Senior Program Research Specialist – Energy Technology and Policy

Senior Program Research Specialist – Energy Technology and Policy

WRI – World Resources Institute

New Delhi, India

Program overview for Energy

The objective of the WRI India energy program is to inform and guide India’s transition to cleaner energy. The program focuses on three inter-related aspects of this energy transition: enhancing energy access, scaling renewables among specific consumer categories, and achieving higher levels of energy and buildings efficiency. Our energy access work is specifically aimed at ensuring access to affordable and clean energy so as to improve socio-economic development in rural and remote regions of India. Through strong research, ground-level implementation experience, partnerships with key stakeholders and communicating our work, we seek to achieve impact at scale.

Job Highlight

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.

What you will do

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.

What you will need

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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