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Independent Consultancy - Technical Planning and Coordination

Global Energy Monitor
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote · Europe
Experience
Senior · 8+ years

Job description

Independent consultancy serving as Technical Coordinator for the Open Energy Research and Analytics Consortium (ORA), facilitating and project managing the technical planning of a shared open energy data infrastructure across five member organizations during a 12-month foundational phase.

At a glance

Employment
Contract · Independent contractor
Work mode
Remote · Europe
Languages
English – fluent
Pay
USD 135,000 / year
Apply before
November 11, 2026

What you'll do

  • Facilitate the planning process with all five ORA members, preparing agendas and materials, guiding discussions, building consensus, and documenting decisions and next steps
  • Interview the data leads at each member organization to assess data assets, systems, workflows, and priority user needs
  • Facilitate a shared definition of the platform's priority users and the access patterns, tools, and guarantees each needs
  • Lead members through review of, and decisions on, proposed shared protocols, architecture options, and data hub scope
  • Develop and manage an integrated workplan for the foundational phase, with milestones, dependencies, and responsibilities across the five member organizations
  • Track progress, risks, decisions, and action items
  • Coordinate with the ORA Secretariat on communication with members and ORA leads
  • Coordinate with GEM on the data hub proof of concept, defining its requirements with the members
  • Develop a centralized map of the datasets, scrapers, and in-house data held across the five members, and identify gaps and opportunities for greater interoperability
  • Develop proposed common schemas, identifiers, and metadata documentation, including a framework for a jointly governed identifier crosswalk
  • Guide the members to develop shared approaches to automated validation and open, machine-readable documentation
  • Analyze and recommend a design for the data platform (hosted, federated, or hybrid), ensuring datasets are clearly versioned and provenance is traced to primary sources
  • Work with GEM's Chief Data Officer on a strategy for presenting the consortium's trusted datasets to AI systems and a structured learning exchange on AI-assisted research methods
  • Scope and define requirements for a limited proof of concept and assess the prototype built by data engineering contractors under GEM's direction
  • Co-author the consortium plan with the five members and prepare an implementation-ready technical and governance roadmap for the next phase
  • Produce deliverables including inception report and integrated work plan, assessment report, cross-member data map and gap analysis, agreed priority audiences and use cases, draft shared approaches to metadata/identifiers/validation/documentation, options paper on platform architecture, architecture recommendation and draft shared data protocols, proof of concept requirements, final consortium pla

What we're looking for

  • A minimum of 8 years of working experience in data architecture, data management, or data product development, preferably in climate and energy data
  • Demonstrated experience facilitating and managing technical projects or working groups across multiple organizations in English

Nice to have

  • Strong facilitation skills and experience building consensus among organizations with different practices and priorities
  • Demonstrated experience designing or implementing data integration and interoperability, such as common schemas, identifiers or entity resolution, metadata standards, and data documentation
  • Knowledge of the open energy data ecosystem, including open datasets, open-source energy modeling tools, and reproducible data pipelines
  • Experience with platform architecture choices (hosted, federated, and hybrid), versioned data releases, and APIs
  • Understanding of how AI systems consume data, including machine-readable metadata, APIs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers
  • Experience working with open-source, open-data, digital public goods, research, or mission-driven organizations, including governance, licensing, and data stewardship
  • Based in Europe, to support time zone overlap with consortium members

Your team

Open Energy Research and Analytics Consortium (ORA) Secretariat

A shared governance structure and Secretariat currently housed at GEM, working to build an open energy intelligence system based on trusted data, open-source tools, and collaborative analysis.

How to get hired

  1. 1Submit CV and cover letter through GEM's Careers Page
  2. 2Provide one or two examples of relevant work
  3. 3Provide proposed hourly or daily rate in US dollars
  4. 4References may be requested from shortlisted candidates
  5. 5Evaluation committee evaluates applications based on preferred skills and experience and availability
  6. 6GEM may request clarification, conduct interviews with shortlisted candidates, negotiate final scope and terms, or decline to make an award

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About Global Energy Monitor

Key facts

  • Current host of the ORA Consortium and contracting party for this consultancy
  • GEM's Chief Data Officer is the primary technical and contract contact
  • GEM will manage the build of the data hub proof of concept

Partners & customers

Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)EmberOpen Energy Transition (OET)TransitionZero