Senior Program Research Specialist

World Resources Institute (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 WRI, a research organization. Currently over 300 researchers are working with WRI India in our offices at Delhi, Mumbai and Bengaluru.

The colleague will be part of a focused team that engages extensively with Government of India and State Government departments, ministries and other agencies while working on conducting policy, regulatory and technical analyses of developments connected to the Indian energy sector that are aligned to WRI India’s 5-year strategy. This colleague will also play a vital role in enhancing the visibility of work being carried out in other parts of the energy program and other programs in WRI India that are aligned with the program objectives. A non-exhaustive set of activities that the colleague would be involved in are given below –

Analytical Work:

Lead specific pieces of research work on energy technologies, just & inclusive energy transitions, energy access, livelihoods, skilling, workforce development, circular economy and where required provide specific inputs to analytical work for the WRI India Energy Team

Respond to dynamic requests from ministries and other government bodies for research inputs, analysis and documentation.

Engagement with Decision-makers:

• Support policy dialog and suggest innovative ideas and insights to WRI India team and the management on policy and regulatory issues in the energy sector, that could facilitate overall India’s energy transition.
• Support senior colleagues to develop & sustain productive relationships with decision makers.
• Convene different stakeholders at appropriate venues to develop the conversations related to clean energy in India and possible interventions that can be made by WRI India

Support in coordinating with stakeholders in the energy sector:

• Contribute to outreach activities such as preparing proposals, concept notes, discussion papers, brochures, etc. and actively support in organizing roundtables, workshops, and other types of stakeholder engagement.
• Support the WRI India Energy team to coordinate with internal and external partners, keep track of important developments in the sector through outreach activities.
• Represent the organisations as and when requested at the meetings, conferences and other relevant outreach events to share WRI India Energy Team’s work and analyses in the energy sector.

Qualifications and requirements with seek:

• The ideal colleague will have 7-10 Years of experience in the energy sector with exposure to areas of policy analyses, regulations, and understanding the support mechanisms for the sector.
• Must be a team player, who can respond to analytical request in short time.
• Should have the knowledge of RE sector, its various data sources and policy developments in India.
• Must be able to handle large data sets comfortably.
• Master’s degree in energy, engineering or relevant areas, preferably Energy Efficiency, Clean Energy, Environmental Economics.

Knowledge & Skills : 

• Steller written, spoken and presentation skills.
• Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to present the analyses in crisp short write-ups.
• Should be proficient in MS – Suite such as MS-WORD, MS-Excel, MS-Powerpoint etc.
• Knowledge of any advanced programming language like Python, R or any other similar open-source analytics is a plus.

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