Program Associate, Energy Access and Livelihoods.

Customized Energy Solutions (CES), a privately-held company, is a leading service provider of market intelligence and operational support services to companies participating in the retail and wholesale electric and natural gas markets. Utilizing deep know-how developed since the inception of the deregulated energy markets, CES provides accurate & timely analysis on regulatory changes, market opportunities, and operational efficiencies for electricity and natural gas commodities. Join a rapidly growing company in an exciting and dynamic work environment. As one of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the Philadelphia region, Customized Energy Solutions offers an opportunity for significant professional growth.

Customized Energy Solutions Ltd. has been recognized regionally and nationally for its impressive and sustained growth, including INC. 500 | 5000 and The Philadelphia Business Journal as a Top 100 Companies in Philadelphia, Hall of Fame for five or more consecutive years. It was ranked as one of the “Best Places to Work” by the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Our team of associates at CES is highly motivated, innovative, and passionate about providing excellent Services to our clients. We look for individuals interested in growing with our company, and working in an exciting, open and collegial work environment. Our main office is in Philadelphia, with satellite offices in various U.S. states, Canada, Japan, India and Vietnam.

Customized Energy Solutions Foundation (CES Foundation) is the not-for-profit arm of Customized Energy Solutions (CES), committed to fostering sustainable and inclusive rural economic development through clean energy solutions.

Building on CES’s two decades of expertise in energy markets, storage, and policy — including the creation of the India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) — the Foundation focuses on leveraging Decentralized Renewable Energy (DRE) to drive livelihood generation, entrepreneurship, and community resilience.

Under its flagship initiative CAREs (Customized Applications for Rural Economies), CES Foundation works with tribal and rural communities to integrate microgrids with productive end-use applications, enabling clean-powered enterprises in agriculture, food processing, and other rural sectors.

Guided by its 3I philosophy – Innovate, Integrate, Include, CES Foundation designs and implements technical, social, and financial solutions that ensure holistic development — fostering self-reliant, prosperous, and sustainable rural economies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding rural landscape of Mizoram and work with stakeholders for need assessment, deployment, and demonstration of livelihoods solutions.
• Mapping, Development, and deployment of emerging technologies for enhancing rural economic development.
• Exploring market linkages/channels for efficient delivery of goods and services related to agricultural goods, food processing, irrigation, textile and other livelihoods.
• Work closely with the vendors / suppliers to develop mechanisms for post-installation operations, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Providing field-level coordination for the technology solution implementation of pilot projects designed under the various programs in Northeast.
• Coordinating with training institutes, science departments and other govt. agencies in Mizoram to organize and facilitate technology training programs for end users, community members and other relevant stakeholders.
• Identifying and developing success stories under the programs as case studies for wider dissemination of DRE (Decentralized Renewable Energy) driven technology in Northeast.
• Planning and executing the training programmes and help them in capacity building for enhancing income generation for end users in Northeast.
• Manage Local women entrepreneurs and help them in budling their capacity for enhancing their income generation.
• Develop and implement a robust monitoring and evaluation system that will ensure tracking of project/ programme results at different levels (outputs, outcomes and impact)
• Develop the M&E Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Incorporate programmatic/ operational team feedback to ensure the continuous improvement of data management systems.
• Exploring financial inclusion with local bank and microfinance.
• Lead the on-going development of an monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) system and tools to enable all program teams to be able to collect, aggregate and support analysis of data seamlessly, in order to meet all relevant reporting requirements.

• Minimum of 3-5 year of work experience in the Renewable Energy sector or in the development sector, Engineering -Technical and Technology background is preferred.
• Based out of Northeast or experience working in Northeast with good understanding about grassroots communities, languages, livelihood practices etc. will be preferred.
• Interest in solar energy DRE driven technologies and project implementations aimed at improving energy reliability and quality of life for underserved communities.
• Very good communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Willingness to learn, grow and develop at personal and professional front, at a rapid pace with a steep learning curve.
• Willing to travel extensively on sites for 15 days in a month when required.
• The candidate should be able to understand and analyse ongoing and past work in Economic Development initiative at CES including priority areas, key projects/programmes/ work themes.
• The individual should be able to gauge the external communication landscape of other organizations & influencers, in the energy access, Minigrids, livelihood, SDGs and allied workspaces.

Interested candidates are requested to share their updated resume to:
Email: rupesh.badkhal@ces-foundation.org
Contact: +91 8600549632

Customized Energy Solutions provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.