SEIY Research Associate

7 days ago


York, United Kingdom University of York Full time

Role

 

You will join SEIY’s air quality and climate change team who works internationally to support the development of integrated strategies for the mitigation of air pollution and climate change. A key focus of this research supports the activities of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Clean Air Fund (CAF) and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) related to the private sector. You will focus on working with the WEF-coordinated Alliance for Clean Air, aiming to quantify and reduce air pollutant emissions across its members, and you will engage with companies to develop air pollutant emission inventories, scenarios, and targets across their value chains. You will engage with various stakeholders, provide technical guidance, and contribute to their capacity building, and help them to develop emission inventories, mitigation scenarios and assess how these policies improve health, reduce climate change and other benefits.

Skills, Experience & Qualification needed:

PhD or equivalent experience in environmental science, or another relevant subject, which may include aspects of corporate social responsibility and private sector impacts on the environment;

An interest in the interplay between science, socio-economic impacts and development using a systems-based approach; 

An interest in supporting the capacity of different partners to develop emission scenarios and analyse mitigation strategies for air pollution and climate change;

Highly numerate and confident in manipulating large spreadsheet databases, with experience of using, and possibly developing, computer models for air pollution assessment. 

A team player, independently motivated and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills to help enhance the capacity of different company staff and / or governmental agencies.

Interview date: To be confirmed



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