Research Associate (Climate Change, Urbanisation and Sustainability)

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Skills you'll use

What you'll do

• Clean Technologies and Green Growth : Techno-economics of energy transition solutions (clean power, transport systems and industrial decarbonisation), incl. clean fuels, combined with economic modelling to assess impacts on growth, international trade, carbon pricing and estimating financing needs and sources.
• Circular Economy and Environment : Economic analysis and modelling of energy transition impacts, with a focus on resource efficiency, recycling systems, critical raw materials, battery circularity, etc.
• Adaptation and Loss & Damage : Economic Modelling with a focus on energy transition impacts, international trade, carbon pricing and estimating financing needs and sources
• An M.Phil. degree or MA/ MSc. (Economics / Statistics / related fields) from a reputed University with 2 years of work experience in policy research. Advanced quantitative skills are sought . Prior experience of working on econometric or statistical models (specifically optimization models) is required. Candidates with additional experience or training in environmental or energy economics or natural resource management would be preferred.
• The candidate should have excellent programming capabilities. S/he should be comfortable working on Stata, R or Python . Expertise in GAMS is an additional merit.
• As collation of data from multiple sources would be required, experience in handling large unit-level government data (ASI, NSSO Unit-level surveys, Census, etc.) is a must.
• Good research and writing skills.
• Willingness to travel for surveys, stakeholder meetings and other work-related engagements

Who can apply

• Research and Knowledge Generation:  The candidate will work in a fast-paced environment and assist the team with various research projects. S/he will be responsible for data collection, cleaning, and analysis. Research work may involve primary or secondary research, and the candidate must be comfortable with both. The collected knowledge will need to be documented in the form of reports/working papers/policy briefs/strategy papers/op-eds/journal articles, depending on the needs of the project.
• Stakeholder Management:  Management and interaction with stakeholders are critical aspects of the job. The candidate must be comfortable with networking and interacting with stakeholders regularly.
• Project Management: The candidate is expected to help the team with managing the project and organising events, stakeholders’ meetings, roundtables, etc. The project management activities also include dissemination activities outlined in the project.

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