Background
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine, through its Energy and Environment Portfolio, supports national and local authorities in restoring and transforming Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in line with the principles of sustainability, resilience, and transparency. Since the onset of the full-scale war, UNDP has prioritized assistance to ensure continuity of essential services and accelerate the green recovery of Ukraine’s public infrastructure.
Within this framework, UNDP is implementing the Technical Assistance to the Renewable Energy Solutions (RES) Programme, financed through the IKI Renewable Energy Investment Grant under the European Investment Bank (EIB) facility. The Action is delivered under the Direct Implementation Modality (DIM) and coordinated with the Ministry for Recovery, Infrastructure and Transport of Ukraine, the EIB, and GIZ.
The project aims to support the large-scale deployment of renewable energy technologies—including solar photovoltaic systems, biomass installations, and heat pumps—in public buildings such as schools, kindergartens, hospitals, and municipal facilities. This initiative is designed to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, enhance local energy resilience, and accelerate Ukraine’s alignment with EU Green Deal objectives.
The Action specifically contributes to:
- Strengthening local institutional capacity for project design, procurement, and implementation of renewable energy sub-projects;
- Ensuring technical quality, financial accountability, and environmental compliance during sub-project delivery;
- Supporting municipalities to obtain prosumer (active electricity consumer) status through the development of the net-billing mechanism;
- Enhancing transparency and governance through anticorruption and sanctions-screening systems;
- Promoting knowledge exchange, digital monitoring, and replication of successful models across Ukrainian communities.
UNDP’s Technical Assistance (TA) component serves as the enabling pillar of the RES Programme. It bridges investment, governance, and capacity development by providing:
- Institutional support and capacity building for Final Beneficiaries (municipalities, utilities, and communal institutions);
- Technical review of documentation provided for sub-project implementation and support for incorporating applicable environmental and social requirements into procurement and contract management;
- Contract management for goods, works, and services financed under the EIB-BMWK framework;
- Oversight, monitoring, and integrity assurance through red-flag tracking, sanctions screening, and compliance reviews;
- Technical assistance for operationalizing the net-billing system and helping municipalities become self-sufficient clean-energy producers; and
- Structured knowledge and digital platforms to enable real-time data tracking, reporting, and learning.
The project forms an integral part of UNDP’s Green Energy Recovery and Decarbonization Agenda and complements related EIB-financed frameworks.
Within this context, UNDP Ukraine is recruiting a highly qualified and experienced national professional for the position of Engineering Analyst (Renewables). The position will support the implementation of the RES Programme with a specific focus on the technical review of design documentation, support to procurement processes, and monitoring of the installation and commissioning of renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions in public facilities. The Engineering Analyst (Renewables) will help ensure the quality, safety, and compliance of implemented works, contributing to energy security, continuity of public services, and infrastructure resilience under wartime and post-war recovery conditions.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the direct supervision of Project Manager and in close collaboration with Project team,Engineering Analyst (Renewables) will perform the following:
1.Ensure technical review and engineering support for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
- Review and evaluate technical project documentation, baseline information, design calculations, drawings, Bills of Quantities (BoQs) and equipment specifications for solar PV, other renewable energy and energy efficiency projects under the RES Programme, assessing their completeness, consistency and suitability for implementation.
- Review project designs for compliance with national legislation, applicable regulations, technical standards and donor requirements, and recommend corrective actions to address identified discrepancies.
- Verify sub-project budgets, cost estimates and BoQs using specialised software, such as AVK, and applicable construction cost estimation methodologies.
- Support the preparation and review of technical and contract-related documentation, including scopes of work and technical specifications, ensuring that design requirements are accurately and consistently reflected in the relevant project documentation.
- Participate in technical evaluation panels, assess bidders’ qualifications and technical proposals, including the compliance of proposed equipment and materials and the completeness and consistency of BoQs, and provide recommendations in coordination with the procurement team.
- Prepare technical clarifications in response to bidders’ questions and support the resolution of technical issues related to project documentation, design solutions, equipment, materials and implementation requirements.
- Cooperate closely with GIZ and project stakeholders to identify appropriate technical solutions and provide technical advice during project planning, design review and implementation.
- Identify and assess technical requirements, constraints and implementation risks, and recommend appropriate mitigation measures.
- Review contractors’ proposed schedules for equipment supply, installation, testing and commissioning, and provide recommendations on their feasibility and alignment with project timelines.
- Support technical monitoring of contract implementation through site visits, review of progress reports and verification of equipment and works against contractual requirements, quality and safety standards, and agreed schedules.
- Review proposed changes to designs, equipment, materials or works, assess their implications for scope, cost and timelines, and provide technical recommendations for UNDP’s consideration and approval.
- Support the technical verification of completed works and supporting documentation for acceptance and payment, including records of testing and commissioning.
2.Support in contract management, construction supervision, and commissioning of the project sites.
- Monitor and supervise the implementation of construction and installation works carried out by contractors.\Manage technical aspects of contracts with construction companies and equipment suppliers.
- Ensure that installed equipment, materials, and works comply with approved project designs, technical specifications, contractual requirements, and quality standards.
- Coordinate and maintain effective communication with contractors, author and technical supervisions, final beneficiaries, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Conduct technical monitoring missions on sites and provide supervision throughout project implementation.
- Identify and address technical issues arising during construction and installation phases.
- Monitor compliance with UNDP and EIB social and environmental standards during the project implementation.
