Associate Director - Natural Gas & Fuels

About the role

Lead program management support for the MNRE PMU under NGHM, including work planning, coordination, progress tracking, stakeholder engagement, and quality delivery. Provide strategic insights to MNRE on hydrogen market development, industry trends, project implementation models, and emerging opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market research, gather industry inputs, and prepare concise notes, reports, presentations, and decision-support material.
• Provide technical inputs for hydrogen production, handling, storage, transportation, safety, utilization, and project/program formulation.
• Support design and review of contract frameworks, commercial structures, procurement approaches, bidding guidelines, and implementation mechanisms.
• Analyse trade, taxation, customs, incentives, regulatory provisions, and policy issues relevant to hydrogen and low-carbon fuels.
• Facilitate consultations with ministries, regulators, industry players, technology providers, developers, investors, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

• More than 15 years of relevant experience in industry, consulting, project implementation, energy, hydrogen, infrastructure, policy, regulation, or related fields.
• Direct industry experience and strong knowledge of hydrogen production, handling, storage, transportation, safety, and utilization is essential.
• Experience in project implementation, contract structuring, procurement, bidding processes, trade, taxation, customs, incentives, and regulatory matters.
• Strong understanding of hydrogen, low-carbon fuels, energy transition, market structures, commercial drivers, and policy implementation issues.
• Master’s degree in engineering, energy, economics, public policy, management, or MBA from a reputed institution.
• Willingness to work from the MNRE location and travel for meetings, consultations, workshops, site visits, and project requirements.

Skills

• Strong program management, stakeholder management, analytical, communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to prepare high-quality market research reports, industry insight notes, proposals, workplans, dashboards, bidding documents, contract frameworks, and executive-level presentations.
• Ability to interpret technical, commercial, financial, regulatory, trade, and taxation information and convert it into actionable recommendations.