Senior Program Associate- Climate Resilience Practice

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About the Organization

WRI India, an independent charity legally registered as the India Resources Trust, provides objective information and practical proposals to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable development. WRI India’s mission is to help human society live in ways that protect the Earth’s environment and its capacity to provide for the needs and aspirations of current and future generations. Through research, analysis, and recommendations, WRI India puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human well-being.

We are inspired by and associated with the World Resources Institute (WRI), a global research organization. Currently, over 150 researchers are working with WRI India in our offices in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.

Job Description

WRI India is looking for a Senior Project Associate to join the Climate Resilience Practice (CRP) team in India. You will support the vision of CRP to help different tiers of the government, civil society, and other relevant partners to mainstream climate change into development planning and policies for the state of Tamil Nadu.

WRI’s CRP team engages in a diverse body of work. The current projects build on a foundation of almost 10 years of work on climate change adaptation, much of which was conducted by a prior incarnation known as the Vulnerability & Adaptation Initiative. CRP has developed path-setting knowledge products to assess national institutional capacity and support civil society to enhance resilience efforts at the scale required.

You will be a unique opportunity for those wishing to cut-edge research and implementation in the field of climate change planning, institutional capacity building and mobilizing finance for climate action. You will join a team at CRP and work with important government partners in the state to train and build institutional capacity to mainstream climate change (adaptation and mitigation) into the state’s overall development planning. You will be housed in the department of environment (DoE) with the TN government, and contribute to daily coordination to support the state government in planning of their climate change agenda.

Job Responsibilities

Research & Knowledge 

• Support in designing a training module and implementing capacity building workshops at state, district and city level on mainstreaming climate change and climate proofing sectoral development plans 
• Develop frameworks for integrating climate adaptation and resilience actions with district and city plans and budgets, specifically in Tamil Nadu  
• Help develop important climate adaptation strategies and investment plans for states  
• Support research on climate finance and mobilizing resources for adaptation activities 
• Support the conceptualization and development of concept notes for funding climate change projects for states 
• Help pilot test frameworks and tools that help states prioritise climate actions to mainstream with development budgets  
• Lead the work at the city level with knowledge on urban planning and budgets 
• Support field visits for the climate smart villages  
• Undertake field visits to the relevant priority districts for gathering information and feedback from diverse partners  
• Provide technical support to states, districts and cities in developing and evaluating nature-based solutions for climate action 
• Collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data  
• Contribute to knowledge products and working papers
• Provide support to other CRP projects

 Administrative  

• Partner with governmental and non-governmental partners and other important identified partners
• Plan and implement state level training programmes for important partners.
• Organize internal and external meetings, workshops, conferences and other distribution activities.
• Support the state Department of Environment in developing relevant government orders. Notifications following their demand, with support from the team   

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• Master’s Degree in Economics, Environment, Natural Resource Economics, Climate Change, Development Studies or related discipline.
• Between 5-7 years of relevant fulltime research work experience in related domains
• Experience of international, national and sub-national climate change policy landscape (SAPCC, NAPCC, NDC, NAP, city climate action plans)
• An understanding of the government budget planning process and public finance management 
• Prior work experience at the sub-national level and liasoning with state governments
• Prior work experience in the state of Tamil Nadu
• Undertake complex quantitative and qualitative analysis of large data sets
• Willingness to travel for work and conduct field visits and on short notice
• Ability to work independently and shoulder responsibility
• Fluency in English, Tamil and Hindi required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience writing reports and publishing papers on climate change policy
• Experience in climate finance research, in particular a firm grasp on public budgetary processes across different sectors at national and sub-national levels
• Prior work experience with research organizations, field level experience
• Prior experience in engaging and working with governmental agencies and sectors, and networking with other partners from the environmental and developmental space.
• Prior experience with building and reviewing concept notes/proposals for Green Climate Fund, Adaptation Fund and other avenues of climate finance.

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