Extended Term Consultant - Energy Modeler

At the World Bank, a member of the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit https://www.worldbank.org/en/who-we-are/ibrd The WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams.For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure Energy Policy and Regulation Unit (KIEPR) The Policy and Regulations Unit (KIEPR) in the Energy Departments of the Infrastructure Vertical is responsible for developing enabling policies that draw from top-class knowledge and innovations to shape model policies and improve the business environment in the energy sector. At the global level, KIEPR unit closely works and collaborates with the Solutions and Impact units of the Infrastructure Vertical. In addition, KIEPR staff take the lead on embedding frontier global knowledge and expertise in energy country engagements, including joining teams in lending and analytical operations, providing peer review services and supporting the role of Global Directors in quality enhancement activities for selected strategic operations and analytical tasks. Duties and Accountabilities: The E T Consultant will support the senior members of the group on power systems planning engagements for all six regions focusing on (i) development of least-cost generation plans; (ii) transmission expansion plans and load flow studies; (iii) renewable energy integration studies; (iv) financial analysis; (v) manage a team of consultants; task manage specific operations on generation (including RE), transmission, smart grid, power market and regulation; and (vi) collaborate with other internal and external groups to enable the implementation of least cost options. The E T Consultant will work as an integral part of the Power Systems Planning group on tasks that may include inter alia: • Actively work with EPM and other planning tools to conduct modeling analysis; • Liaise with Task Team Leaders and project teams from the regions (including IFC) to develop a definition of the problem, advise solutions, prepare TORs for the work, undertake studies and review outputs; • Participate in missions as a planning specialist to discuss system planning and project specific issues; • Conduct training courses on power system planning for our client countries; and • Mentor junior team members.