Associate, Green Skilling

About the Organization:

Swaniti Initiative is an ecosystem builder working toward a sustainable future in a climate constrained world. It has a strong legacy of working of supporting Parliamentarians and sub-national governments on designing and delivering interventions that respond to the climate crisis. Recently, Swaniti has been increasingly engaging with the private sector in textile, cement and steel in order to decarbonize industries. We have conducted in depth mapping at a sub national level to understand the drivers toward large scale transition. Whether it is crystallizing the financial case for energy transition or unlocking climate finance for MSMEs in hard to abate industries, Swaniti has been working with industry associations to overcome them. Through our work we have come to believe that while there is significant interest amongst industry and government to decarbonize, there aren’t clear pathways and support mechanisms to enable this shift quickly.

About the Position

Job Overview:

We are looking for an experienced professional who is keen on taking up the role in a project focused on green skilling. The professional will be expected to further Swaniti’s vision on understanding the gaps and opportunities on green skilling and then work with state governments on operationalizing them. The current areas of “green skilling” include solar, hydro, geothermal, wind and domestic waste management. Given the technical requirements of the space, the following qualities would be favourably looked upon for the candidate.

• The candidate must have demonstrated experience in the skills sector. This can include conducting skill assessments, working with skilling departments, and managing skilling work.
  
• Past experiences of working on sustainability and climate would be favourably looked upon, including on state and central government initiative.
  
• Demonstrated experience of working with state/central government would be advantageous
  
• A strong understanding of the skilling ecosystem would support the candidacy.
  
• Strong efficiency in conducting on-field surveys, FGDs s and household interviews
  

Roles & Responsibilities:

As mentioned above, Swaniti has been working to identify economic opportunities for last mile communities during energy transition. And thus, skilling has been key to our work. We are looking for Associates who can support in a.) ground level analysis through primary data and research, b.) assistance to state governments on policy planning and program identification and c.) requisite monitoring and program implementation support on ground. Therefore, the Associate will be working as part of a larger team to be able to -

• Develop high-quality research documents, along with need assessment, situation analysis, data analysis, brainstorming with relevant stakeholders.
  
• Coordinate, manage, and draft a comprehensive research paper on community readiness for green skilling.
  
• The Associate will be expected to come up with critical research inputs and support in policy formulation document.
  
• Work with the state administration to operationalize the feedback that is being collected within communities.
  
• Organize and execute events, seminars, and roundtable discussions, etc., that are needed for the green-skilling process.
  
• Provide any additional support to build out capabilities around green skilling.
  
• Conduct on field surveys and analyse large-scale data sets.
  
  
  
  

Requirements

Qualifications:

• The candidate should be well versed in Telugu
• Candidates must have at least 3 years of experience working in skilling, energy and livelihoods.
  
• Experience in Branding and Marketing will be preferred.
• Prior experience in handling large-scale government data sets and working with state departments
  
• A post-graduate degree in any field with a preference for those possessing a degree in environment, climate and sustainability, energy, skilling related field, etc., is strongly preferred.
  
• Prior experience working with government and grassroots organizations in the space of skilling and livelihoods
  
  

In case you do not hear from us within 30 days, please consider your application to be unsuccessful and your application has been retained in our database for future opportunities.