# Innovation Fellow, GOTF Job GEAPP

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Company: GEAPP

Category: Sales

Location: Kenya

Work type: Full-time

Work arrangement: On-site

Published: 2026-09-24

Expires: 2026-11-08

## Job Description

Engineering Jobs, GEAPP Jobs. Innovation Fellow, GOTF analyzes clean energy tech, supports program design, and tracks project impact, requires an Energy/Tech/Business Degree and 5+ years innovation experience.

### Key Responsibilities

- Support the identification and framing of priority modernisation challenges with GOTF anchor utilities (KPLC, AEDC, ESCOM) and regional partners, translating utility priorities into targeted innovation opportunities.

- Support innovation scouting across African and international markets, including ecosystem outreach, technical due diligence, expert evaluation, and cohort selection.

- Coordinate the design and mobilisation of pilots with anchor DisCos and other partner utilities, including implementation coordination, field engagement, and user testing.

- Apply structured monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks to generate technical, operational, financial, and development evidence from pilots.

- Support the connection of validated innovators to philanthropic, blended, and commercial capital, working with venture partners, and development finance institutions.

- Coordinate ecosystem partnerships across innovation platforms, funders, regulators and industry stakeholders, including proposal development, MoU coordination, and joint workplan management.

- Contribute to knowledge products including case studies, playbooks, whitepapers, and regulatory or policy engagement materials.

- Support the day-to-day running of the Innovation workstream, including reporting to GEA leadership, coordination with the wider GOTF Africa team, and cross-linkage with adjacent programmes (BESS Consortium, IMG/DRE, M300/CDMU).

### Qualifications and Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Business, Public Policy, or a related discipline; Master’s degree an added advantage.

- At least 5 years of relevant experience in the power sector, climate innovation, utility engagement, venture support, or programme management.

- Working knowledge of grid modernisation, distributed renewable energy, battery energy storage, interconnected mini-grids, digital utility systems, and productive-use technologies.

- Experience with utility partnerships, innovation programmes, or climate-tech ecosystems; direct exposure to African markets strongly preferred.

- Track record of stakeholder engagement across utilities, regulators, technology providers, and investors.

### Key Skills

- Structured problem-solving with the ability to distil complex inputs into decision-ready materials.

- Programme and stakeholder management in multi-partner environments.

- Analytical mindset with a data-driven approach to pilot design and evaluation.

- Strong written and verbal communication, including briefing notes, concept papers, and executive-level materials.

- Comfort operating in the foundational period of a new workstream, with initiative and follow-through.

### Success Metrics (KPIs)

- Innovation cohorts identified, selected, and supported through the pathway.

- Pilots launched with GOTF anchor utilities against agreed milestones.

- Follow-on capital mobilised into validated innovators.

- Strength of ecosystem and utility partnerships activated and sustained.

- Evidence products (case studies, playbooks, whitepapers) delivered and disseminated.

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