Allied Talent Partners

Technical Working Group Lead – Energy Trade, Industrial Growth

Allied Talent Partners

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Johannesburg • South Africa

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Senior

About the role

  • Establish and lead the Energy Trade & Industrial Growth TWG with representation from across the region and across organisation types, including energy ministries, regulators, utilities, power pools, private developers, investors, and development partners.
  • Identify, invite, and onboard TWG members in coordination with the Secretariat.
  • Plan, schedule, and chair regular (typically weekly) TWG meetings.
  • Hold the pen on shared TWG documents, synthesising and consolidating inputs from participants.
  • Circulate clear summaries, decisions, and next steps after each meeting.
  • Coordinate closely with the Summit Programme Lead to ensure alignment with Summit priorities and timelines.
  • Oversee the production of a concise Sector Status Report on regional energy trade and industrial growth.
  • Synthesise existing data, diagnostics, and project pipelines with a focus on regional power trade, industrial demand, and investment readiness.
  • Highlight regional constraints, opportunities, and priority intervention areas, including cross-border interoperability and infrastructure gaps.
  • Lead the drafting, with TWG input, of a policy and regulatory reform framework required to unlock regional energy trade and industrial investment.
  • Address priority areas such as cross-border power trade rules, tariff and wheeling frameworks, market integration, grid codes, and utility and power pool coordination.
  • Ensure recommendations are actionable, regionally coherent, and investor-relevant.
  • Lead the identification and curation of a ranked pipeline of priority energy trade and industrial growth investments (e.g. cross-border transmission, regional generation projects, industrial power supply platforms, and grid reinforcement).
  • Apply clear screening and scoring criteria to assess scale, regional relevance, readiness, and impact.
  • Coordinate closely with the Summit Deal Room team to support investor engagement and matchmaking.
  • Lead the design of energy trade and industrial growth–focused Summit sessions, including objectives, formats, speakers, and key messages.
  • Ensure sessions and Deal Room engagements are anchored in concrete investment opportunities and policy reform pathways.
  • Support live Summit delivery, including speaker coordination and technical input as required.
  • Contribute to post-Summit reporting by documenting energy-related outcomes, including policy priorities agreed, investment opportunities advanced, and key follow-up actions.
  • Support consolidation of TWG outputs into final Summit reports, briefs, or communiqués.
  • Provide technical input to post-Summit partner and investor follow-up as required.

Requirements

  • Minimum 12+ years of experience in energy policy, power markets, energy infrastructure, or energy investment.
  • Proven experience working across multiple African countries at regional level, with strong familiarity with West Africa.
  • Deep familiarity with utilities, regional power pools, regulators, and DFIs.
  • Demonstrated experience engaging with governments, private developers, investors, and development partners.
  • Credibility to operate at senior technical and ministerial levels.
  • Strong analytical and synthesis skills.
  • Ability to translate complex technical and policy issues into clear, actionable outputs.
  • Experience curating and assessing investment pipelines.
  • Strong facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • High levels of organisation, professionalism, and accountability.
  • Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage credibly with senior government, private sector, and development partners.
  • Sound judgement and political sensitivity in complex, multistakeholder and regional environments.
  • Strong end-to-end ownership, with the ability to work independently, manage multiple workstreams, and deliver high-quality outputs under compressed timelines.
  • Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills.
  • High levels of professionalism, discretion, and accountability.
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