Senior Energy Officer at Action Against Hunger | ACF International

Action Against Hunger | ACF International, a global humanitarian organization committed to ending world hunger, works to save the lives of malnourished children while providing communities with access to safe water and sustainable solutions to hunger.

• Location: Abuja, FCT, Nigeria
• Type Job: Full Time 
• Reporting to: Logistics Specialist

  Proposed start date: July 2025

Key responsibilities:

• Perform electrical safety diagnostics of ACF facilities of the bases of assignment;
• Audit of future facilities in security and production means;
• Carry out diagnostics and sizing of electrical production sources for the ACF facilities in his/her areas of assignment;
• Control and ensure that ACF buildings comply with the energy standard (diagnostics & recommendations);
• Regular control of installations and equipment (air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, …) ;
• Write the works terms of reference for subcontracting;
• Compliance check after subcontracting works;
• Identification and validation of electrical suppliers;
• Quality and quantity control of delivery on base;
• Define and improve energy requirements and means of production;
• Audit of future buildings in security and means of production;
• Quantify energy needs, verify that the means of production are sufficient and adapted;
• Propose solutions to improve the facilities, including reducing the environmental impact of energy production;
• Support the logistics teams in the choice of their electrical production means;
• Define the budgetary needs in order to support the logistics teams in the choice of their production means solutions;
• Support to the logistic teams in the evaluation of the recycling capacities of electrical equipment;
• Plan and organize the maintenance of production equipment;
• Support the log teams in carrying out maintenance;
• Checking the presence of spare parts for maintenance;
• Regular monitoring of production sources;
• Define a multi-year investment and renewal plan for production sources based on the needs and life cycles of existing resources;
• Direct realization of the maintenance of the equipment of production/energy source;
• Draw up a preventive maintenance schedule for electrical equipment and installations;
• Electrical cabinets, power cable, light bulbs & other;
• Inverters & battery systems (with or without solar);
• Solar energy systems;
• Generators;
• Tension stabilizers;
  • Automatic source inverters
  • ICT UPS
  • Video surveillance system and security camera
  • Lightning rod
  • Fire detection system
  • Night-time security lighting systems
  • All other electrical equipment;
  • Consolidate and analyze the intervention sheets (preventive or curative) of the country base of the teams and subcontractors, draw a technical analysis and optimization and/or mutualization solutions;
  • Train a focal point to perform level 1 maintenance (change filters, …);
• Supervise level 1 maintenance (outsourced or focal point);
• Carry out level 1 maintenance (during a visit);
• Perform level 2 maintenance;
• Supervise subcontracted level 2 maintenance;
• Supervise subcontracted level 3 maintenance (complex repairs) in the capital or region;
• Design and write work specifications;
• Design the necessary equipment list;
• Support the Supply Team for the order and the choice of the supplier (evaluation table);
• Supervise the work schedule and the associated human resources;
• Supervise the progress of the work and regularly inform the stakeholders;
• Manage the works and inform regularly;
• Ensure communication with users (inform of outages, …);
• Carry out user training;
• Produce user training materials;
• Facilitate the integration of the work schedule with the Field Coordinator / Logistics Manager;
• Control of the work carried out (phase balancing, control of differentials, …);
• Check that the Logisticians in charge have the capacity to manage their facilities with appropriate training;
• Ensure through a training plan that log staff have the capacity to manage their facilities with appropriate training;
• Design and display the start/stop procedures of the equipment (groups, …);
• Design with the logistician and display a hourly schedule of use of equipment adapted to the energy sources;
• Ensure the training of guards in procedures, planning and proper use of equipment;
• Ensure electrical safety awareness for all staff at least once a year on all bases and sub-bases;
• Treat all users in a respectful and fair manner, in accordance with ACF’s code of conduct and policies (gender, safeguarding, etc.);
• Supporting program teams in writing a project proposal (from the definition of the need, study and design of project, material list and BOQ, estimated project timeline and associated technical justification). Integration of this support in a form that can be reproduced directly by the programs and according to a set of program and technical inputs;
• Manage a solar pumping project (support to WASH teams, (Study and design of the project, until implementation);
• Manage an electrification project in general (health center, schools, …), from the definition of the need, study and design of the project, to the implementation;
• Manage technical support with Logistics (LOG) and Nutrition NUT) team on specification, civil engineering and commissioning of temperature controlled pharmacy insulation;
• Provide technical support to the NUT team on the sizing, installation and commissioning of cold chain power supply reliability (and device recommendations);
• Provide technical support to the NUT team (and with the support of the WASH team) on the sizing, installation and commissioning of solar irrigation;
• Provide technical support to the NUT team on the sizing, installation and commissioning of the electrification of health centers;
• Study and Design of Pharmacy and temperature controlled room isolated and electrified according to the climatic context;
• Supervise the completion and acceptance of Pharmacy and/or temperature controlled room work;
• Train users in the installation of production equipment;
• Design and supervise the preventive maintenance schedule of the medical structures’ equipment;
• Train a focal point to perform level 1 maintenance (change filters, …);
• Supervise level 1 maintenance (outsourced or focal point);
• Carry out level 1 maintenance (during a visit);
• Perform level 2 maintenance;
• Supervise subcontracted level 2 maintenance;
• Supervise subcontracted level 3 maintenance (complex repairs) in the capital or region;
• Installation of temperature and humidity control systems;
• Support the log & program teams for cold chain equipment;
• Drafting of terms of reference for bases visit;
• Coordination of field visit logistics;
• Define with his manager the 3 months / 6 months / one year objectives of the energy activity based on Country;
• Plan and coordinate the energy visit schedule with the bases/sub-bases in connection with the definition of the objectives;
• Participate in the technical evaluation of energy assistants;
• Manage the Energy Assistant (training, control of work done, annual evaluations, …).

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree / Higher National Diploma in Electrical / Electronics Engineering or related fields;
• Minimum of 2 to 3 years work experience in similar responsibilities is required;
• Licensed by at least 1 local engineering regulatory body (COREN, NSE);
• Professional certificate(s) and/or trainings in the energy/electrical field;
• Previous experience working for NGOs an asset, particularly international related NGOs;
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organized, rigorous, self-motivated, strong sense of responsibility, ability to work independently;
• Strong verbal, written and communication skills;
• Able to work effectively in diverse, cross-cultural teams in a complex, multi-site work environment.

Application Dealine 10th June 2025

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