Husk is one of the world’s leading distributed utilities. Founded in 2008, the company provides reliable power to rural communities and businesses, entirely from renewable energy sources – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – at a price they can afford. It offers customers a flexible “pay-as-you-go” energy service, using a mobile-enabled smart metering system. It provides low-cost energy that matches the growing needs of our customers; for households, community services and productive uses. Its grid-compatible solution can be rolled out quickly and cost-effectively to support national electrification plans.
Requirements
- Support all GIS/site scoping related activities across Nigeria (and other potential markets).
- Regularly interact with various internal and external stakeholders for site identification/selection activities.
- Support the optimization of various Husk NG activities to ensure best practices are entrenched towards more efficient processes.
- Understand the priorities of the country operations and support the Country team when necessary.
- Provide requisite support and inputs on building and aligning various company processes and policies according to global best practices.
- Other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Site Identification and Deployment
- Support in defining the site selection criteria for HMG locations with inputs from the relevant team members.
- Support work planning and the implementation of all GIS/site identification tasks.
- Support the preparation of country-level geospatial analysis and GIS modelling strategy and implement this in order to develop pipelines of viable communities/locations.
- Utilize data visualization/analysis tools including customized dashboards for site mapping.
- Support relevant teams in deploying mobile data collection apps for use during field surveys and enumeration activities.
- Support the management of survey data collection and the application of relevant data sets for site scoping activities.
- Support the building of load profiles using collated data to feed into the system sizing activities.
- Coordinate location-based analytics with innovative spatial intelligence, business intelligence, and statistical and predictive analytics tools to create unique analytical solutions and insights that support both strategic and operational decision-making.
Business Growth and Support
- Ensure support for other Business Units for alignment with GIS/site selection/land survey tasks.
- Work with relevant Business Units to ensure relevant land lease documents, building permits, other land documentation for compliance purposes.
- Support business growth and continuous cost & quality improvements in the business.
- Support in the preparation of proposals, technical inputs, bill of materials, budgets, and technical drawings for the submission of such proposals.
- Coordinate, maintain regular communication, and develop positive and productive relationships with various stakeholders, regulatory stakeholders, customer/client groups etc.
- Support communication channels for engagements with all relevant stakeholders during site selection/land survey and other related processes
Qualifications
- Ability to develop and update professional knowledge and skills quickly and efficiently. Ability to apply professional knowledge and skills in the advancement of business objectives.
- Effectively carry out tasks that are required by internal terms in addition to carrying out own role.
- Adapts to changes in company strategy whilst developing own strategy to achieve personal goals of competently owning and managing processes.
- Assesses own development needs and develops self to improve job performance and fulfil future potential. Contributes to the team ethos and instilling the values of the Company.
- The ability to evaluate and convey complex information to others in an effective manner through concise communication skills and clear presentation skills in both verbal and written contexts.
- Should possess requisite skill sets- active listening, speaking, reading, comprehension, critical thinking, performance monitoring, time management, people management, material resource management, effective time management, judgment and decision making, teaching, coaching, and social awareness.
- A minimum of 3 years of work experience and 2 years of experience in a similar role within the energy/infrastructure/development sector.
- Graduate from a leading institution with a related degree in GIS/Surveying and other related subjects. Postgraduate degree and/or related professional qualifications, a plus.
- This position requires an in-depth understanding of GIS/Survey capabilities, critical thinking, and the ability to provide time-bound solutions to the benefit of the company.
- Excellent skills with QGIS or ArcGIS, Google Earth, Microsoft Office tools and project management tools (MS Project, Power BI, etc)
Method of Application
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