Sun to Sea Manager, Indonesia

About this role

The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (Global Energy Alliance) The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (Global Energy Alliance) works for a world where everyone has access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity and the means to use it to improve their lives. Our Alliance builds transformative public, private, philanthropic partnerships to end energy poverty and accelerate green economic opportunity. Founded in 2021 by The Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA Foundation, and Bezos Earth Fund, we design innovative projects/programs, unlock finance, strengthen institutions and transform markets, delivering progress anchored in deep community engagement. By uniting actors across the value chain, from households to heads of state, we go beyond individual projects to drive lasting systems change. With work in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, our Alliance aims to reach 1 billion people with clean electricity, prevent 4 billion tons of carbon emissions and create or improve 150 million jobs.

About Sun to Sea

Sun to Sea is a place-based alliance and investment program that connects clean energy, ecosystem restoration, and coastal livelihoods into an integrated, investable model for Indonesia's coastal fishing communities. It builds tailored coalitions around each community's economic potential and conservation value, then deploys four reinforcing interventions: clean energy, diversified livelihoods, ecosystem preservation and restoration, and community resilience.

The program is designed to support and connect Indonesia's two presidential-priority national programs — the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries' Red & White Fishing Villages initiative (Kampung Nelayan Merah Putih) and the 100GW Solarization initiative — at the community level, where the connective tissue between them is currently missing.

Sun to Sea is led by the Global Energy Alliance, which brings energy-technology expertise and alliance-building capability, in partnership with Konservasi Indonesia, the Asian Development Bank and other organizations.

The Role

The Sun to Sea Manager is the senior technical and managerial lead responsible for delivering the Validation Phase: the design, deployment, and proof of the integrated model across 20 pilot sites in Maluku and Eastern Indonesia over an estimated two-year period. The role exists to turn the Sun to Sea concept into operating sites — proving the cost, revenue, and ecological assumptions that unlock the program's path to replication and national scale.

This is a hands-on leadership role that combines four demands rarely found in one person:

• Cross-disciplinary technical command: Sufficient depth across energy, cold chain, fisheries and livelihoods, marine ecosystem restoration, blue carbon, and community development to integrate them into a coherent site model and to credibly direct specialists in each.

• Government engagement: The relationships, credibility, and fluency to align pilots with Indonesian national and provincial agencies and to position the program for government ownership at scale.

• Team leadership: The ability to lead, integrate, and get the best from a diverse team of international and national consultants.

• Delivery discipline: The program management to take 20 sites from selection to operation on time and on budget, while generating the evidence base that the next phase depends on.

Scope of the Assignment

The Sun to Sea Manager will be accountable for:

• Leading final site selection and pre-feasibility across candidate communities, applying the program's four screening criteria (economic opportunity, conservation significance, energy need, existing partner activity), in collaboration with KI's community screening work and other partners, as identified.

• Designing the integrated intervention package for each of the pilot sites — clean energy, cold chain, livelihood value chains, ecosystem restoration, and community resilience — tailored to local conditions.

• Overseeing deployment, commissioning, and early operation of site infrastructure and activities, including solar-battery systems, cold-chain equipment (e.g., solar ice makers, cold storage), and restoration interventions.

• Building and managing the local alliance at each site — convening government, conservation, development, private-sector, and community partners around a shared site plan.

• Capturing and validating the model's cost, revenue, and ecological assumptions, and producing the evidence and documentation that supports financing and replication.

• Managing the program budget, workplan, risks, and reporting across the full portfolio of pilots.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical leadership across program components

• Provide integrated technical direction across all five intervention areas, ensuring interventions reinforce rather than…