Job Description
| Role | Climate Health Specialist |
|---|---|
| Location | New Delhi, India |
| Reports To: | Director of Programs |
| Amount of Travel Required: | Approximately one trip per quarter |
| On-site Requirement: | Hybrid |
ABOUT NRDC INDIA
NRDC India Private Limited is an independent organization based in New Delhi founded to build a healthier and more prosperous future for all Indians.
To attain a healthier and more prosperous future, NRDC India and its partners work with governments and stakeholders at all levels to deliver transformative solutions across the organization’s focus areas. The approach is to collaborate on pilot projects that offer the potential for tangible environmental and public health benefits. NRDC India has a strong proof of concept to bring solutions to scale at the state level – with the goal of informing national policies and unlocking the public investments needed to implement them.
NRDC India also partners alongside Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in the United States, a non-profit environmental advocacy organization. NRDC was founded in 1970 and their people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. NRDC uses law, science, and the support of 3.1 million members to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. In India for over 10 years now, NRDC has been a thought leader and trusted adviser to the partners within the country to tackle climate change and implement energy solution. Since 2009, the India Initiative has combined scientific research and policy acumen to produce game-changing results.
POSITION SUMMARY
NRDC is seeking a highly motivated and collaborative individual to join our India team to advance health-focused projects across our teams. In the role of Health Specialist, the team member will contribute to advancing NRDC India’s climate and environmental health initiatives through high-quality research, writing, and project coordination. The role entails conducting literature reviews, synthesizing scientific evidence, engaging with partners, and collaborating with India and U.S. teams to develop evidence-based strategies to support climate-environment-health goals. This position is expected to operate under moderate supervision and direction.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:
- Help to advance projects across the India office as they relate to environmental health
- Support the health and science team with literature reviews, writing and editing, project management, partner engagement
- Collaborate with the India Office on joint climate-environment-health goals, work with the U.S. teams in the Science Office and Environmental Health to strengthen intuitional approaches towards environmental health challenges.
- Assist senior personnel in synthesizing health science evidence for use in strategic communications, fundraising proposals, and reports to internal and external stakeholders
- Support the maintenance NRDC India’s reference library and stay informed on recent scientific advances related to the team’s work areas
- Monitor and assist with progress on health and science projects with external partners
- Contribute to a culture at NRDC India that supports evidence-based decision-making, project monitoring and evaluation, and furtherance of our health goals
- Draft talking points, event summaries, and meeting notes
The above list of duties is not comprehensive but generally demonstrates the types of matters under the position’s responsibility. Other duties may be assigned.
Requirements
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in environmental health or equivalent related experience
- Relevant/related fields include epidemiology, public health, health policy
- 3-5 years of previous work experience in writing and editing, data collection and scientific analysis, public speaking, oral advocacy with decision-makers, and policy advocacy and design.
- Relevant/ related experience includes: publication of scientific work in peer-reviewed journals and other formats, participation in scientific meetings, scientific collaborations with community-based organizations, experience with data interpretation and visualization
Skills, Abilities, Competencies
- Subject matter expertise in Indian public health topics (e.g., air and water contamination, extreme heat, urban and rural health issues)
- Strong oral, written, and visual communication skills
- Ability to independently conceive, execute, and summarize a scientific literature review
- Experience summarizing peer-reviewed scientific studies
- Experience working with interdisciplinary teams
- Solutions-oriented mindset
- Ability to manage projects effectively to meet internal and external deadlines
- Ability to adapt in a dynamic work environment
- Commitment to NRDC ’s mission and values.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position within the described work environment.
Frequently:
Perform desk-based computer tasks
Frequently:
Ability to interact and communicate with co-workers, institutional partners and others as necessary
Frequently:
Attend planned meetings and collaborate with management and co-workers
Occasionally:
Ability to attend events and activities in the office or offsite
Work is sometimes performed primarily in the office. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet in office settings and moderate in other situations. Hours of employment may sometimes require working flexible and/or longer hours, including nights and weekends, when necessitated by projects. The job includes work-related situations such as those involving challenging, important, urgent, time-sensitive, or multiple matters.
Please send your latest curriculum vitae and a cover letter explaining your interest in the position and working with NRDC India at monica@themerakkizone.com and recruitment@nrdcindia.org. Kindly send your application by 9th January 2026. Please include "Application for position of Climate Health Specialist" in the subject line of the email.