The African Climate Foundation

Manager

• Lead implementation and periodic review of ACF's South Africa Strategy
• Translate strategy into actionable, budgeted implementation plans with measurable outcomes
• Coordinate with thematic leads to ensure coherence, integration, and cross-programme learning
• Ensure effective use of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning frameworks across the country programme, grants, and projects
• Build and manage strategic relationships with government institutions, civil society, community organisations, research institutions, labour unions, and the private sector
• Represent ACF on high-level platforms, policy forums, and multi-stakeholder dialogues in South Africa and globally
• Support South Africa's engagement in international climate diplomacy, multilateral forums, and bilateral partnerships
• Foster knowledge-sharing, South-South partnerships, and exchanges with Global South counterparts
• Set grant-making priorities and guide grant design, review, and implementation
• Work with the Grants team on quality control and compliance across the grant portfolio
• Support fiscally hosted entities and incubated initiatives in South Africa
• Support fundraising, identify funding opportunities, contribute to donor proposals, and engage donors
• Ensure timely, high-quality reporting to donors and internal governance bodies
• Supervise and provide strategic guidance to the South Africa Programme team
• Mentor team members and contribute to professional development
• Coordinate across Programme, MEL, Grants, Finance, and Communications teams
• Foster a high-performance, collaborative, inclusive, and equitable team culture
• Oversee research and analysis on climate and development in South Africa
• Position ACF as a trusted thought leader through advocacy and communications
• Advise the Senior Management Team on in-country developments, risks, and opportunities
• Undertake other relevant responsibilities as required by the Head of Programmes or Senior Management Team

Country Manager

Analyst

• Engage stakeholders on data sources and ACT reporting content, quality, and frequency
• Align reporting content and cycles with ACT and MJET delivery execution plans
• Track performance against delivery plans
• Align reporting content and production cycles with governance committee mandates and calendars
• Establish data collation, analysis, and report compilation systems with implementing agencies
• Establish appropriate digital tools for efficient and accurate data and report collation
• Establish and maintain the ACT reporting repository
• Ensure quality control over ACT reporting
• Prepare accurate and timely ACT reports for governance committees
• Provide data to the JET PMU Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning team and Communications team
• Contribute data, reports, and analysis to annual ACT Progress Reports published on the JET website
• Work within a mandate delegated by the Manager: ACT Governance and collaborate with the ACT Programme Manager and Programme Manager: MJET

Analyst, ACT Reporting – JET PMU

Risk

• Engage stakeholders in establishing ACT governance structures
• Align governance systems with the requirements of implementing agencies, funders, and ACT programme management
• Prepare the Mandates for the ACT Programme Governance Committee and MJET Governance Committee
• Prepare Terms of Reference for required governance sub-committees
• Develop the ACT Programme Code of Ethics
• Develop the Conflict-of-Interest Policy and declarations procedure
• Establish the ACT Governance Annual Calendar
• Investigate and operationalise an online governance portal
• Prepare committee agendas, packs, minutes, and matters arising
• Work with programme managers and the Analyst: ACT Reporting on committee administration
• Arrange preparatory briefings for Chairpersons
• Establish and maintain an ACT stakeholder database
• Assist programme managers with stakeholder engagements across government, funders, communities, civil society, companies, and business associations
• Manage the Analyst: ACT Reporting to ensure reporting systems and standards meet funder requirements and ACT governance mandates
• Train governance members on mandates, governance duties, and use of the online portal
• Commission annual ACT Progress Reports for publication on the JET PMU website
• Work under the direction of the JET PMU Programme Manager: ACT Desk
• Line-manage the Analyst: ACT Reporting

