Energy & Climate, Associate I

Firm: World Resources Institute
Location:
Washington, DC

Payment: Paid
Start Date: Feb 2, 2015
Category: Other
Contact: Angela Enriquez
aenriquez@wri.org

Posted: Nov 26, 2014

The WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities seeks an Associate to guide several urban energy and climate research and institutional development projects to successful completion and measurable impacts. The Associate will develop research and provide writing and project management support to the Energy and Climate team, which contributes to research and project implementation in the areas of energy, climate change and finance related to cities and urban transport.

The position is being offered in a small and expanding team that is working on energy and climate change in cities with an underlying focus on development impacts of related activities within the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities. The Associate will contribute to the Energy and Climate team’s objective to help cities power development with affordable sustainable electricity, significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerability to climate change impacts, meet ambitious goals on access to urban opportunities and energy, and drive ambition in both sub-national and national climate commitments.

The candidate will be required to actively support all elements of the strategy to reach this aim and so will need to have a firm grounding in both urban energy system analysis and urban low-carbon policy and practice on all levels from the local to the international. The candidate will also be expected to possess an understanding of related issues, such as financing sustainable low carbon urban infrastructure (including climate finance), the UNFCCC negotiations, and enabling frameworks (both domestic and international) for low carbon urban development. In particular, she / he will support the development and dissemination of content related to urban energy system and low-carbon urban infrastructure planning and financing.

The position is located in WRI's Washington, D.C. office and will report directly to the Director of Energy and Climate of the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.