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Join the Green Africa Youth Organization as a Project Coordinator – Energy: Apply Now

Ednah Carrick February 15, 2026

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Closing Date: 27 February 2026

Join the Green Africa Youth Organization as a Project Coordinator – Energy: Apply Now

GAYO is looking for a dedicated and visionary individual to lead delivery coordination for GAYO’s RePower commitments, driving implementation planning, partner and stakeholder engagement, reporting, and evidence generation to support impact and replication.

About

GAYO is a youth-led, gender-balanced Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that advocates for environmental sustainability and community development. Founded in 2014, GAYO is dedicated to raising awareness, educating, and building the capacity of various stakeholders to adopt sustainable environmental practices that meet the needs of the present generation without compromising future generations’ quality of life. To achieve its objective, GAYO works with various institutions and multiple levels of governance to implement climate change, circular economy, and disaster risk reduction projects within communities.

GAYO’s Energy portfolio advances equitable access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy by combining youth- and gender-responsive programming with practical community engagement, capacity building, and stakeholder coordination. The portfolio is designed to ensure energy transition efforts translate into real outcomes, productive-use electricity (PUE) for livelihoods and local enterprise, inclusive participation and decision-making, and implementation pathways that are socially fair, economically viable, and climate-aligned.

Within this portfolio, RePower is a flagship four-year Horizon Europe project improving renewable energy access in off-grid African communities through modular, plug-and-play microgrids integrating solar PV, battery energy storage (BESS), and agri-waste biomass CHP (BCHP), coordinated by an intelligent energy management system (EMS). This approach increases renewable energy penetration, strengthens reliability and resilience, and is projected to reduce electricity costs by 60–70% compared to conventional microgrid solutions.

Role Overview

The Project Coordinator – Energy will lead delivery coordination for GAYO’s RePower commitments, driving implementation planning, partner and stakeholder engagement, reporting, and evidence generation to support impact and replication. GAYO’s Energy portfolio is advancing equitable access to clean, reliable, and affordable energy by combining youth- and gender-responsive programming with practical community engagement, capacity building, and stakeholder coordination.

The portfolio spans multiple workstreams, including community energy access, productive-use electricity (PUE) for livelihoods, youth and women energy enterprise pathways, and enabling environment partnerships, implemented through a mix of active grants and a growing project pipeline.

Duties and Responsibilities

In the first 12–18 months, the Project Coordinator – Energy will play a leading role in:

Operationalize a portfolio-wide delivery system by translating portfolio plans into a single, integrated workplan (activities, owners, dependencies, timelines, and budgets) with clear governance, quality control, and escalation pathways. This system should support multiple concurrent projects while ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, donor requirements, and community priorities.
Strengthen the Energy pipeline and program design (including initiatives such as Charge Africa) by developing implementable project designs, partnership packages, and resource-mobilization materials that complement existing grants and expand portfolio depth and sustainability.
Deliver inclusive, community-owned implementation across energy workstreams by standardizing community entry protocols, embedding youth and women’s participation and leadership, and translating community-identified PUE opportunities into practical livelihood and enterprise pathways with partners.
Institutionalize evidence, accountability, and learning across the Energy portfolio by operationalizing a harmonized MEAL and evidence system that meets donor standards, supports audits, and generates decision-ready learning products for scale and replication.
Deepen partner, government, and ecosystem coordination to de-risk delivery and enable scale by proactively managing relationships with donors, consortium/implementing partners, Ministry of Energy and relevant institutions, local authorities, technical actors, and private-sector stakeholders, aligning incentives and positioning successful models for sustainability and co-investment

Required Experience

At least 5 years of progressive experience in project/program coordination or management in clean energy access, climate, development, or related fields (multi-stakeholder and community-facing work required).
Proven experience managing donor-funded projects, including workplanning, budgeting support, reporting, partner coordination, and risk management.
Demonstrated experience designing and delivering capacity-building programs, training, or community engagement processes.
Experience working with government counterparts and/or policy processes is strongly preferred.