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 and online activists 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.
NRDC has partnered with premier experts – including national, state, and local governments – to advance cutting-edge scientific and policy research, analysis, and innovations in four interconnected areas – clean energy transition, energy efficiency and cooling, clean transportation, and climate resilience and health.
Job Description
| Role | Consultants, Climate and Health |
|---|---|
| Location | New Delhi with 40% travel |
| Consultancy Period | 12 months |
| Positions to be filled | 2 |
POSITION SUMMARY
NRDC India is hiring Consultants – Climate and Health who will play an active role in advancing our work on climate resilience work in India. The incumbent will engage in comprehensive research, data analysis, and collaboration with experts to support evidence-based extreme heat, air pollution and health projects of NRDC India.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Support NRDC India climate resilience and health team in outreach, literature review, data collection (climate, meteorology, health, socio-economic, GIS), policy and technical research, analysis on climate change impacts on human health, in particular extreme heat and air pollution projects of NRDC India.
- Support the core team in writing of blogs, reports, concept notes and project notes on climate resilience and health projects of NRDC India.
- Assist climate resilience and health team in project activities including project planning, implementation especially on extreme heat and close coordination and communication with colleagues and project partners
- Daily domestic and international communication with colleagues and partners by phone, email and in-person
- Support the core team in outreach activities with partners, government and media
- Domestic travel for meetings, conferences, roundtables, interviews, surveys, data collection etc.
Qualifications
- Post Graduate Degree in Multidisciplinary Subject Preferably Disaster Management and/or Public Health/Epidemiology/Biostatistics/ Environmental Science/Engineering/ Science/Social Science and Humanities
- Demonstrated experience in climate/environmental/health research and policy work in India
Key Competencies
Desired:
- Excellent research and analytical skills, with a clear, direct writing style
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex projects successfully, problem solve, take proactive approaches to project management, collaborate effectively, and deliver high quality work products
- Open-mindedness, flexibility, and an eagerness to take on challenging work
- Substantive knowledge in climate science, extreme heat, and air pollution as they relate to human health
- Knowledge of the Indian political system, economic structures, and socio-cultural landscape, and a network of professional contacts in India
- Proficiency in English as well as one additional Indian language is preferred
- Experience with a variety of implementation including written and spoken communications, conference/workshop presentations, legislative and government outreach, and partner coordination
- Ability to travel domestically and to work based in New Delhi
- Work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated ability to work in entrepreneurial fashion and handle multiple tasks and work well under pressure
Preferable:
- Experience of working with large health/socio-economic/geo-informatics data sets
- Experience in data analysis in R/Python/SPSS and GIS
- Advanced Scientific (English) reading and writing skills
Interested candidates should email their CV to rkapoor@nrdcindia.org and recruitment@nrdcindia.org by 5th January 2025. Please include 'Application for position of Consultant Climate and Health' in the subject line of the email.
For further information about NRDC India, please visit www.nrdcindia.org.