Urban Climate Resilience Lead and Principal Researcher
Hybrid (within or outside the UK)
(International maximum + or – 4 hours from GMT/BST)
About Us
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is a policy and action research organisation promoting sustainable development and linking local priorities to global challenges. We are UK-based with offices in London and Edinburgh and work across five continents with some of the world’s most vulnerable people to strengthen their voices in the decision-making arenas that affect them. With more than 150 members of staff working with associates and partners around the world, IIED has been at the forefront of evidence-based policymaking in sustainable development for over 50 years.
In May 2024, we will be launching our new strategy: A Manifesto for a Thriving World. We will combine our strengths with those of other diverse organisations, forging alliances with a shared purpose and bringing forward multiple new ideas, tackling entrenched problems and achieving bold propositions.
We are now looking for an Urban Climate Resilience Lead and Principal Researcher to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 35 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £64,814 – £80,654, depending on experience, plus benefits
- 25 days' annual leave per year, increasing with service
- Closure between Christmas and New Year with additional paid holiday
- 7.5% employer's pension contributions
- An employee protection scheme offering a flexible menu of benefits
- Flexible working options
- Support for learning and development
If you are a researcher with an international reputation and superb management skills, this is the perfect opportunity to join a dynamic, geographically diverse team of people. You’ll make a global impact, enabling far-reaching effects for those most vulnerable to climate change. What’s more, this is the perfect chance to enrich your portfolio of experience and utilise your research and management skills, leading initiatives of worldwide importance.
The Role
As Urban Climate Resilience Lead and Principal Researcher, you will initiate and steer the design, development, co-ordination and implementation of large and complex research programmes.
You will develop cutting-edge knowledge, learning and research outputs that will advance the state of global understanding of urbanisation, equity and climate resilience.
Influencing specific agendas, you will catalyse coalitions of like-minded actors and organisations through programmes of public affairs, communications and convenings.
You will also design and test specific interventions as part of our approach to learning from innovations, adapting and scaling them.
Additionally, you will:
- Undertake qualitative and quantitative research
- Ensure impactful research through policy-advocacy initiatives
- Work in partnership with local and national institutions
About You
To be considered as Urban Climate Resilience Lead and Principal Researcher, you will need:
- Wide-ranging research experience, evidenced by an international reputation in your own field and a highly regarded diverse publication record
- A track record of securing funding for large projects from a wide range of donors
- Experience of working on multi-country, multi-year projects with a variety of partners
- To be well-networked with extensive experience of co-ordinating and sustaining diverse teams or collaborative networks
- Project-, budget-, M&E- and people-management skills
IIED is a hybrid working organisation and you are likely to be working from home most of the time. As such, you will need a suitable place to work and a reliable, fast internet connection.
This role is also open to those who live outside the UK, as long as you have the right to work in the country you wish to reside in. IIED will support a UK visa for this role if re-location is requested.
The salary range advertised in GBP is applicable in the UK only, and the salary offer in another country would depend on the local terms and conditions. We only use the UK salary structure to determine starting salaries, but it will not apply to salaries outside the UK thereafter.
The closing date for this role is 30th April 2024.
Please note as part of the interview process, shortlisted candidates will be expected to prepare a presentation.
Other organisations may call this role Senior Researcher, Research Lead, Principal Research Officer, or Urban Climate Resilience Lead.
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