Senior Research Analyst, Landscape Restoration, Food, Land and Water Program, WRI India
1 month ago
About your role
:The Food, Land and Water Program at WRI India is seeking a Senior Program Research Analyst to support the ongoing work on Landscape Restoration in India. Larger focus of the work is to unlock the potential of a restoration economy to improve rural jobs and livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, build regenerative agricultural systems, and mitigate climate change impacts by protecting and restoring natural ecosystems and biodiversity. Centering the focus on equity and inclusion, your role would be to conduct deep research on benefits of landscape restoration with an aim to inform private investments and policy decisions, reduce policy barriers and design incentives that can trigger widescale social, environmental, and economic impacts.You will be someone who has an advanced degree in development studies, environmental governance, public policy, or related fields and minimum six years of full-time, relevant post-study work experience. Interdisciplinary research background in forestry, agriculture, climate change, policy studies, or development studies. The position holder must be willing to travel to remote locations in the country.You will be asked to undertake research on landscape restoration and associated benefits and important enabling conditions to consider for scaling restoration in India.
How your day will unfold: I. Research (70%)· Develop evidence-based research strategies on the mitigation and adaptation benefits of landscape restoration interventions such as agroforestry, trees on bunds and boundaries, farm forestry, pastureland development, bamboo plantations etc. for unlocking the potential of a restoration economy. This would include undertaking research, developing research frameworks, and informed strategies to reduce barriers and increase incentives for a diverse team members to launch, scale, and pivot towards a regenerative restoration economy.· Support the identification, stocktaking and analysis of important partners, policies and regulations, including barriers to their implementation with a focus on mitigation and adaptation for the regenerative restoration economy through research. This will include desk-based review of government data, published literature, and grey literature, and primary data collection from important partners.· Develop high-quality knowledge products (reports, policy briefs, working papers) that encapsulate research findings and communicate these to diverse audiences, to strengthen the enabling (policy) ecosystem and incentives for the regenerative restoration economy to flourish in India.· Support the important government departments in organizing targeted ‘Restoration Dialogues’- a multi-partner platform for fostering interdepartmental collaborative developing convergence of public funding for integrating the mitigation and adaptation benefits of the interventions in the policy incentives for implementation and scaling.II. Partnerships, engagement and communication (30%)· Develop relationships with important partners including governments, research organizations and universities, civil society organizations, and corporate sector for implementing and upscaling restoration interventions with adaptation and mitigation benefits in selected 3 states and in India.· Support with development of communication and outreach strategy and material like brochures, web content, op-eds, blogs with the communications team.· Provide capacity-building support to program partners in understanding frameworks and tools developed for assessing adaptation and mitigation benefits flowing from landscape level interventions.· Support different activities of the programme including organizing roundtables, workshops, seminars, meetings etc. related to Restoration Dialogues.· Support in identifying important mentors through the knowledge network Qualifications and requirements we seek: · Master's degree in Development Studies, Environmental Governance, Public Policy/Law, Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, or similar fields.· At least 4 to 7 years of experience in policy research relating to relating to Climate Change in agriculture, and natural resource management sector.· Knowledge of landscape restoration, forestry, and agriculture, climate change is essential.· Knowledge of and experience with quantitative and qualitative tools for both primary and secondary research.· Excellent/ Research, interpersonal/ written/ communication skills· Ability to present complex information· Ability to work calmly under high pressure and ability to think creatively.· Demonstrated skills preparing program documents, reports, policy briefs etc. and team management.· Strong ability to communicate clearly and effectively in conversation and writing, including professional-quality writing for policy and communications products.· Fluency in spoken and written English and Hindi is essential. Additional proficiency in Marathi will be advantageous.· Ability to take the initiative, brainstorm, think creatively, juggle multiple priorities and work under pressure with tight deadlines. You must be willing to try new approaches and ideas and be innovative.· Flexible and self-motivated, with capacity to multi-task and prioritize, a self-starter having ability to manage the tasks with minimum guidance· Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint is a requirement. Salary and Benefits : INR 11,00,000 to INR 13,00,000 CTC
Salary shall be commensurate with experience and skills. WRI offers a generous and comprehensive benefits package. Location: New Delhi, India
Duration : The position is a one year position (extendable based on performance and project requirements). The start date is as soon as possible.
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new delhi, India World Resources Institute Full timeAbout your role :The Food, Land and Water Program at WRI India is seeking a Senior Program Research Analyst to support the ongoing work on Landscape Restoration in India. Larger focus of the work is to unlock the potential of a restoration economy to improve rural jobs and livelihoods, enhance food and nutrition security, build regenerative agricultural...
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