Manager – ACT Governance

Program Manager

• Define MJET scope, goals, schedules, success criteria, implementing agents, funding, funding-flow arrangements, and monitoring framework
• Establish MJET programme governance and ensure consistency across multiple implementing agents
• Prepare and operationalise the MJET delivery execution plan and its sub-components
• Manage dependencies, risks, and resourcing conflicts
• Monitor performance and oversee benefits realisation
• Undertake quality assurance at defined programme milestones
• Ensure active participation of community organisations in affected areas in determining local priorities and shaping MJET investments
• Lead stakeholder engagement across government, funders, community structures, civil society organisations, companies, and business associations
• Facilitate stakeholder collaboration and problem-solve issues as they arise
• Prepare and present programme performance reports to MJET and ACT governance structures and funders
• Manage public communications on MJET progress
• Report to the MJET Governance Committee and ACT Programme Governance Committee
• Work under the direction of the JET PMU Manager: Operations while seconded to the JET PMU

Programme Manager – Mpumalanga Jobs and Energy Transition, JET PMU

Data Engineer

• Lead the technical design, development and iterative improvement of the online data platform and visualisation tools
• Translate user needs into a prioritised product roadmap, prototypes, specifications and tested releases
• Work with Ember to adapt or integrate relevant platform components while building independent ACF-AEF capability
• Design for accessibility, low-bandwidth use, maintainability, multilingual expansion and responsible open access
• Implement analytics, usage monitoring and user-feedback processes
• Design scalable data ingestion, transformation, storage, metadata, versioning and publishing pipelines
• Integrate structured and unstructured data from public, partner and internal sources using APIs, automated workflows and documented manual processes
• Collaborate with the Junior Data Scientist on validation, provenance, reproducibility, access control and release standards
• Maintain technical documentation, source-code repositories, testing processes, backups and business-continuity arrangements
• Identify, prototype and deploy AI applications for data discovery, extraction, classification, cleaning, summarisation, visualisation, research and internal knowledge management
• Develop retrieval, search and assisted-analysis tools connecting users to trusted ACF-AEF data and evidence
• Evaluate build-versus-buy choices and select appropriate open-source or commercial tools
• Create human-in-the-loop evaluation processes addressing hallucination, bias, confidentiality, intellectual-property and security risks
• Monitor AI developments and provide briefings, demonstrations and guidance to ACF and AEF teams
• Work with analysts, programme teams, communications colleagues and external users to understand workflows and adoption barriers
• Provide training, templates and technical support for safe and effective use of AI and data tools
• Manage technical vendors and contributors and conduct code and security reviews where necessary
• Report to the Project Director

AI and Data Platforms Lead – 1 year contract

Data Scientist

• Search for and catalogue relevant public, academic, commercial and partner datasets across African countries and regions
• Download, request, extract or transcribe data from spreadsheets, reports, APIs, databases and other source formats
• Maintain a clear source register, data inventory and schedule for updates
• Follow up with institutions and partners to clarify definitions, obtain missing information and document permissions
• Clean, standardise, merge and restructure datasets using repeatable scripts and documented procedures
• Reconcile country names, units, currencies, dates, technology classifications and other coding systems
• Identify duplicates, gaps, implausible values and inconsistencies and escalate unresolved issues
• Prepare data for publication, visualisation and analysis while preserving raw source files and audit trails
• Update metadata, data dictionaries, change logs and quality-control records
• Produce descriptive statistics, tables, charts and maps under the guidance of the Senior Data Scientist
• Conduct literature and source reviews to provide context for quantitative findings
• Replicate published calculations and check figures, labels, notes and citations before release
• Support country profiles, comparative dashboards, data stories and strategic-analysis assignments
• Upload and test datasets and content on the platform and report user or data issues
• Help maintain shared repositories, templates and documentation
• Participate in training, peer review, team planning and engagement with the wider African data community
• Use AI-assisted tools where appropriate, checking outputs against original sources and following unit protocols

Country Manager

Analyst, ACT Reporting – JET PMU

Manager – ACT Governance

Programme Manager – Mpumalanga Jobs and Energy Transition, JET PMU

AI and Data Platforms Lead – 1 year contract

Junior Data Scientist, 1 year contract