🌍 Grid Planning & Market Development Lead, Asia at Energy Tech Nonprofit (Remote | English)

Location: Fully Remote; preference for candidates based in one of our priority markets across Southeast Asia, India, Pakistan, South Korea, China, or Japan Employment Type: Full-Time employee, on an annual contract term, with option to renew Languages Required: English proficiency is mandatory Experience Required: Significant relevant experience, typically 8+ years. Relevant experience may have been gained in market development or consulting, but equally within a system operator, ministry, regulator, university or research organization. Salary Range: Market-related (by region), based on experience Reports to: Harry van der Weijde, Head of Research & Market Development Works Closely With: Charlotte Heikendorf, Marketing Lead and various other technical experts/leaders Work Travel Requirements: Monthly regional travel is expected Start Date Goal: Flexible; notice-dependent

🎯 About the Role

We are looking for a Grid Planning & Market Development Lead, Asia to accelerate the adoption of open source energy modelling across selected priority markets in Asia - improving the quality, speed and credibility of multi-billion-dollar energy infrastructure decisions**.**

Your role will be to build awareness, relationships and opportunities with the institutions that shape energy planning, including system operators, ministries, regulators, consultants, research organizations and other influential organizations.

You will combine a strong understanding of the regional energy sector with enough technical energy system modelling experience to engage credibly with experts. You should be equally comfortable discussing modelling approaches with a system planning team, exploring institutional challenges with a ministry, speaking at a major conference or turning an initial conversation into a concrete project.

You will also be OET's eyes and ears in Asia. Your understanding of what is happening across the region will help our senior leadership, market development and marketing teams decide where we should focus, how we should position ourselves and how we can communicate more effectively with different audiences.

Our current priority regionsincludeSoutheast Asia, India and Pakistan, South Korea, China and Japan. We do not expect one person to have deep experience or established networks across all of these markets. Strong networks and experience in a meaningful subset are sufficient.

You will report to OET's Head of Research & Market Development and have considerable autonomy to shape our presence in the region. You will normally own opportunities from initial engagement through to contracting, drawing on colleagues across OET and working together with the Head of Research & Market Development on particularly large or strategic opportunities.

🛠️ Your Key Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with system operators, ministries, regulators, consultants, research institutions and other organizations involved in energy planning across priority Asian markets.
• Grow awareness and understanding of open source energy modelling through direct engagement, c