Deadline: 28-Oct-22
The Gill Owen Scholarship is offered once a year to support an individual to travel internationally to research innovative ideas and initiatives that are relevant to improving outcomes for consumers in the Australian energy market.
The Gill Owen Scholarship supports an individual to travel internationally to research innovative ideas and initiatives that will be relevant to improving outcomes for consumers in the Australian energy market. Energy Consumers Australia will work with scholarship recipients to help them identify appropriate opportunities to communicate the findings of their research, and to help identify relevant international contacts.
Purpose
- Energy Consumers Australia is directed by article 4.1 of its Constitution to
- To promote the long-term interests of Consumers of Energy with respect to the price, quality, safety, reliability and security of supply of Energy services by providing and enabling strong, coordinated, collegiate evidence-based consumer advocacy on National Energy Market matters of strategic importance or material consequence for Energy Consumers, in particular for Residential Customers and Small Business Customers.
- The purpose of Energy Consumers Australia’s Grants Program is directed by article 4.2 (e) of its Constitution to achieve the above through:
- Funding and managing grants to build knowledge and sectoral capacity supporting policy
- Development and consumer education in the National Energy Market.
- Other relevant Constitutional functions are:
- Building national and jurisdictional expertise and capacity through research, knowledge development and consultation to advance the interests of Australian Energy Consumers, in particular, residential and small business Energy Consumers
- Undertaking robust research to build knowledge, engage and influence policy development and educate Consumers in the Energy markets.
Activities
- Examples of activities that could be funded include:
- Visits to one or more countries to learn from energy consumer activities and experiences;
- Meetings with key stakeholders in selected countries;
- Research on issues or relevance to Australian energy consumers;
- Written report documenting the learnings from the research and or overseas stakeholder meetings and their potential relevance for Australia; and
- In Australia, meetings with consumer groups, energy companies, government officials to promulgate research findings and recommendations.
Funding Information
- CEO (Participation) Grants provide up to $15,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Successful applicants should be able to demonstrate most of the following attributes:
- Australian Citizen or permanent resident of at least 18 years of age.
- Experienced in evidence-based research or advocacy relating to energy consumer issues.
- Good knowledge of the key issues in the Australian energy market that drive energy outcomes.
- Good networking and communication skills to meet people, including senior officials and academics in your chosen country (ies).
- Good writing and presentation skills.
- Be working as a Consumer Advocate or related organisation at present (or with recent experience), preferably one which has worked on National Energy Market issues;
- Is relatively experienced and/or senior in the relevant sector;
- Has good writing skills – Energy Consumers Australia will require a comprehensive bio of grantees work experiences; and
- Has the ability to prepare and deliver presentations – for their meetings overseas and on their return to Australia
For more information, visit https://energyconsumersaustralia.smartygrants.com.au/GO22