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Leading THEA Programme Delivery

• Support promotion of Ashden’s THEA call for applications, and encourage refugee-led organisations and refugee businesses to apply for the different calls

• Support selection of refugee-led organisations and refugee businesses (grantees) who will

  participate in Ashden’s THEA work.

• Conduct organisational assessments and due diligence on grantees and prepare grant agreements.

• Coordinate implementation of grantee projects; tracking progress against programme plans.

• Identify and appoint suitable consultants to support with technical assistance, research and

  communications activities with grantees.

• Work with refugee-led organisations and refugee businesses to identify and pursue new sources of

  finance, including grants and investment, and support each organisation in their efforts to secure suitable financing.

• Support refugee-led organisations and refugee businesses to develop organisational policies and

  procedures to prepare them to access new sources of finance.

• Take an outcomes-focused approach to programme delivery, continuously monitoring and

  adjusting milestones and outputs where necessary to achieve results.

• Lead programme monitoring and reporting activities, and budget tracking.

• Work with THEA partners and consultants to deliver research, advocacy and communications

  outputs related to the programme.

• Collate and manage data on refugee-led organisations, refugee businesses and other partners

  related to the THEA programme, ensuring all information is entered on Ashden’s CRM system.

Communications & Network Building

• In co-ordination with the Head of International Programmes and Communications Team, develop

  and deliver events and webinars to share programmatic insights to relevant audiences.

• Develop and strengthen relationships with existing and new funders and investors, supporting

  colleagues to organise investor engagement events.

• Work closely with the Communications Team to ensure that learning from Ashden’s THEA work is

  widely shared and communicated, using a range of resources to write and contribute to written

  outputs including but not limited to blogs, case studies and project progress reports for a variety of

  audiences.

• Contribute content to enhance Ashden and THEA’s social media presence relating to its

  humanitarian clean energy programmes.

• Build networks of relevant stakeholders, including those with experience in humanitarian,

  development and climate finance; energy access; and climate change in the Global South, to

  contribute to the THEA programme as knowledge partners, funders, and investors.

• Represent Ashden at relevant conferences and events.

Monitoring and reporting

• Act as point of contact with grantees throughout the programme period, ensuring strong

  relationships are maintained.

• Work closely with the Impact Lead and programme colleagues to ensure monitoring tools and

  processes are developed and used in accordance with THEA objectives, and that project

  deliverables and impact are effectively captured and communicated.

• Provide relevant and timely information to the Finance team and Head of International

• Programmes to ensure budgets can be effectively monitored and managed, and finance reports

  prepared for donors.

• Work closely with programme and fundraising colleagues to ensure lessons learned from

  programme implementation are incorporated into future programme design.

• Contribute to organisational monitoring, evaluation, learning and improvement activities.

General responsibilities

• Be an ambassador for Ashden.

• Be proactive in keeping up to date with developments affecting your work and maintain and

  improve personal competence through continuous professional development.

• Be flexible and carry out other associated duties as may arise, develop or be assigned in line with

  the broad remit of the position.

• Support and promote diversity and equality of opportunity in the workplace.

• Work collaboratively with others in all aspects of Ashden’s work.

SCOPE & ACCOUNTABILITY

Decision making and limits of authority

• Assessment and recommendations for selection of potential sub-grantees use of development sub-grants and provision of technical assistance.

• Responsible for continuously evaluating own projects and deciding when to take a new approach to ensure successful outcomes, seeking advice frommore senior staff as appropriate.

• Financial resources Advising on use of sub-grants and budget for external costs in line with approved programme budgets and Ashden finance procedures (circa £150,000pa)

Information resources

• Ensure Ashden CRM is maintained for all programmatic contacts, and relevant documents are correctly named and filed in Sharepoint.

• Ensure articles, reports and publications are suitable for publication (including being proof-read and designed where necessary).

• Proactively monitors external information sources (e.g. news, published research, social media) and shares with colleagues as appropriate.

Other resources

• People management Co-ordinate work with other consultants and contractors appointed by

• Ashden to work on the THEA programme as required.

Legal, regulatory and compliance

• Ensure compliance with financial management procedures.

• Ensure compliance with Ashden’s policies and procedures including:

1. Data protection

2. Safeguarding

3. Health and safety

4. Equal Opportunity and Diversity Procedures