Summer 2025 Speth Fellow YSE Students Only
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Position summary:
NRDCs India Program is seeking a Fellow to contribute to the development of supportive research and materials as the team builds out its portfolio of work. The India Programs advocacy is focused on five interconnected strategic priority areas: renewable energy growth and access cooling and energy efficiency climate resilience and health clean transportation and climate goals and global engagement. The Fellows specific project will be developed in consultation with the Fellow based on interests skills and the India Programs priorities.
The Fellowship will provide an excellent opportunity to be a part of climate and energyrelated research in the Indian context with projects ranging from identifying major barriers and potential solutions to clean energy access advancing sustainable and energy efficient cooling solutions building and strengthening resilience to extreme heat fasttracking electric mobility targets and adoption and analyzing Indias progress towards meeting its climate commitments. The Fellow will have the opportunity to collaborate with NRDC India colleagues based in New Delhi and engage with relevant stakeholders and policymakers connected with the project they are working on. Work products and deliverables may include blog posts internal memos briefing memos to external stakeholders and standalone analysis or documents that will be incorporated into NRDC reports factsheets and presentations.
The fellow would report to NRDCs Washington D.C. Office.
Responsibilities
Some of the fellows responsibilities may include:
- Conduct research on topics related to the India Programs strategic priorities including renewable energy cooling and energy efficiency climate resilience and health clean transportation and climate goals.
- Identify barriers and develop potential solutions to clean energy access and adoption.
- Analyze Indias progress toward meeting its climate commitments and targets.
- Work closely with NRDC India colleagues based in New Delhi to align on research priorities and deliverables.
- Engage with relevant stakeholders including policymakers to gather insights share findings and contribute to advocacy efforts.
- Synthesize research into accessible formats for a variety of audiences including internal stakeholders policymakers and the public.
- Contribute to presentations and discussions to advance the India Programs advocacy objectives.
Qualifications
Must be a student from Yale School of Environment to be considered.
NRDC is committed to advancing diversity equity and inclusion both in our work and in our workplace. We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planets most pressing environmental problems and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically underrepresented in the environmental movement.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race color religion gender gender identity or expression marital status sexual orientation national origin citizenship age disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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