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WRI’s Markets & Enterprise Program seeks a part-time, energetic intern to join the Water Risk Team. The Markets and Enterprise Program seeks to direct the flow of capital towards sustainable businesses, doing research and building tools to assess and integrate environmental risk and opportunities into business strategy and investment decisions. Water scarcity, partly driven by climate change, is an area where the Program seeks to provide company managers and investors with more detailed and actionable information.
The intern will play a key research role in the Aqueduct project, which measures and maps companies’ and investors’ water risk.
More specifically, the intern will analyze trends in different drivers of water-related business risks for the Murray-Darling, Orange-Senqu, Yangtze and Colorado River basin.
Aqueduct will be an online database and suite of applications to quantify, aggregate and map the physical, regulatory and socio-economic components of water risks. Companies and their investors are increasingly recognizing the importance of these risks leveraging their key competencies to decrease their water dependency and/or increase their water security. Aqueduct is not only an online global database with localized water risk information, but also seeks to become the global standard for measuring and reporting geographic water risk.
Aqueduct will enable:
- Companies to better map and manage water risk for their global operations and supply chains at the local level,
- Governments and organizations to develop more effective investment programs and policy reforms, and
- Investors to more accurately assess companies’ water risks.
The intern will play a key role in expanding Aqueduct to river basins around the world.
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| Responsibilities: |
- Work with the Water Risk Team, specifically the Associate I analyst, to locate, import and analyze water risk data and GIS shape files from a variety of sources
- Review relevant water risk and policy literature and speak with relevant experts
- Collaborate in managing large databases of water related information, including new data entries, data updates and metric calculations.
- Geo-code hydrological, socioeconomic, water demand data, and news articles,
- Basic computer programming tasks,
- Contribute to the Aqueduct website and outreach efforts , and
- Support the Water Risk Team as required.
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| Qualifications: |
- Demonstrated understanding of technical and policy related water issues
- Demonstrated understanding of GIS tools, and database management,
- Experience with excel, databases, statistical software, GIS software, and C-Programming preferred
- Strong interest in global hydrology and water policy,
- Knowledge of Chinese and computer programming preferred,
- Excellent research, communication and presentation skills,
- Excellent command of English and demonstrated writing skills,
- Ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner,
- Results focused, organized, comfortable working independently within a collaborative research team, and
- Undergraduate degree in finance, economics, business, hydrology, computer science, physical or human geography, engineering, or related field.
Location: Washington, DC 20002. Start date: August through December 2011.
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