- Support testing, commissioning, and acceptance procedures for completed renewable energy installations.
- Verify completion of works and compliance prior to project handover.
3.Provision of operational support of the RES Project, monitoring, reporting, capacity building and facilitating knowledge sharing.
- Support final beneficiaries in obtaining prosumer status and completing related administrative and technical requirements where necessary.
- Monitor and evaluate the operational performance of installed renewable energy systems.
- Assess energy generation, energy savings, and greenhouse gas emissions reductions, including CO₂ savings achieved through project interventions.
- Support the development and delivery of training activities for personnel of final beneficiaries to ensure proper operation and maintenance of installed systems.
- Collect, analyse, and document good practices, lessons learned, and project success stories.
- Contribute technical inputs to project monitoring, evaluation, and reporting requirements.
- Prepare and maintain technical records, performance data, and project documentation.
Support the dissemination of project results and knowledge-sharing activities.
- Identify, synthesize and document best practices and lessons learned that are generated from the project and implementing partners.
- The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.
Institutional Arrangement
Under the direct supervision of the Project Manager, the Engineering Analyst will provide technical support for the implementation of the RES Programme, including the review of technical documentation, support to procurement, technical monitoring of contracts, and verification of completed works. The incumbent will work closely with the project team, procurement colleagues, contractors, final beneficiaries and other relevant stakeholders in accordance with the approved project document and UNDP rules and procedures
Competencies
Core
- Achieve Results: LEVEL 1: Plans and monitors own work, pays attention to details, delivers quality work by deadline
- Think Innovatively: LEVEL 1: Open to creative ideas/known risks, is pragmatic problem solver, makes improvements
- Learn Continuously: LEVEL 1: Open minded and curious, shares knowledge, learns from mistakes, asks for feedback
- Adapt with Agility: LEVEL 1: Adapts to change, constructively handles ambiguity/uncertainty, is flexible
- Act with Determination: LEVEL 1: Shows drive and motivation, able to deliver calmly in face of adversity, confident
- Engage and Partner: LEVEL 1: Demonstrates compassion/understanding towards others, forms positive relationships
- Enable Diversity and Inclusion: LEVEL 1: Appreciate/respect differences, aware of unconscious bias, confront discrimination
Cross-Functional & Technical competencies (insert up to 7 competencies)
| Thematic Area | Name | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Business Direction and Strategy | Entrepreneurial Thinking | Identify and seize opportunities to service and add value to clients, create clarity around UNDP value proposition to beneficiaries and partners, develop clear service offers responding to client needs in line with UNDP’s organizational priorities and mandate. |
| Business Direction and Strategy | System Thinking | Ability to use objective problem analysis and judgement to understand how interrelated elements coexist within an overall process or system, and to consider how altering one element can impact on other parts of the system |
| Business Direction and Strategy | Negotiation and Influence | Reach a common understanding/agreement, persuade others, resolve points of difference through a dialogue, negotiate mutually acceptable solutions and create ‘win-win’ situations. |
| Business Management | Communication | Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience. Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate channels. |
| Business Management | Customer Satisfaction/Client Management | Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs. Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients' immediate requests. Ability to anticipate client's upcoming needs and concerns. |
| 2030 Agenda: People | Gender | Gender and Energy |
| Procurement | Supplier/relationship management | Knowledge of supplier management concepts, principles and methods, and ability to apply this to strategic and/or practical situations. |
Required Skills and Experience
Min. Education requirements
- Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in the field of Electrical Engineering, Civil and Industrial (Structural and Architectural) Engineering, Renewable Energy (preferably related to Solar Energy) or other closely related fields are required; or
- A first university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, with a combination of additional two years of qualifying relevant experience will be given due consideration in lieu of master’s degree.
Min. years of relevant work experience
- Minimum of 2 years (with master’s degree) or 4 years (with bachelor’s degree) of professional experience in implementing energy efficiency and/or renewable energy projects for public buildings and public utilities, as well as solar power station projects in the municipal sector using national financial instruments.
Experience, Knowledge, and Skills
- Experience in the preparation and review of technical documentation, including technical specifications, Bills of Quantities (BoQs) and implementation schedules for solar PV, other renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
- Experience in the procedures for quality control procedures.
Desired Criteria
- Experience in IFI-funded projects (EIB, EBRD, etc.); involving the design, supply, and installation of rooftop, ground-mounted, grid-connected, and hybrid solar power plants (PV systems) for public buildings and critical infrastructure facilities.
- Proven ability to draft, edit and produce written proposals, advisory documents, analytical documents and results-focused reports.
- Experience in the use of computers and office software packages, including engineering software.
- Proven track record of strong knowledge of the renewable and, in particular, solar energy equipment market, including modules, inverters, monitoring systems, and Balance of System (BOS) components, as well as battery energy storage systems (BESS), with a clear understanding of technical and logistical aspects of system integration.
- Experience and good understanding of Ukrainian legislation in the field of renewable energy, in particular, the regulatory framework governing the operation of solar power plants, grid connection procedures, net-billing mechanism, and energy storage system requirements.
- Experience in collaboration with local self-government bodies, municipal utilities, and communities in implementing energy efficiency and renewable energy projects.
- Practical knowledge of AVK and construction cost estimation methodologies.
Required Language(s)
Fluency in Ukrainian and English is required.
Equal opportunity
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UNDP is also committed to creating an inclusive workplace where all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, are valued, can thrive, and benefit from career opportunities that are open to all.
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