Customized Energy Solutions Hiring for Program Associate – Rural Electrification and Livelihoods_23 at Pune, Maharashtra Full Time

Customized Energy Solutions (CES), a privately held company, is a leading service provider of market intelligence and operational support services to companies participating in the retail and wholesale electric and natural gas markets. Utilizing deep know-how developed since the inception of the deregulated energy markets, CES provides accurate & timely analysis on regulatory changes, market opportunities, and operational efficiencies for electricity and natural gas commodities.

Join a rapidly growing company in an exciting and dynamic work environment. As one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the Philadelphia region, Customized Energy Solutions offers an opportunity for significant professional growth. Our team of associates at CES is highly motivated, innovative, and passionate about providing excellent Services to our clients. Our main office is in Philadelphia, with satellite offices in various U.S., Canada, India, Japan and Vietnam.

We started our India operations as Customized Energy Solutions India Pvt. Ltd in 2010. We work with commercial and industrial customers to help reduce their energy costs through better utilization of the energy markets and emerging technologies. We have helped bring innovative energy services such as demand response to India. We are pioneering in exploring integration of latest technologies such as energy storage, microgrids as well as smart grid maturity model to Indian consumers.

In 2016, understanding the rural electrification landscape and working with several stakeholders, CES launched an initiative MICRO – Microgrid Initiative for Campus and Rural Opportunities.

CES started work on integrating microgrids for economic development of rural and underprivileged communities, to develop livelihood opportunities for tribal communities. CES is actively running a rural enterprise development program which aims at research, development, and deployment of small and medium-sized pulse/ Agri processing units in the districts of Hazaribagh and Ramgarh in state of Jharkhand. Idea is to identify local cropping pattern and work with local communities and support them with developing sustainable businesses own, run, and managed by tribal communities from that region. Empowering rural India through community-led microenterprises

To further aid in this work, Customized Energy Solutions created the Customized Energy Solutions Foundation whose mission is to promote economic development through the advancement of transparent, efficient, and sustainable deployment of income generating opportunities for underprivileged communities. We focus on empowering rural communities by sharing our understanding of the workings of the microgrids and related new technologies and supporting rural communities to successfully run clean powered businesses.

We provide clean and reliable energy through microgrids for powering productive end use applications for underprivileged communities. We support local communities to build financially and environmentally sustainable businesses from the energy produced by the microgrids. We also help rural communities towards installation, capacity building and market linkages for the successful running of the small-scale businesses.

The Foundation aspires to work on the 3I formula for enabling economic development. We innovate and integrate technical, social, and financial solutions for the rural communities. This helps in inclusion of maximum beneficiary in the communities. Thus, holistic economic development is achieved in terms of better society, better quality of living, positive environment and happiness and prosperity of everyone in the community which we are trying to serve.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Understanding rural landscape of India and work with stakeholders for deployment and demonstration of livelihoods solutions.

Mapping, Development, and deployment of emerging technologies for enhancing rural economic development

Exploring market linkages/channels for efficient delivery of goods and services related to agricultural goods, dairy and other livelihoods

Smart micro/campus grids for tele-education, tele-medicine

Facilitating investment opportunities for innovative technologies (fin tech, Agri solutions, PAYG)

Electrical mobility mapping and opportunities for rural development

Open to travel on sites in Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Maharashtra for 8 – 10 days in a month

The candidate should be able to understand and analyze ongoing and past work in MICRO initiative at CES including priority areas, key projects/programmes/work themes.

The individual should be able to gauge the external communication landscape of other organizations & influencers, in the energy access, Minigrids, livelihood, SDGs and allied workspaces.

Anchor critical research and learning exercises to communicate key practices, approaches and strategy of the program.

Anchor and manage MICRO vertical communication-led interventions in a strategic manner to ensure a seamless flow of information consistent with the organization’s philosophy

Interaction and proposal development with funder, Donors, Multi and Bilateral Agencies for fund raising and managing the grant and delivery report with the team

Manage Local women entrepreneurs and help them in bundling their capacity for enhancing their income generation.

Qualifications

Minimum graduate in Engineering/Science/Development studies

Experience: 1-3 years

Additional Information

Customized Energy Solutions offers competitive salary commensurate with experience. Benefits include comprehensive health Insurance, disability insurance, gym membership, Employee Provident Fund Scheme and Gratuity Scheme.