Intern, GHG Protocol Corporate Team, Washington

Overview

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol at the World Resources Institute is looking for a highly motivated full-time intern to join the GHG Protocol Corporate Team. The intern will provide research and administrative support for various GHG Protocol projects related to corporate greenhouse gas accounting including the development of guidance on financed emissions and an avoided emissions standard.

The GHG Protocol ( www.ghgprotocol.org ) is the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. The GHG Protocol, a decade-long partnership between the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, is working with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective standards and programs for tackling climate change.

Responsibilities

The GHG Protocol corporate team intern would provide research and assistance for several projects. The intern would gain experience in the following areas:

• Providing research assistance to GHG Protocol's staff, potentially analysis and coordination support for process to develop emissions guidance for the financial sector and avoided emissions associated with good and services.
• Drafting and editing working papers, fact sheets, journal articles, blogs and presentations on issues relevant to WRI's strategy.
• Supporting outreach and communication efforts for the project including the GHG Protocol newsletter, website and social media.
• Assisting in organizing advisory committee, technical working group, and public stakeholder workshops

Qualifications

• Ideal candidate will have obtained or is in the process of obtaining a masters in a relevant field such as environmental science, engineering, policy, finance or economics. Highly qualified undergraduates are also encouraged to apply.
• Excellent research, writing and oral communication skills are required
• Familiarity with greenhouse gas accounting is desirable
• Proficiency in an additional language is a plus
• Experience working with companies is a plus
• Ability to work well in a team and handle multiple priorities
• Final candidate will be required to take a writing test

Salary and Benefits

This is an unpaid 6 month position. Preferred start day by May 2014, but can be flexible for qualified candidates.

Location

Washington, DC

Qualified applicants should apply online at www.wri.org/careers. All applications must be submitted online through this career portal in order to be formally considered.

The World Resources Institute ( http://www.wri.org/wri) is an environmental and development research and policy organization that creates solutions to protect the Earth and improve people's lives. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, it is WRI's policy to recruit, hire, and provide opportunities for advancement in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, sexual preference, parental status, or disability. WRI's global agenda requires a staff that is diverse – with respect to race, gender, cultural, and international background. Diverse perspectives and experience enhance the way WRI selects and approaches issues, as well as the creativity and applicability of WRI's policy research and analysis. WRI, therefore, encourages applications from U.S. minorities, persons from other countries (especially developing nations), and from women of all backgrounds.

About WRI

The World Resources Institute is a global environmental think tank that goes beyond research to put ideas into action. We work with governments, companies, and civil society to build solutions to urgent environmental challenges. WRI's transformative ideas protect the earth and promote development because sustainability is essential to meeting human needs and fulfilling human aspirations in the future.

Established in 1982, WRI is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization respected globally by policymakers, NGOs, and corporate leaders because of the rigorous quality, balance, and independence of its work. With its think-tank roots, WRI values innovative ideas, working collaboratively, and thinking independently. WRI employees see the results of their hard work and have the satisfaction of making a significant difference in the world.

Currently a $50 million organization with an international staff of approximately 250, WRI works with more than 400 partners in 50 countries. WRI provides objective information and practical proposals for policy and institutional change that foster environmentally sound, socially equitable development.

Values

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Innovation: To lead change for a sustainable world, WRI is creative, forward thinking, entrepreneurial, and adaptive.

Independence: WRI's effectiveness depends on work that is uncompromised by partisan politics, institutional or personal allegiances, or sources of financial support.

Urgency: WRI believes that change in human behavior is urgently needed to halt the accelerating rate of environmental deterioration.

Independence: Our effectiveness depends on work that is uncompromised by partisan politics, institutional or personal allegiances, or sources of financial support.

Respect: Our relationships are based on the belief that all people deserve respect.

Approach

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Focus on Results: WRI organizes all of its work to produce powerful and practical solutions, strategies and tools, policies and partnerships.

Analytical Excellence: WRI identifies problems, drivers of change, economic incentives, and consequences to arrive at comprehensive, incentive-based, practical solutions.

Partnerships: WRI works with scientists, governments, businesses, NGOs, and international institutions worldwide to create incentives and pressure for change.

Communications: WRI fosters change by disseminating their solutions and ideas to targeted audiences.