Team Leader

Silver Spring, MD, United States

Panagora Group | Full time

**Team Leader**

Silver Spring , United States | Posted on 03/11/2021

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HIghest Level of Education Undergraduate and graduate degrees and a minimum of 15 years of experience in Electrical Engineering and/or other relevant STEM subjects. Work Experience 15-20 years **Job Description**

Panagora Group is a small business providing novel and integrated solutions in global health and international development. Our goal is to provide innovative solutions that build national capacity and promote sustainability through robust local participation and capacity building, utilizing highly integrated and private sector solutions. Throughout our work, we embrace a virtuous circle of knowledge stewardship, collaborative learning, and application of evidence to heighten and accelerate positive health and development outcomes.

USAID/India has contracted Panagora Group to provide monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) services to generate learning inputs for the implementation of the new Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS). Panagora will conduct a final performance evaluation of the Greening the Grid (GTG) program, to be carried out in January-March 2021. GTG is a five-year project to help India meet its ambitious renewable energy (RE) targets. As part of USAIDs Asia EDGE initiative, GTG is assisting the Government of India (GOI) in integrating large-scale, variable renewable energy (VRE) into the existing power grid. Critical to it is rigorous analytical support to identify grid stability issues, options for optimizing dispatch, and sources of potential flexibility. Pilot projects are at the core of the GTG program.

The evaluation will guide USAID/India in identifying lessons learned from GTG implementation and informing similar mechanisms USAID might design in the future. The evaluation design, planning, and data collection and analysis will be conducted remotely. The evaluation will be carried out by a team of US and Indian evaluation experts in power system planning reforms; integration of large VRE parks into power grids; analysis of grid stability and security; design of technical regulatory frameworks and automatic generation controls (AGC); and forecasting, scheduling, accounting and commercial settlement regulations. The detailed evaluation questions are currently under development.

**Responsibilities**

* Lead the evaluation team in all activity planning, team coordination meetings, desk review, design and review of data collection instruments, supervise data collection, review work products from team members, and integrate work products of team members into a final report.

Perform desk review of USAID/India and GtG program documents, assessments and evaluations, and policy and planning documents from national and state GOI entities, and design the evaluation work plan with methodology, data collection instruments, list of documents for desk review, stakeholder list for interviews, and schedule of activities.

* Develop a plan for desk review and selection of relevant documents on different components of the GTG activity and support the team members in the analysis of findings and conclusions from the desk review.

* In consultation with the evaluation team members, design a complete set of structured interview guides (KIIs and FGDs) for primary data collection on different components of GTG.

* Working with the evaluation team, conduct KIIs, FGDs, and group interviews with USAID/India staff, implementing partners, national and state level GOI counterparts, private sector firms, and other identified key stakeholders using telephone and internet platforms (Skype, Zoom and similar).

* With support from the evaluation team members and in consultation with the Panagora technical lead, analyze the data collected through the desk review, KIIs, and group interviews to draft findings, conclusions and preliminary recommendations.

* Present the draft report with preliminary recommendations for discussion with USAID/India, GTG implementing partners and other stakeholders.

* Draft a final report incorporating USAID feedback, summarizing data collection, main findings and conclusions, and a set of prioritized recommendations.

**Requirements**

* Undergraduate and graduate degrees and a minimum of 15 years of experience in Electrical Engineering and/or other relevant STEM subjects.

* Deep technical understanding of power sector planning approaches and policies, including renewable energy deployment, grid modernization, distributed energy resources and storage, power sector resilience, and the data and analytical tools needed to support them.

* Understanding of power system economics, power market design and structure, and national energy policy/regulatory initiatives in developing countries.

* Understanding of technical and commercial aspects of renewable energy infrastructure projects, including technical advances and requirements in VRE, project finance, and related VRE regulatory/ policy matters in developing countries.

* Familiarity with advanced data and analytical tools for planning and designing VER projects, analyzing grid integration, grid stability and resilience, and related topics.

* Proven qualitative and quantitative analysis capability through professional experience in an energy policy setting, consulting for private sector firms in the VER sector, and/or academic research in developing countries.

* Relevant publications, such as policy briefs, sector analyses, project evaluations and other consulting reports, academic papers, etc. on power sector planning, policies, regulatory frameworks for VRE and other related topics in developing countries.

* Experience working in developing countries, preferably in South Asia.

* Ability to lead and work remotely

Reports to: Program Manager

No telephone inquiries, please. Finalists will be contacted. Only applicants who include the required application components will be considered.

Panagora Group is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

*Note: Panagora does not offer visa sponsorship at this time.

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