Senior Program Associate – Thriving Eco-City Regions

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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 move human society to live in ways that protect 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 World Resources Institute (WRI), a research organization. Currently over 250 researchers are working with WRI India in our offices at Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru. 

Job Description

You will be based in New Delhi and would provide research and technical support to ECR team members as well as city partners/ stakeholders across the geographies where ECR projects are currently active on need basis. Through your knowledge and work experience in the domains of urban ecology, geography, environmental management, and climate resilience, you will contribute towards current and proposed research and implementation efforts under ECR initiative. You will report to Program Manager, Urban Development, WRI India. 

Job Responsibilities

• Provide research and technical support to WRI India’s initiatives on climate resilience/ environmental governance and management/ urban ecology/ hazard risk/ urban policy and planning.
• Support ongoing research efforts towards analysis and framework building under the Thriving Eco City-regions initiative to prepare research publications, reports and related outputs.
• Support coordination as required for smooth execution of the ‘Thriving Eco City-regions’ initiative in close consultation with internal teams and various other stakeholders across multiple city-regions. 
• Support through technical reviews and analysis of existing and/or upcoming initiatives and contribute towards shaping deliverables under the relevant projects such as layout designs, review summaries, recommendations, reports, visual analytics, and dashboards. 
• Communicate closely with WRI India internal team members towards meeting objectives of the project and constant progress reporting.
• Provide technical design support for deliverables related to planned project activities with all project partners and relevant stakeholders. This includes undertaking and/or supervising design layouts, primary and secondary research and writing, on-site project activities including convenings, stakeholder dialogues, project implementation, technical reviews and inputs etc. 
• Support in relationship management with donors/ implementation partners/ others as needed for better execution of various activities planned under the subject project. 
• Contribute towards organizing and administering technical training and capacity building workshops to various stakeholders as required.

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• PhD/Masters/Equivalent Post Graduate degree in climate policy/ environmental resource management/ urban ecology/ climate science research or related disciplines is desirable. 
• 4 to 7 years of relevant work experience with city/ state/ regional planning initiatives; implementation and management of largescale action research projects related to climate resilience, urban ecology, environmental governance and management, etc. 
• Specialization or work experience demonstrated in the areas of climate resilience, climate studies, ecologically driven urban planning is preferrable. 
• A high-level knowledge of the Indian urban development, climate, and environment paradigms, policies; current and future trends; innovations and practices related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.   
• Research and design experience using relevant tools and methods for network analysis, integrated modelling solutions for catchments, strategies for ensuring sustainable water systems at the watershed and neighborhood levels will be preferred. Knowledge of advanced GIS tools is a strong plus.
• Demonstrated experience in designing climate resilient solutions, managing implementation projects, quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Should have demonstrated experience in managing teams and/or stakeholder relationships and task management.
• Should have experience in working with the Government/ ministries/ departments and other non-government stakeholders such as local academic/ research institutes, civil society organizations etc.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills for overall team coordination
• Detail oriented, able to manage multiple priorities, ensure highest standards of ethics and consistency of work.
• Experience in working effectively and respectfully in diverse teams and communities. 
• Strong critical thinking capabilities with an ability to rapidly assess situational needs, develop problem solving strategies, and implement sustainable solutions. 

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