Fellow - Energy Transitions

Summary :

Our partner organization is an independent and non-profit research organisation that -

• Analyses issues at the frontier of addressing climate change, managing the energy transition, and limiting environmental threats in India and globally;
• Informs policymakers, stakeholders and the public about key policy and governance levers, and their implications; and
• Accelerates the transition to an environmentally and socially sustainable future by enabling strategic action for systemic change.

Work Description :

The role of a Fellow is to identify, develop and implement new areas of research and engagement. This includes identifying areas of national strategic importance around India's energy transition, developing a potentially impactful research and policy engagement strategy, identifying potential sources of funding, working with a team to execute the vision, and building networks with peer research organisations, governments and the media in the process.

This is a leadership position within the organization and will require a reasonable amount of time devoted to organisation building, including to coordination meetings and managing key organisational functions. It is a young and exciting organisation, and these are crucial years in its development this position is expected to play a role in that process with institutional commitments ramping up slowly over time.

The candidate must have research experience and interests related to India's energy transition. While they are flexible to candidates specific research interests within this broad field, the candidate should be able to engage

with and carry forward their existing work on governance of energy transitions, metrics and indicators of progress, energy transition and climate change, just transitions for fossil-dependent regions, sub-national electricity transitions and the changing political economy of energy.

The Fellow is expected to develop an independent policy research agenda while collaborating with other team members.

The role demands a level of comfort in publishing peer-reviewed work in top journals, writing policy briefs that speak to live issues, and writing public-facing pieces such as op-eds.

Work Culture :

Our partner organization operates through collaborative decision-making and with key institutional decisions taken collectively. Potentially successful candidates should therefore be comfortable working in such an environment. This includes playing an active role in furthering their team culture goals, encouraging the prospects of their talented younger colleagues, and being open to (and indeed encouraging) feedback from colleagues. They have structured this organisation to ensure independent research and privilege rigorous research and high-quality outputs that drive discourse on India's policy landscape. They also care deeply about equity, both in the workplace and in their research outputs. A successful candidate will likely have the same core emphases.

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