Consultant IWMI-Tata Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

As ITP pre-doctoral fellows, successful candidates will follow in the footsteps of a growing and illustrious list of ITP alumni who have gone on to pursue master’s and doctoral programs at some of the world’s leading academic institutions, including Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, Illinois, Georgetown, ISS Hague, UNESCO-IHE, TU-Delft, TU-Munich, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, IIT-Bombay, and IIM-Ahmedabad.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Identify and develop a core research/action research theme and become the ITP ‘custodian’ for the same, in consultation with the ITP Program Leader.
• Assist the ITP Program Leader to develop, implement, monitor, and manage commissioned research, field studies, field experiments, and action research pilots in collaboration with Tata Trusts and associates in different parts of the country.
• Supervise, guide and support student interns in successful production of research outputs.
• Prepare evidence-based research and policy products.
• Author/co-author at least 4 papers/articles/ ‘ITP Research Highlights’ in a year.
• Assist ITP Program Leader in program management and donor reporting.

Requirements:

Minimum Educational Qualifications & Experience Required:

• Master’s degree in economics, agricultural economics, management, rural management, public policy, rural livelihoods, or a similar closely related subject.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Experience with research/action research/field implementation, particularly related to water management in agriculture, will be preferred.
• Demonstrated interest in policy research in the natural resources, water, energy, agriculture, or rural livelihoods domain.
• Ability and eagerness to undertake field-based research and action research.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills; ability and willingness to work in diverse, interdisciplinary teams.
• Ability to synthesize and write clearly and persuasively.
• Expertise or familiarity with quantitative and statistical techniques and ease in compiling, analyzing and synthesizing large public datasets and primary data.
• Positive, can-do attitude; sound qualitative and analytical skills.

Language Proficinecy:

• Excellent oral and written language skills in English, including effective listening and strong verbal and written communication abilities.

Source: https://apply.workable.com/international-water-management-institute/j/379FA0291D/