Program Manager - Urban Cookstoves

C-Quest Capital LLC (CQC) is a social impact project developer & carbon finance business that works in the poorest communities around the world providing access to sustainable energy services and clean energy technologies that help reduce humanity’s carbon footprint, mitigate global climate change and improve the health of those in the greatest need. Our Transformation Carbon Projects (TCP), provide investors with verified carbon offset credits sourced from social welfare projects in developing countries under our three operational platforms: Cleaner Cooking, Efficient Lighting & Sustainable Energy. These projects are conducted at scale with our internationally based teams & on-the-ground implementation partners resulting in measurable impacts for the families and communities we serve worldwide.

CQC is headquartered in Washington DC, USA, with subsidiaries in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia and Australia and operations in over 20 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Key responsibilities:  reporting to the Director of Business Development Planning, the Program Manager (PM) is responsible for the overall performance and project success through:

• Day-to-day supervision and implementation of an urban cookstove program in Lilongwe. Management and oversight of a large Stove Champions programme whose goal is to ensure households are actively participating in and using programme cookstoves.
• All management, operational, administrative, financial, and technical activities on the programme. This includes tracking programme impact and coordinating with CQC business practices and partners, as well as our primary manufacturer and distributor of CQC cookstoves and sustainable fuels.
• Oversight of carbon program activities related to programme validation, client registration, programme monitoring, programme crediting, programme reporting activities.
• Close coordination with CQC’s carbon sustainability and accountability teams
• Close coordination with other CQC business units, program partners, local governance and community leaders, and other programme stakeholders.

Requirements/ Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in energy and environmental related field, business administration/management, community development and social work, or other relevant areas.
• Strong project management experience.
• Minimum of 10 years’ relevant experience.
• Experience working for an international organization (business, non-profit, or governmental).
• Strong knowledge and understanding related to cleaner cooking, its challenges, and opportunities in implementation.
• Experience in cookstoves project implementation structure at a community level.
• Skills in ICT operation, and proficient in using MS Office.
• Skills and experience in electronic data collection tools using android phones with adequate skills on internet usage.
• Possess good analytical, management and leadership skills, including problem solving, conflict resolution and decision-making.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Skill in activity planning and execution
• Financial management experience.
• Written and spoken fluency in English and Chichewa
• Skills and experience in facilitating trainings at all levels.
• High level of integrity in following and complying to project standard operating procedure.

Location: onsite C Quest Capital offices in Lilongwe Malawi.