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Job Title: Project Coordinator
Organisation: Impact Carbon
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
About Us:
Impact Carbon’s mission is to improve health and the environment in
developing countries through clean energy projects that reduce carbon
emissions. Impact Carbon generates carbon emission reductions from household
energy projects that improve living conditions in the less-developed
communities we serve. We leverage the financial returns from these projects to
benefit local partners and people.
Typical Impact Carbon projects involve scaling the sales and
distribution of efficient appliances such as healthy cookstoves and water
treatment devices. Impact Carbon works with investors, project developers,
philanthropists, and NGOs to quantify the carbon emissions reduced by our
projects and to verify them to rigorous carbon standards. Impact Carbon’s headquarters office is in San Francisco, California,
with an office in Kampala, Uganda. 
Job Summary: The Project
Coordinator will be responsible for supporting Impact Carbon’s market research
program and for overseeing successful implementation of a Global Alliance for Clean
Cookstoves-funded Project, Providing Sustainable Market Channels for Household
Energy Products in Uganda. The goal of this program is to facilitate the
expansion of Impact Carbon’s network of distribution partners to provide sustainable
market channels for household energy product across Uganda; the grant also
supports the full-scale launch of the BioLite Home Stove to Ugandan consumers.
Heavy emphasis will be placed on evaluating return on investment for marketing
efforts across various sales channels. This is a unique opportunity to join a
fast-moving startup focused on creating cutting-edge market-based solutions to energy
access. You will have the opportunity to work on a range of products and
research programs across a vast network of partners, including energy-efficient
cookstoves and water treatment systems.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Supervise project implementation according
    to timelines
  • Logistics: Equipment and product
    procurement, Importation, Warehousing, Deliveries
  • Market Research: Sample product testing
    and research
  • Marketing: Support creation of a
    comprehensive marketing, branding and sales strategy for project
    technologies. Develop marketing collateral; establish new sales
    initiatives; partner with local NGOs and retailers to scale marketing and
    distribution efforts; identify and build relationships with new
    distribution channels; and work with local partners to run effective and
    well-targeted marketing campaigns.
  • Financing: Support creation of a
    comprehensive project financing program, including partner identification
    and recruitment, diligence, credit extension, payment tracking and ongoing
    support.
  • Ensure capture and knowledge management of
    project learnings
  • Ensure contractual compliance with
    financial reporting requirements
  • Oversee creation of project accountability
    systems: Human Resources, Accounting
  • Manage project budget and development of
    quarterly financial reports. Liaise with SF
  • Accounting Team and Uganda Accounting Team
    to compile and submit required financial reports.
  • Ensure timely invoicing
  • Ensure contractual compliance with
    performance reporting requirements
  • Track required M&E per framework
  • Monitor project progress against
    established milestones
  • Develop systems for and ensure ongoing
    evaluation of ROI for sales channels and marketing efforts
  • Ensure development stove inventory
    management and tracking systems to track sales
  • Develop funder reports for the UN
    Foundation (including quarterly financial and project reports
  • Liaise with Project Team and Consultants
    via regular check-ins
  • Develop an effective organizational system
    and set of controls with new manufacturing partners
  • Build networks of key manufacturing
    partners and stakeholders
  • Manage capacity building and human
    resources systems
  • Oversee management and monitoring of
    partner recordkeeping, financial systems and manufacturing systems
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The applicant should possess a Degree in
    economics, public health, public policy, social sciences or related fields
    desirable
  • Three or more years of related work
    experience vital
  • A good track record of success in project
    and financial management essential
  • Experience in social science field
    research and familiarity with randomized evaluations desirable
  • Experience in sales and marketing,
    preferably for base of pyramid customer population desirable
  • Developing country experience preferred
  • Experience of managing funder and partner
    relations preferred
  • Excellent management and organizational
    skills
  • Excellent writing and communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks
    efficiently and to meet deadlines with limited supervision
  • Attention to detail
  • Professionalism; Ability to work
    effectively in cross-cultural environments
  • Willingness to travel frequently
  • Enthusiastic and creative thinker                                              
Compensation: Impact Carbon
offers a highly competitive salary and benefits package. Salary is dependent on
experience.
How to Apply:
All applicants should apply via email by sending a one-page cover
letter with attached resume to jobs@impactcarbon.org. Please clearly state the
subject as ” Project Coordinator” in all e-mail correspondence. Use the
exact position title in subject line to ensure that the hiring manager receives
your application. No phone calls or posted mail applications, please. We request
that you tell us where you heard about this position; please include that
information in your cover letter.
NB: Impact Carbon is an
Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons regardless of race, color, creed,
national origin, ancestry, sex, marital status, disability, religious or
political affiliation, age, or sexual orientation shall have equal access to
positions, limited only by their ability to do the job.
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