Senior Research Officer (Multilateral Processes)

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Specific technical inputs to ongoing research projects such as literature reviews, data collection and data analysis;
• Supporting research project activities or leading parts of research projects including field work, conducting interviews, holding workshops, producing written outputs and preparing reports for donors, under the supervision of a Research Fellow.
• Authoring or co-authoring research reports, policy briefs and other documents for publication
• Undertake some travel overseas for research related purposes

• Contribute to the development of expressions of interest and full project proposals;

• Liaising with and reporting to donors, managing budgets and consultants and the inputs of other project partners;
• Supervising interns and other short-term staff working within the team under the direction of a senior researcher.

• Supporting the production of communications products from research findings;
• Organising and presenting key findings to key decision-makers and stakeholders, through events and meetings;
• Disseminating research results through ODI web pages, the media, conferences, etc;
• Liaison and networking with a wide range of agencies including attending meetings on behalf of Programme and providing short meeting summaries for distribution within the team and more widely

• ODI publications and journals;
• ODI activities as discussion groups, staff meetings, working groups, interviews, research away days; and
• Intellectual exchanges with colleagues.

Person Specification

• A degree and post-graduate degree in relevant discipline (e.g. environmental economics, sustainable finance).
• Active knowledge of climate-relevant multilateral forums and processes.

• Experience supporting climate deliberations in a multilateral forum, such as the G7, G20, UNFCC, WTO or European Union.
• Some experience in policy-oriented research focused on international climate cooperation, demonstrated by publications and reports; and
• Experience in producing research outputs in a short period of time and for different audiences

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with a wide range of people and cultural awareness
• Excellent analytical and writing skills, including the ability to work with quantitative and qualitative data
• Strong presentation and networking skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritise
• Excellent IT skills (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Ability to work in a team
• Willingness and ability to travel internationally on a frequent basis, which may include overnight and weekends on occasion.
• Ability to work on own initiative and under minimal supervision, to accept responsibility and to respond with confidence to complex and evolving problems

• Fluency in a language other than English

• Positively support equality of opportunity both within ODI and externally
• Help maintain a safe working environment and take responsibility for own and colleagues’ Health and Safety
• Undertake such other duties within the scope of their post as may be asked by their manager

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