Programme Lead - Green Hydrogen

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.