Program Associate - Urban Designer Job in Delhi at World Resources Institute

World Resource Institute is hiring for the role of Program Associate - Urban Designer!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Provide design support to WRI India’s initiatives on climate resilience/ environmental governance and management/ urban ecology/ water sensitive planning/ and landscape design.
• Support coordination as required for smooth execution of the ‘Thriving Eco City-regions’ initiative in close consultation with internal teams and various other stakeholders across multiple city regions. 
• Organize and manage activities towards running coalitions/platforms/forums/ workshops/ and conferences based on project need and relevance.
• Support through conceptual designs, reviews, and analysis of existing and/or upcoming initiatives and contribute towards shaping deliverables under the relevant projects such as layout designs, review summaries, recommendations, reports, visual analytics, and dashboards. 
• Communicate closely with WRI India internal team members towards meeting the objectives of the project and constant progress reporting.
• Provide technical design support for deliverables related to planned project activities with all project partners and relevant stakeholders. This includes undertaking and/or supervising design layouts, primary and secondary research and writing, on-site project activities including convenings, stakeholder dialogues, project implementation, technical reviews and inputs, etc. 

Requirements:

• PhD/Masters/Equivalent Post Graduate degree in water-sensitive urban planning/ landscape / urban design/ water resources management/ urban ecology/ or related disciplines is desirable.
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant work experience with city/ state/ regional planning initiatives; implementation and management of large-scale action research projects related to climate resilience, water-sensitive urban planning, urban ecology, environmental governance, and management, etc. 
• Specialization or work experience demonstrated in the areas of climate resilience, ecologically driven urban planning, and regional or sub-regional water management is preferable. 
• High-level knowledge of the Indian urban development, climate, and environment paradigms, policies; current and future trends; innovations, and practices related to water resilience and sponge cities.  
• Research and design experience using relevant tools and methods for network analysis, integrated modeling solutions for catchments, and strategies for ensuring sustainable water systems at the watershed and neighborhood levels will be preferred. Knowledge of advanced GIS tools is a strong plus.
• Demonstrated experience in designing climate-resilient solutions, managing implementation projects, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Should have demonstrated experience in managing teams and/or stakeholder relationships and task management.