This position is a limited-term position for ten months located in Vietnam.
Summary:
World Resources Institute (WRI) intends to award a consultant a ten-month reimbursable contract for supporting WRI Global, and HSBC Vietnam to support financial sector stakeholders in Vietnam, including bank and bankers’ associations, in identifying and developing investment opportunities for industrial clean energy solutions.
Program Overview:
In pursuing a transition to clean energy for large-scale energy consumers, WRI works with businesses to advance decarbonization in their operational and supply chains, accelerating a just transition toward net zero emissions while balancing the need for economic development. By doing so, we aim to increase Southeast Asian industries’ competitiveness through stronger standards and climate mitigation/adaptation measures that significantly contribute to regional emissions reduction. WRI believes that sustainable development requires integrated approaches to achieving interlinked economic, social and environmental goals.
The Climate Solutions Partnership is a multi-year collaboration among HSBC, WRI, and local partners to support energy transition plans in several countries, including Vietnam. Through this project, we provide technical assistance to businesses in planning and implementing their decarbonization journeys, provide policy analysis and recommendations to key ministries, and work together with utilities to develop efficient and sustainable electricity products accessible to businesses. As an important part of our technical assistance, we identify and facilitate financing opportunities for clean energy solutions in industrial facilities. This includes quantifying the demand for clean energy in selected industrial sectors and/or industrial parks, carrying out technology and financial solutions gap assessments and matchmaking, and increasing the capacity of the financial institutions in Vietnam to invest in industrial clean energy solutions.
Scope of Work (SoW):
- Lead compilation of financial data related to clean energy solutions to be deployed in target industrial parks in Vietnam.
- Obtain financial (Capex, Opex, and other country-specific financial metrics) data for a suite of clean energy solutions from credible and up-to-date primary and secondary sources.
- Assess financial viability and overall project feasibility of proposed clean energy solutions.
- Recommend practical and implementable solutions and/or recommendations to strengthen the financial viability of proposed clean energy solutions.
- Facilitate the planning and organization of financial sector stakeholder consultations in Vietnam to explore investment opportunities, financial instruments, and innovative business models for industrial clean energy investment, as agreed jointly with the WRI team and partners.
- Act as a local liaison to reach out and engage with the local financial sector and other stakeholders to identify key participants in the stakeholder consultation meetings.
- Plan and help host stakeholder consultation meetings (in person or virtual) with local and international financial institutions, government and utility officials, technology manufacturers and suppliers, renewable energy developers, and private investors.
- Prepare findings from the consultation meetings in formats specified by the WRI team. Incorporate feedback from WRI, HSBC, and the Project Advisory Committee into the final version of the findings.
- Draft the Report “Findings from Consultations on Industrial Clean Energy Investment Opportunities.”
- Facilitate engagement with Vietnamese policymakers and Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) partners to share project findings.
- Work with WRI project and communications staff to prepare project materials to share in JETP and other high-level meetings and to communicate the project results to policymakers.
- Organize meetings and presentations to share project findings with decision-makers in collaboration with JETP processes, the Asia Clean Energy Coalition (ACEC), and the Clean Energy Demand Initiative (CEDI).
- Provide logistical and planning support for activities to share the final report with key policymakers and stakeholders.
- Support WRI’s communication and engagement activities to share the project findings.
Deliverables and Terms and Payment:
The consultant will receive compensation based on deliverables submitted throughout the project period (deliverable-based) with deliverables, timeline, and terms of payment detail as follows:
Deliverables
Outputs
Time Frame
(Deadline)
Payment (gross)
SoW Items 1
- Provide detailed comments, analytical support, and suggestions to improve the team’s existing financial models and analyses for clean energy technologies
Commented and improved model(s)
Apr 2024
20%
- Draft a brief report or annotated presentation on viability and feasibility assessment and recommendation for potential commercial undertaking of select clean energy technologies (for internal project purposes only)
A brief report or annotated presentation
SoW Items 2
- Reach out and engage with key local financial sector stakeholders to secure meetings with at least 8 in-person key informant meetings with target banks in Vietnam to prepare for the Financial Sector Stakeholder Consultations
Closed door meetings
July 2024
40%
- Facilitate at least 2 Financial Sector Stakeholder Consultation meetings with financial institutions, including MDBs
Consultation meetings
- Draft a brief report on findings from the key meetings with target banks and the Financial Sector Stakeholder Consultation meetings with financial institutions in Vietnam
Brief report
- Facilitate potential transactions or actions to enable transactions.
Meeting
November 2024
20%
- Draft a brief report and PPT deck on lessons learned and recommendations from clean energy solution transactions or catalyzing factors to enable the transactions.
Brief report; PPT
SoW Items 3
- Participate in at least 2 meetings with policymakers, JETP partners, and other stakeholders to advocate the lessons learned and recommendations from clean energy solution transactions or catalyzing factors to enable the transactions.
Participation in Workshops or meetings
December 2024
20%
Consultant Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in business, finance, international development, or relevant field required, with good working knowledge of investment in industrial clean energy solutions;
- The ideal candidate for this role should have extensive relationships within the financial and banking sector in Vietnam and be able to leverage these connections to build strategic engagement and partnerships.
- Excellent analytical skills, with comfort and speed in financial modeling and/or financial