How You Drive Impact
As the Africa Manager, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing the portfolio of existing Solar PV C&I projects across the continent, ensuring their success and long-term sustainability. Your role will include overseeing project performance, addressing operational challenges, and identifying opportunities for improvement to maximize their impact. In addition to portfolio management, you will handle the general administrative and managerial responsibilities required to support the company’s activities in Africa. This involves collaborating with other teams in the company, exploring potential project development opportunities, aligning initiatives with organizational objectives, and ensuring compliance with local regulations. By maintaining and improving the projects performance, you will play a pivotal role in advancing the company’s mission of delivering clean energy solutions across the region.
Strategic Objectives
- Portfolio optimization: Ensure the efficient operation and performance of the existing solar PV projects while identifying opportunities to improve impact and profitability.
- Stakeholder engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, partners, and local stakeholders for collaboration and support for the company’s initiatives.
- Market intelligence and development: Monitor market trends, partnerships, and opportunities within the African Solar PV energy market to strategically position the company for potential growth.
- Operational excellence: Drive efficient processes and resource management to maximize the portfolio performance.
Foundational Objectives
- Compliance and risk management: Ensure all projects and operations adhere to local regulations, industry standards, and company policies while mitigating potential risks.
- Team development: Support and empower team members through effective leadership, training, and mentorship to build a high-performing and motivated workforce.
- Regional leadership and operations management: Act as the company’s representative across the continent, overseeing all operations, improving relationships, and ensuring alignment with the company’s global mission and objectives.
Key skills to drive impact
- Technical understanding of Solar PV projects (C&I):Deep understanding of Commercial & Industrial (C&I) solar PV systems, including design, implementation, and operational considerations, to ensure projects are performing efficiently and effectively.
- Problem-solving: Capacity to anticipate and address challenges proactively, developing innovative and practical solutions to ensure project and operational success.
- Management: Proven ability to lead teams, delegate tasks effectively, and maintain accountability while creating a supportive and productive work environment.
- Communication: Excellent communication skills to collaborate across the company, manage direct reports, and build strong relationships with clients and partners, ensuring alignment and clear understanding of goals.
- Market knowledge: Deep understanding of local regulations, market dynamics, and the renewable energy landscape in Africa
Why us?
- Work for the planet: help make a difference as we pioneer the energy transition in emerging markets
- Flexible working hours – we trust you to know how you work best
- Home office friendly #LI-Hybrid
- Close collaboration with the headquarters in Germany (Berlin)
- Bright and comfortable workspace at our office in Ikigai Lavington, in Nairobi.
- International health insurance package
- 30 days remote work
- 35 paid leave days per year
- 1.500 Euro annual professional development budget for all full time staff
- An open, diverse, and respectful company culture with a group of kind, international co-workers based in Berlin (Germany), Accra (Ghana), Nairobi (Kenya), San Jose (Costa Rica), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Santiago (Chile) and Manila (Philippines)
We are looking forward to hearing from candidates of all genders, nationalities, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Our commitment extends beyond mere representation—we firmly believe that diversity fuels innovation, fosters awareness, and enriches our workplace culture. Flexibility stands as a cornerstone of our company culture, and we've embraced a hybrid work environment to ensure that all our ecolleagues feel fully included. Join us as we lead the global energy revolution together.
About us
Every day at ecoligo we work to fight the climate crisis, bringing solar energy to businesses in countries like Ghana, Kenya, Vietnam, Philippines, Chile, Panama and Costa Rica amongst others through the ecoligo Impact-Investing platform. We own and manage each energy project allowing us to deliver both environmental and economic returns. Our Impact-Investors earn a solid financial return, and our solar clients get an energy provider that is fairer, more affordable and more efficient. So far, ecoligo projects have prevented—or will prevent—over 1,785,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering our atmosphere. And we are just getting started!