in the CET time zone (9 am-5 pm CET)
• This role is open to all ages, genders, and backgrounds
• Min. 32 hours per week (room for negotiation, hours/days can be scheduled in a convenient way)
• Candidate should want to commit for at least one year
• You should have working rights in the European Union or the ability to be hired as a consultant. We are unable to sponsor any visa work sponsorship for this position.
• Some international travel may be required
Responsibilities
The Content and Communications Manager is a mid/senior-level position within EnAccess. These are some core responsibilities, but this is by no means an exhaustive list:
• Communication Strategy – Every communication activity should be part of an overall strategy helping EnAccess achieve its mission. Define objectives & measure results.
• Formulate comprehensive B2B marketing strategies for EnAccess collaborations and projects, establishing KPI tracking and reporting methodologies. Develop and maintain relationships with Energy Access project developers and partners.
• Develop and implement content strategy and creation for a variety of audiences across all channels, including videos, thought-leadership articles, social media, website, podcasts
• Manage the content calendar for all marketing activities
• Harness the power of Google Analytics to evaluate website effectiveness, providing insightful reports to optimize performance.
• Execution of paid campaigns (Google Ads, LinkedIn advertising), along with comprehensive reporting
• Orchestrate, manage, organize, and report on virtual and in-person events, conferences, webinars, and summits, consistently to explore new opportunities.
• Oversee and administer the marketing budget, ensuring meticulous expense monitoring and management.
What we offer
• A competitive salary ranging from gross 40-60.000 USD (depending on qualification) based on 40 hours per week
• The opportunity to exchange with and learn from passionate colleagues
• The chance to have an impact and develop your career within a mission-driven organization and the opportunity to shape the future of the organization
• A workplace that strives to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of its work
• Long-term commitment to a remote working model with flexible working hours
How to apply
Prepare a cover letter and tell us who you are, and why you would be a good fit for EnAccess. Your cover letter should be in the body of the email you will send to: hr@enaccess.org.
Your CV can be attached as a PDF or sent as a link as long as it’s complete and detailed. The format of the CV isn’t very important, as long as it’s not a Word document, since those will be ignored along with cover letters that are not in the body of the email. A good cover letter is what prompts your CV to be reviewed.
We intend to hire as soon as possible and will perform interviews with suitable candidates at the earliest convenience. The ultimate deadline for applications is the 21st of January..
Product Adoption Manager
We are looking for the Product Adoption Manager to support Energy Access companies in discovering and using Open Innovations. You will be the “Open Innovations Advocate” and help companies learn about new open solutions available in the market and how to make the best use of them. You will be helping prospective adopters learn and adopt the new innovations being published relevant to their business.
The Product Adoption Manager also promotes Open Innovation as a key to reducing barriers for new players to enter the market. Your success will lead to many companies adopting these open innovations in their businesses and actively growing open source within the Energy Access space enabling many more thousands of people to be electrified.
About you
You’re the kind of person who is passionate about enabling the Energy Access industry to achieve universal energy access via open-source innovations. Your mind lives at the crossing of social impact, finance, and technology, and you are great at communicating what happens there. You are curious to learn about new open innovations being developed and used by companies, and you have ideas on how to get others to learn more about these innovations. You get fired up when finding new ways to use old tools, you see Bluetooth, and think about a smartphone and a water pump talking to each other. You see a USB connector and think about entire houses powered by energy-efficient appliances.
You love to help connect people with technology that makes it. You are a natural relationship and community builder loving to feed, maintain and grow the communities surrounding you. When talking to somebody about their endeavors, you immediately see problems others are facing while connecting the dots to help find a possible solution. You have worked in energy access and are familiar with the challenges and the companies in the sector. You do not hesitate to pick up the phone and call the people that would benefit from that thing you just saw while riding in a tuktuk. And most importantly, you are happy when you help others succeed and will go to great lengths to make that happen.
If that is you, and you are ready to be part of an organization promoting new ways of delivering innovations to the energy access sector, helping to achieve fair and high-quality energy access for all, then reach out to us.
Qualifications
– At least 2-3 years of working experience in energy access or the energy industry
– Experience with sales or technical support in B2B
– Good understanding of the energy access context (mainly Africa/South Asia)
– Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or similar fields required
– Hands-on with open source tools and approaches, ideally used, created, or contributed to open source projects in the past
– Familiarity with technical decision-makers and their processes
– Outstanding presentation skills
– Excellent ability to quickly learn about products/innovations and to understand the customer’s needs
– Savvy with Google Workplaces, such as Gmail, Google Drive, etc.
– Experience with Github is a big plus, willingness to learn is a must
– Experience with programme management in non-profits is a big plus (overseeing programme budgets, tracking and reporting on programme performance, pipeline management, etc.)me
Additional details about the role
– You will be part of a small remote working team and often have to wear multiple hats and be comfortable and open to leaving your comfort zone in order to learn and grow in these roles
– This is meant to be a full-time position. However, we can be flexible for the right candidate.
– Candidates should want to commit for at least one year, and be ready to show results within that time frame.
– This position is based in any of the European/African time zones (CET +/- 2h)
– Fluency in English is required, though we love accents and welcome yours to the team
– French is a plus
– This role is open to all ages, genders, and backgrounds
– Report to the Innovation & Operations Lead
– Salary will be based on experience, but we anticipate it being in the US$ 34k-48k bracket for a full-time position, growing over time based on results
– International travel will be required
How to apply
Prepare a cover letter and tell us who you are, and why you would be a good fit for EnAccess. Your cover letter should be in the body of the email you will send to: hr@enaccess.org.
Your CV can be attached as a PDF or sent as a link as long as it’s complete and detailed. The format of the CV isn’t very important, as long as it’s not a Word document, since those will be ignored along with cover letters that are not in the body of the email. A good cover letter is what prompts your CV to be reviewed.
Position will remain open until filled with the right candidate.
Work with EnAccess
We are not actively looking to fill any positions within EnAccess at this time. However, if you think you should work at EnAccess then we would absolutely like to hear from you. Within our team, we have people working in management, marketing, design, web development, operations, software engineers, fundraising, sales, and quality control. We have full-time and part time staff, and we also work with a number of freelancers and agencies. EnAccess is committed to gender equality within its workforce, and across the innovation system as part of its wider focus on equality, diversity and inclusion. View our Gender Equality Plan.
Generally speaking, here is what you need to know about working at EnAccess.
– We are based in the European/African time zones (CET +/- 2h)
– We are a mostly remote team, and need to work with people that are experienced working remotely.
– You will be part of a small team and often have to wear multiple hats and be comfortable and open to leave your comfort zone in order to learn and grow in these roles
– Fluency in English is required, though we love accents and welcome yours to the team
– Any position within EnAccess is a role is open to all ages, genders, and backgrounds
How to apply
Write an email to hr@enaccess.org and include your CV as a PDF or a link.
We want to stress something: We like seeing personality come through in emails!