This position will be responsible for managing the development and implementation of the Project’s specific provincial work strategy and activities, serving as the principal liaison between NRDC and local partners to ensure fruitful collaboration, quality research products and effective outreach activities in targeted provinces.
The manager position is based in NRDC’s Beijing office and will involve some travel to provinces. The managers will be an integral part of NRDC’s China Program and report to a designated leader of the Coal Consumption Cap Project.
Responsibilities
- Develop work strategies under the guidance of supervisor based on NRDC China Program’s overall goals and strategies and local needs and circumstances;
- Develop and update work plans on research topics, activities, outcomes and timelines for specific provinces;
- Identify and cultivate partners, experts, and stakeholders for provincial coal reduction and energy transition efforts;
- Manage and work with partners to prepare research proposals, budgets, contracts, etc. and to ensure high-quality and impactful products or outcomes that have practical policy relevance;
- Monitor, evaluate, and disseminate provincial research, including providing comments to researchers and organizing expert review and report release meetings;
- Prepare timely work progress reports for funders — narrative and financial, in English and Chinese, as needed; contribute to fundraising, proposal and budget development;
- May be asked to supervise junior team member(s);
- Keep abreast of relevant policy development and technology advancement and prepare briefing or analysis notes or papers as needed; and
- Represent NRDC at meetings as needed.