Energy, Climate & Finance Associate I
Location:
Payment: Paid
Category: Other
Contact: Shefaali Desai
sdesai@wri.org
Posted: Feb 3, 2015
The WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities seeks an Associate to guide several urban infrastructure and municipal finance 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, climate change and finance 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 with thorough knowledge of municipal finance, sustainable low carbon urban infrastructure and services delivery financing, public and private finance, domestic and international finance (including climate finance). Therefore the candidate will need to have a firm grounding in both municipal finance 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 enabling frameworks (both domestic and international) for sustainable low-carbon urban development, urban transport, residential and commercial building efficiency, electricity production and distribution, and the UNFCCC negotiations.
In particular, she / he will support the development and dissemination of content related to innovative approach for urban services delivery, replicable and scalable business models to support the deployment of innovative solutions, and financial structuring of those sustainable business models.
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.