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APPLICATION FORM

Director, Energy

Millennium Foundation Kosovo

Guidance Notes on completing the Structured Application Form

These notes will help you to complete the application form to the best of your ability and gain an understanding of what you can expect from this process.

The application form consists of two main parts:

Part A: Personal Details and Career History

Part B: Statement of Suitability and Evidence against the Director, Energy role.

The evidence you provide in your application form will be used in the shortlisting process to decide whether you will proceed to the next stage. Please complete the form accurately and include all the requested information. If you do not complete the form fully, it may be rejected on the basis of lack of evidence. CVs are not accepted.

The working language of the Millennium Foundation Kosovo is English, therefore you are required to complete the application form in English.

Part A: Personal Details and Career History

1.PERSONAL DETAILS

Surname: / Telephone number (Home):
Forenames: / Telephone number (Mobile):
Postal Address: / E-mail Address:
Postcode: / Nationality:

2. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Current Employment

Please give details of your present or most recent employment:

Name and Address of Employer and Nature of Business: / Dates of employment
From:
To: / Job Title
Key purpose of role/
Key responsibilities and accountabilities / Reporting to
(i.e. the organisational level to which your role reports) / Salary

Past Employment and Career History

Name and Address of Employer and Nature of Business: / Dates of employment
From:
To: / Job Title
Key purpose of role/
Key responsibilities and accountabilities / Reporting to
(i.e. the organisational level to which your role reported) / Salary

3. EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

  • You should refer to the position description for this role and ensure that you provide evidence that you meet the minimum requirements for this position - namelyanadvanced degree (Master’s degree, its equivalent, or higher is preferred) in Business Management, Engineering, or other relevant field of study, with Project Management Professional certification (PMP) also being considered;

Degree field and institution where studied / Level of study
Dates (studied from/to) / Result and date of award
  • Professional Qualifications/Occupational Training/Membership of Professional Societies.

Professional or other qualifications, membership of professional societies and date admitted, where relevant / Details of publications, presentations at international conferences (etc.) relevant to the Director Energy role
Details of other specialist training/courses attended relevant to the Director Energy role.

LANGUAGES

Level IV (Fluent) of English-language speaking and written capability is required. Please delete as appropriate to self-declare your ability to meet this standard:

English Level IV SpeakingYes / No

English Level IV Reading/WritingYes / No

Level IV (Fluent) of Albanian speaking/reading capability is required. Please delete as appropriate to self-declare your ability to meet this standard:

Albanian Level IV SpeakingYes / No

Albanian Level IV Reading/WritingYes / No

Please state any other languages that you can speak and/or understand and the level of this capability

Level 1 –
Basic/beginner / Level 2 –Threshold/ intermediate / Level 3 –
Operational / Level 4 –
Fluent
Language (please state)– spoken
Language (please state)– written
Language (please state)– spoken
Language (please state) - written

Part B Statement of Suitability and Evidence against the Director, Energy Position Description

  1. Statement of Suitability (word limit 500)

This is your opportunity to tell us why you are suitable for the post.

Tell us how you think you can deliver the demanding requirements of this particular job. Ensure you structure your supporting statement clearly and coherently, referencing how your skills and experience will help you to do this. In assessing your evidence we will disregard words in excess of 500. Using the ‘word count’ function, please total the number of words in your statement and add this in brackets at the end.

CVs will not be accepted in lieu of this statement.

  1. Competency Based Evidence

Listed on the following pages are the essential and desirable criteria from the Position Description (please refer to the Candidate Information Pack for the full text of this document). For each of the criteria you are asked to offer an example of how you believe you meet this from recent or past work experience. The example(s) you choose to describe will form the basis of your answers. The examples you give can be taken from any aspect of your life, for example: your work, your job seeking experiences, your family or home responsibilities, your leisure activities or voluntary work. However, recent work examples tend to be the strongest indicator of your abilities, so we recommend that you use these where possible.

Against each of the essential and desirable criteria, please give examples that best illustrate how you meet these requirements and describe what makes you and your experience suitable for this post.

  • Be clear about how the example is relevant to the requirements of the role you are applying for in terms of complexity, responsibility and level.
  • Describe what you did and the part you played in the activities you describe.
  • Specify the outcome(s) or result(s) of your actions

You are restricted to a maximum of 350 words per Criterion. Any words over and above this will be disregarded. As with the Statement of Suitability, please total the words in each section and add these in brackets at the end of each paragraph.

Each statement should cover how your experience meets the criterion, and should include specific examples from their past experience which exemplify this. You may find the STAR model, explained below, helpful in structuring your thinking and describing eachexample.

Specific – give a specific example

Task - briefly describe the task/objective etc.

Action – tell us what action you took

Results – describe what results were achieved

Ensure that the information you give is well organised and relevant. Write in a positive way e.g. ‘I was responsible for ..’ or ‘I organised …’ Remember we are interested only in what you did and achieved personally, not the work and achievements of the group or organisation in which you worked.

a)Minimum of eight (8) years of professional experiencein a related field (district heating and cooling, energy efficiency, energy services, power utilities, energy sector regulation and governance, power generation), including five (5) years of demonstrated experience managing teams and/or overseeing projects (Essential).
b)Experience working on projects funded by international organizations(Essential).
c)Knowledge of Kosovo’s energy sector laws, regulations, policies, etc.(Essential).
d)Familiarity with international trends in the development and deployment of district heating and energy efficiency technologies as well as in private sector participation in the power and sectors (Essential).
e)Familiarity with development, construction, and operations of infrastructure projects (Essential).
f)Ability to interact constructively and strategically with leaders, acting as consultants, technical and construction experts, government and regulatory officials, energy and power utility professionals, customers of energy services, and civil society(Essential).
g)Demonstrated experience as a leader and in consensus building, with a strong capability to multi-task and manage multiple work streams simultaneously(Essential).
h)Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural local and international stakeholders and counterparts(Essential).
i)Demonstrated history of managing and delivering high quality projects on time and within budget, including experience developing, monitoring and updating relevant project management tools (schedules, budgets, scoping documents, risk management plans);(Essential).
j)Demonstrated strong supervisory and mentoring skills (Essential).
k)Experience in all phases of procurements and contract management (Desirable).
l)Experience with change management and achieving behavior change, especially utilizing data and information to promote change(Desirable).

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Please list below any special requirements or reasonable adjustments if you are disabled that you may have if you are shortlisted for this role.

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DECLARATIONS

I declare that this application form has been completed by me and that the information I have given is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. I understand that if I have given any information that I know is false, or if I withhold any relevant information it may lead to my application being rejected, or if appointed, to my dismissal. Please check the box to confirm this declaration if you are submitting this application electronically, or sign below if submitting your application by hand.

Signed (if submitting the application by hand)
Date
I declare that I am not currently under investigation or convicted for criminal acts. (please check the box to confirm).
Please note that at this stage we do not require you to submit a current certificate to prove this, but if invited to interview, an original or certified copy will be required for inspection.

Signed (if submitting the application by hand)
Date

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