Project Coordinator, Energizing Humanitarian Futures Technical Assistance Programme, Ethiopia

This position is contingent to funding confirmation

Location

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Position Status

Full-time

Risk Level

Level 3: Frequent contact with participants, direct contact with children, access to sensitive data, and/or high level of accountability.

About Prosper Global

Barely enough is not enough for anyone. Prosper Global is a humanitarian organization working alongside communities facing conflict, climate change, and economic hardship to meet urgent needs and create the conditions for lasting progress. Today's challenges demand new solutions, so we pair local knowledge with global resources to help communities build what's needed, test what's possible, and scale what's proven so that people everywhere can pursue a full life on their own terms. In 2026, we changed our name from Mercy Corps to Prosper Global, to reflect our belief that when every community can prosper, all of humanity moves forward.

About Programs at Proper Global

In conflict-affected, displaced, and disaster-stricken areas, access to reliable and affordable energy is often a critical challenge. The Global Platform for Action on Sustainable Energy in Displacement Settings (hosted by UNOPS) and Prosper Global are implementing the Energizing Humanitarian Futures project to address this gap by focusing on clean energy as a key enabler to improve the lives of vulnerable populations, leading to enhanced food security/livelihoods, protection, WASH, shelter/settlements and coordination outcomes. The project seeks to transform energy access in humanitarian settings by empowering humanitarian actors, governments, and the private sector to deploy and finance sustainable energy solutions for long-term impact and reducing humanitarian aid. The project will support the development of public-private partnerships (PPPs) and strengthen the enabling environment to enable energy access at scale. It will support the development of country-level project pipelines and regional energy strategies for refugee/IDP hosting regions (in Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya), combining it with global level action on innovative financing, coalition building and knowledge sharing, with the goal of accelerating effective investment plans for humanitarian energy projects. Expected outcomes include the development of coordinated, localized energy plans and project pipeline development, mobilizing financial and technical resources, learning from new delivery models and increased knowledge exchange around successful clean energy models in these contexts.

Building on its long-term presence and deep experience in humanitarian energy programming, within Energizing Humanitarian Futures (EHF), Prosper Global serves as the primary in-country partner for the project in Uganda and Ethiopia. Prosper Global's main role in the project is to lead and manage in-country activities, local partnerships, and capacity-building efforts to scale access to clean energy in humanitarian settings. Prosper Global complements the GPA's global role in strategic advocacy, systemic orchestration, effective knowledge generation and resource mobilization by providing local operational presence and technical expertise for project pipeline development and implementation at the national and local levels, for both Prosper Global and the wider partner environment.

The Position

Reporting to the Energizing Humanitarian Futures (EHF) Project Lead, in close collaboration with the EHF Project Coordinator and Uganda Lead, and in coordination with the Global Platform for Action (GPA) Secretariat team management, the EHF Ethiopia Coordinator will lead the Ethiopia-specific in-country activities for the EHF programme, including:

• Engage with key stakeholders across the humanitarian and energy spaces, highlighting entry points and bridging opportunities. Represent EHF at events, working groups, conferences and stakeholder meetings, providing direct support and advisory to key government ministries.
• Identify project opportunities and design and deliver energy programmes in collaboration with the wider stakeholder ecosystem (UN, INGOs, donors, financers, local and refugee led organisations, private sector companies and financial institutions, etc).
• Coordinate working groups or stakeholder networks at national and sub-national level (on a needs basis).
• Contribute to the design and lead the delivery of tailored public-private partnership development workshops to co-create sustainable, market-driven energy solutions, primarily focused on refugee hosting districts.
• Conduct technical assessments and scoping missions for development of new market-based energy access projects and programmes.
• Provide technical support on the design and implementation of these projects, including refining business models, risk mitigation, financing strategies, collaboration with stakeholders and alignment with donors, government, and investor requirements.
• Lead the delivery of donor-facing briefing notes based on the identified and supported projects, and advocate for their implementation.
• Generate and disseminate knowledge based on EHF programme outputs as well as wider MC and GPA evidence generation.

The primary goal is to collaboratively identify and develop opportunities for market-based energy programmes and projects in refugee hosting districts, promoting engagement of private sector actors.

Supporting the EHF Project Lead and Project Coordinator, the EHF Ethiopia Coordinator will coordinate closely with the GPA Secretariat hosted at UNOPS, which is recognized as the humanitarian energy convening body to advance SDG 7 – access to sustainable energy for all – in forced displacement contexts, along with GPA Steering Group members to provide ecosystem support and identify project opportunities. Under this close collaboration, the EHF Ethiopia Coordinator will ensure that all data-driven research and consequent advocacy are aligned to strengthen and maximize impact.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Organizes workshops, scoping missions, and stakeholder consultations.
• Supports PPP incubation and project pipeline development in Ethiopia.
• Leads data collection and inputs.
• Manages relationships with government, private sector, INGOs and local NGOs, and leads in-country coordination, including sectoral networks.
• Ensures inclusion of refugee-led organizations and local actors.
• Leads on communications and MEL activities.

Supervisory Responsibility

None or TBD

Accountability

Reports Directly To: Megan Taeuber, EHF Project Lead

Works Directly With: Enter Energy Ethiopia PM, EHF team, Humanitarian Energy Plc team, MC Ethiopia team, TEQ Climate Solutions team, Global Platform for Action (GPA) Secretariat (hosted at UNOPS), GPA Steering Group members, THEA partners, Government of Ethiopia partners

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders

Prosper Global team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects

Minimum Qualification & Transferable Skills

• Proven expertise in advocacy vis-à-vis Government of Ethiopia, UN and INGOs is required.
• Previous experience working with UN and/or INGOs in energy or humanitarian teams is highly recommended.
• Previous experience of working in Ethiopia's refugee and/or IDP response.
• 6+ years required providing technical support in sustainable energy access and/or climate resilience that includes:
• Grant writing, research, and proposal development.
• Technical advisory and advocacy.
• Stakeholder engagement, including working with local communities.
• Business development.
• Writing and publishing articles and blogs.
• Combining strong theoretical and applied knowledge of the field of expertise.
• Familiarity with integrated approaches and applying systems thinking.
• MEL, evidence generation and knowledge dissemination.