• Be the focal point for building partnerships to advance a structured and place-based approach to economic development planning in Varanasi.
• Coordinate with project management teams based in Delhi to ensure project goals and expectations are met.
• Provide context specific insights, collect relevant data from stakeholders and do ground checks, while effectively communicating the same to remotely located teams.
• Facilitate stakeholder consultations and opportunity framing exercises to co-create economic visions, prioritize action areas, and identify existing, committed, and potential strategic projects.
• Prepare presentations and write analytical reports to succinctly capture spatial, economic, social, and environmental insights for the dissemination of these findings to relevant stakeholders.
• Participate in external meetings, roundtable discussions and conferences and represent organizational interests.
• Work closely with the GIS / remote sensing team members to develop economic, social, climate, and environmental insights from spatial data. Work closely with project team members to develop policy positions on sustainable economic development planning including the conceptualization of spatio-economic plans and strategic projects.

• Excellent research, writing, editing, and communication skills
• Familiarity with GIS, SPSS/ STATA will be a bonus
• Experience in urban economic strategy, city/ region master planning, urban investment planning, and project formulation would be beneficial.
• Highly motivated, proactive workstyle, detail oriented, and organized
• Ability to take on the responsibilities described above with a high level of independence.
• Fluent in Hindi and English.

Program Overview for Sustainable Cities and Transport

At WRI India Ross Center we focus on 10 integrated solutions to urban challenges. Through applied research, tools, hands-on advice, and by tapping our network of global experts, we accelerate transformative urban initiatives that have the power to change Indian cities into thriving, equitable and low-carbon places that are good for people and the planet.

Working at WRI India Ross Center offers you the unique opportunity to learn and grow as you collaborate with a diverse set of change agents across Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. As India’s biggest urban focused think and do tank, we seek thoughtful, enterprise-minded and sensitive individuals who can help us support this transformation and make a positive difference to citizens’ everyday lives.