Climate Policy Initiative 

Job description:-

The Senior Analyst, reporting directly to the Senior Program Manager, would be a pivotal part of the emerging work within CPI related to urban green transition, including urban resilience, climate change-induced disaster risk management and green building materials.

Job Responsibilities:-

• Anchoring the urban resilience and disaster risk management work at CPI’s India office; helping identify new concepts and areas of intervention in these areas and building strategies for their development
• Conducting research and collating primary or secondary data, as necessary, from relevant sources
• Engaging in dialogue with relevant stakeholders like urban local bodies, municipal authorities and parastatal institutions, and managing stakeholder relationships
• Developing knowledge collaterals like policy papers, reports and blogs, and other outputs like proposals and presentations for funders and other stakeholders
• Developing new concept notes in the fields of resilience and disaster risk for funders
• Organising external stakeholder forums for finding financing solutions in urban heat resilience/ disaster resilience/ green buildings; engaging seamlessly with colleagues in urban programs in other offices of CPI
• Reporting on program deliverables as stipulated in grant agreements in a timely manner and adhering to quality standards

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience:-

The candidate should have a commitment to CPI’s mission and values and a passion for addressing climate change related policy and finance issues. Besides, s/he should have the following credentials.

• A Post-Graduate in Planning/ Urban Planning and Development/ Urban Policy/ Disaster Risk and Resilience/ Sustainable Development or an equivalent Social Sciences qualification relevant to the aforesaid areas. A Bachelor’s degree in Architecture would be preferable.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant work experience in urban sector with focus on resilience/ disaster management with extensive work in research, policy, project design and development, project costing and financing, monitoring and evaluation, etc.