Intern – Energy, WRI India

Institution Overview

World Resources Institute (WRI) is an independent, non-profit global research organization that turns big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human well-being. Our work focuses on building sustainable and livable cities and working towards a low carbon economy. Through research, analysis, and recommendations, World Resources Institute puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human well-being.

WRI India has the capacity to convene key stakeholders, and forge strategic partnerships with governments, business, foundations, civil society organizations, institutes and NGOs, to scale-up solutions that can bring game-changing results for the sustainable management of natural resources in India.

Position Overview:

WRI India is seeking an intern for its Energy Program. Our energy access work is to support research on advancing demand-driven solutions for affordable, reliable, clean energy to power sustainable development, with a specific focus on Jharkhand.

Key Responsibilities:

The intern will undertake a range of responsibilities as listed below.

• Mining and collating electricity and socio-economic development related data (including with geo-spatial attributes) from secondary sources, cleaning and processing primary data from the field, reorganizing data in a standardised format that can be read by either human or machine
• Using statistical tools to interpret data sets, identify trends and patterns that could be valuable for the project’s diagnostic and predictive analytics efforts
• Creating appropriate documentation that allows stakeholders to understand the steps of the data analysis process and duplicate or replicate the analysis, if necessary
• Sharpen insights by complementing the analyses by working closely with project team and conducting literature review and consultations to validate abovementioned findings

Required Attributes and Credentials:

• Completed or on-going higher education degree in Statistics, Data Science, Analytics, development economics, Mathematics, or related social science subjects
• Experience in conducting data mining, evaluation, analysis, and visualizations
• Experience of using programming languages and tools like Python, R, Stata, Tableau, SAS, Macro functions in Excel for analysing and interpreting data
• Experience in translating analyses and data interpretation into descriptive reports and presentations
• Working knowledge of statistical and geo-spatial databases especially with respect to Jharkhand, and an understanding of the relationship between electricity access and socio-economic development is preferable

Duration: The internship will be for 3 months.

Location: Virtual, India

Stipend: INR 25,000 per Month

To Apply:

Only Qualified applicants should apply online at https://jobs.jobvite.com/wri/jobs. All applications must be submitted online through this career portal in order to be formally considered. 

List of Documents to be attached:

• Cover Letter/ Resume/ Writing Sample/ Reports/

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for interview purpose. Finalized candidate will be required to take a writing/analytical test. 

We believe in equal employment, it is our policy to recruit, and provide opportunities for advancement in all job classifications without regard to caste, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, sexual preference, parental status, or disability.

Learn more about our organization at www.wri.org.