Executive Director
Energy Transition Union of Armenia

The Moment

Armenia's energy future is being decided right now. The Metsamor NPP decommissioning roadmap, the EU–Armenia Partnership Agenda signed at the May 2026 Summit, the €2.5 bn Global Gateway investment envelope, and the country's declared 2030/2040 targets — in solar, storage, electrification, and grid modernization — together create a once-in-a-generation window of opportunity.

Realizing it requires more than ambition. It requires the technical depth, financial capacity, and institutional coordination of the companies that will deliver it.

The Organisation

The Energy Transition Union of Armenia (ETUA) is the industry-led platform created to provide that coordination. Founded in April 2026 by Armenia's leading energy companies, ETUA brings together industry, government, financial institutions, and international partners around a shared roadmap for a secure, competitive, low-carbon energy system.

ETUA is positioned as the natural industry counterpart to the energy strand of the EU–Armenia Partnership and the High-Level Dialogue on Connectivity launched alongside it.

The Role

The Executive Director leads ETUA's strategic positioning, public voice, and operational delivery. This is a founder-tier appointment: the person who takes this role will shape ETUA's character, agenda, and weight in Armenia's energy debate for the next decade.

We are not looking for a secretariat manager. We are looking for an industry leader.

The Executive Director will:

• Define and drive ETUA's strategic agenda across the 14 thematic pillars — from solar and storage to grid, market reform, electrification, regional integration, and the digital-energy nexus.
• Represent the industry's position constructively, independently, and on an evidence base — in front of government, parliament, regulator (PSRC), media, and international partners — including where policy proposals require technical or commercial challenge.
• Work toward ETUA's recognition as a credible private-sector counterpart in relevant EU–Armenia, IFI, and regional energy discussions, and pursue formal positioning within European energy bodies and regional cooperation frameworks.
• Originate and curate ETUA's project pipeline under the EU Call for Expressions of Interest and other Global Gateway instruments, working with the EU Delegation, EBRD Yerevan, EIB, ADB, and other counterparts.
• Convene the inaugural Yerevan Regional Energy Forum (autumn 2027) as ETUA's flagship industry event, with ministerial participation from at least three regional governments.
• Develop technically rigorous, evidence-based policy briefs and position papers that support constructive dialogue with government and regulators on the priority pillars.
• Coordinate with technical partners — HVEN, R2E2, ENA, the National Polytechnic University, AUA Acopian Center, and the STREACS consortium — to ensure ETUA outputs carry technical credibility.
• Manage ETUA's governance, membership, secretariat, finances, and reporting to the Steering Board and General Assembly. Build the funding base required to sustain the institution.

First 12-Month Priorities

• Establish ETUA's governance, committees, membership model, and internal operating rhythm.
• Prepare ETUA's first national energy-transition policy agenda.
• Build formal working relationships with the Ministry, PSRC, ENA, banks, IFIs, EU Delegation, and technical institutions.
• Launch 3–5 priority working groups — for example solar / net billing, storage, grid integration, C&I energy, and financing.
• Produce at least three high-quality policy briefs.
• Organize ETUA's first public industry event or roundtable.
• Build the annual budget and funding base.

Required Profile

The successful candidate will combine three qualities. We are unlikely to find all three in maximum measure; we expect the strongest profiles to combine deep strength in one, solid command of the second, and credible capability in the third.

Additional requirements:

• Fluent Armenian and English; Russian valuable; another regional language a plus.
• High integrity, independence of judgement, ability to disagree publicly when needed.
• Comfort representing the industry at ministerial level.
• Ability to act as a neutral and trusted representative of the wider industry, while managing potential conflicts of interest transparently.
• Experience in fundraising, donor relations, sponsorships, grant applications, or institutional budget development is a strong advantage.
• Interest in building ETUA over a multi-year institutional horizon.

What We Offer

• A founder-tier mandate to shape one of Armenia's most consequential industry institutions at the moment it matters most.
• Direct access to and partnership with the leadership of Armenia's leading energy companies, government, regulators, and major IFIs.
• Substantial autonomy within a clear strategic framework set by the founders.