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    Development Economist Expert - New Delhi, India - RTI International

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    RTI International New Delhi, India

    3 weeks ago

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    Development Economics Expert is a Full-time position with RTI International.


    RTI International is an independent, non-profit research institute established in 1958, with a mission to improve the human condition by turning knowledge into practice.

    Our vision is to address the world's most critical problems with science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future.

    More details are available at In 2014, RTI International established RTI International India (RTI India), wholly owned subsidiary, as a testament to the strategic importance that India holds with regards to the global development agenda.


    Location:
    Delhi NCR


    Job Description:

    The individual will need to:

    • Lead ongoing and new projects including planning, implementation and evaluation of climate economics and finance projects, economic analysis, policy assessments and program evaluations.
    • Collaborate with different teams, build relationship with other teams at RTI supporting in implementation on various climate mitigation and adaptation projects.
    • Provide technical inputs for various assignments in economic costbenefit analysis, life cycle cost studies, financial structuring etc.
    • Collaborate with stakeholders to define project objectives, scope, timelines, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and priorities.
    • Develop project plans, budgets, resource allocation strategies, and risk management plans.
    • Coordinate and oversee project teams, providing guidance, support and mentorship to team members.
    • Monitor project progress, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and prepare regular progress reports for stakeholders.
    • Conduct economic research, data analysis, and modelling to support project decisionmaking and policy recommendations.
    • Evaluate project outcomes, assess impact, and identify lessons learned to inform future projects and strategies.
    • Support business development including proposal wiring and teaming strategies in climate mitigation and adaptation projects.
    • Collaborate with other RTI divisions to develop crosssectoral concepts and research proposals as well as to deliver innovative solutions to financing issues across multitude of challenges.
    • Lead and support delivery of ongoing cobenefit project (detailed below) will be an immediate priority.

    About the project:


    RTI is working on a donor funded project to measure climate adaptation co-benefits in Agricultural, Urban/Rural Infrastructure and Water sectors.


    The objectives of the assignment are:
    - to design a framework cum methodology to identify, measure, assess and evaluate the indicators for the 3 sectors that can account climate co-benefits with a focus on adaptation;
    • Apply climate lens, develop climate cobenefits methodology and calculate adaptation cobenefits of schemes in 3 partner states (Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh).

    Project Specific responsibilities:

    • Contributing to overall assignment deliverables in coordination with team leader and team members.
    • Analyze the state of play in specified sectors: Agriculture, Infrastructure, and water with respect to climate adaptation and cobenefits in the mentioned states.
    • Assess the current priorities in the adaptation space aligning with the SAPCC and SDGs, priorities.
    • Development of methodology and framework for the abovementioned sector for measuring adaptation cobenefits using tools such as econometric modelling.
    • Development of M&E framework including identifying key indicators/ parameters to measure the climate cobenefits in the sectors: Agriculture, Water, and Infrastructure.
    • Support in conducting a few pilots on the methodology and framework developed for above mentioned sectors and states.
    • Developing a roadmap for nationwide adoption of the tested methodologies
    • Developing Monitoring and Evaluation process of climate cobenefits methodology.
    • Identify key M&E methodologies and data sources in the agriculture, water and rural infrastructure sectors.
    • Develop a study on evaluation of indicators incorporated in the climate cobenefits methodologies.

    Qualifications & Experience:

    Education/training:
    Post Graduate degree in Economics / Finance / Management/relevant subject. Ph.
    D. will be an advantage.

    Language:
    Good business language skills in English and Hindi

    General professional experience:
    At-least 10 years of professional experience in the econometric modelling/ climate change/ relevant subject

    Specific professional experience:
    At-least 8 years of experience of working with government stakeholders, policy analysis, report writing, econometric analysis and modelling.

    Regional experience:
    At-least 3 years of experience in projects in India


    Skills:

    • Excellent communication skills
    • Advanced quantitative analytical skills and excellent writing capability
    • Ability to work in a fastpaced environment and deliver under pressure.
    • Ability to prioritize conflicting requirements.
    • Working with Government entities at centre and state level is required. Previous experience in one or more of Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh is desirable.
    • Selfmotivated and capacity to function with limited supervision.
    • Team player and collaborative style is desired as the selected individual will have to work with a range of colleagues and stakeholders.
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