Role: Fixed-term, part-time external consultant
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Nationality: Indonesian
Period: Approx. 9 months (now to March 2025) with possible extension
Time commitment: 1 to 1.5 days/week

About the role

The Carbon Trust is seeking to hire a national expert based in Indonesia with experience in energy efficiency, climate finance, project financing and public policy. The selected expert will work alongside our Singapore team to deliver project work with national and sub-national governments, multilateral donors, utilities and other energy sector stakeholders in Indonesia.

The Carbon Trust has been a global leader on advancing low-carbon policies, programmes, finance and technology for over 20 years. Our work in Indonesia has been focused on scaling up low-carbon initiatives specifically focusing on energy efficiency and climate financing interventions funded through bilateral and multilateral organisations (e.g. UK FCDO, ADB). The Energy Sector Expert will support the delivery of one of our existing donor-funded programmes in Indonesia to coordinate with project beneficiaries on a regular basis. Subject to further funding being secured, the scope of this role may expand to support other programmes too. We are looking for an experienced and motivated individual from the low carbon energy sector with strong networks, project management and consulting skills, and ideally experience engaging with financial institutions. The successful candidate will support the delivery of our energy sector programmes by providing high quality and impactful advice to our Indonesian stakeholders.

About us

The Carbon Trust is an independent, expert partner of leading organisations around the world. We advise businesses, governments, the public sector and financial institutions on their opportunities in a sustainable low carbon world; we design and manage multi-year, multistakeholder projects, to deliver real results; and we provide independent certification and assurance services that recognise achievements in sustainability. We believe that environmental sustainability and economic prosperity can go hand-in-hand as we address the climate crisis.

Main duties and responsibilities

This role will be expected to carry out the following activities to support the delivery of the UK PACT Energy Efficiency Programme:

• Initiate and conduct consultative meetings with financial institutions on financing energy efficiency projects
• Broker commercial discussions between energy efficiency project owners, financial institutions, energy service companies and guarantee agencies (national and international)
• Deliver capacity building sessions on energy efficiency finance for stakeholders in the energy efficiency ecosystem
• Contribute to report writing that form part of the programme’s deliverables
• Support regular updating of activities and progress with government counterparts
• Lead the problem-solving effort and offer local insights related to climate financing across the energy sector
• Liaise with other partners and consultants in Indonesia

Submission requirements

Candidates are required to submit the following information by email to Hazim Rosli (hazim.rosli@carbontrust.com) and Wei Yang Lee (weiyang.lee@carbontrust.com) by 14 June.

• Detailed CV
• 2-page cover letter outlining their suitability for the role
• 2 professional references
• Daily fee rate in Pound Sterling (GBP)