The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) has a summer internship opportunity in our San Francisco, CA office to work in the Roadmap program. The goal of the Roadmap Program is to help policymakers worldwide identify and understand trends in the transportation sector, assess emission impacts of different policy options, and frame plans to effectively reduce emissions of both greenhouse gases (GHGs) and local air pollutants. 

The ICCTis a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to dramatically reduce conventional pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions from transportation sector. The Council is made up of leading government regulators and experts from around the world that participate as individuals based on their experience with air quality and transportation issues. The ICCT promotes best practices and comprehensive solutions to improve vehicle emissions and efficiency, increase fuel quality and sustainability of alternative fuels, reduce pollution from the in-use fleet, and curtail emissions from international goods movement. ICCT’s dynamic and diverse staff supports the council from offices in Washington, DC and San Francisco, California.

Position Details

The Roadmap program relies on a spreadsheet-based model that estimates transportation emissions to 2050 by country and mode for multiple policy scenarios. The model serves as the main tool to assist key partners and agencies with transportation emissions calculation models, methods and data, and to develop reports and presentations that assess the effects of different policies on transportation emissions.

The specific activities of this internship will be to: (1) compare model parameters, algorithms and results with those from other global and national models, (2) update and validate transportation data for multiple countries and modes, and (3) develop a report summarizing the data and result comparisons. Other activities are possible depending on programmatic needs and intern’s capabilities and interests. This internship will provide potential interns with the opportunity to learn about transportation emission calculation methods and transportation data.

Qualifications

• Advanced MS Excel skills;
• Familiarity with other programming skills (VBA, Python and etc) is preferred;
• Familiarity with transportation emission calculation methods, and transportation data sources;
• Excellent research, analytic, quantitative, and writing skills;
• Proficiency in English.

Timeline

The intern is expected to work full-time (preferably) or part-time for 12 weeks through the summer months. The location of the internship is the ICCT office in San Francisco, CA, located in the financial district above the Montgomery BART station. The internship will be paid monthly, salary commensurate with experience and education - $1,900-$2,100 for undergraduate students, $2,100-$2,300 for graduate students and $2,300-$2,600 for doctoral students.

Application

Please send your resume, a cover letter summarizing your qualifications and experiences, a short writing or project sample, along with name and contact information of three references (letters not necessary) to internships@theicct.org. Please indicate that you are applying to the “Roadmap” internship.