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22 JAN, 2022

Primary Purpose of The Role:

Are you a detail-oriented, inquisitive individual who enjoys coming up with innovative solutions? Then, this going to be a right platform for you. You will be conducting an in-depth research on emerging technologies and working policies of various energy management and sustainability projects and articulating their impacts in writing and supporting the core lead technical members and other internal stakeholders with distinctive insights.

Key Areas of Engagement:

Business Responsibility & Sustainability Reporting

ESG & Green Financing

Sustainability Reporting & Ranking Frameworks

Climate-related Financial Risks

Energy, Water, & Carbon Accounting

National & International Credit Trades

Key Accountabilities:

  • Researching and identifying solutions for assigned issues.
  • Reporting and presenting market insights to support the core technical team and highlight distinctive point of view.
  • Generating weekly progress reports and provide daily status update.
  • Demonstrating professionalism, ethical conduct and competence.

Key Challenges:

  • This role requires a steep learning curve, and ability to handle long working hours.
  • This role requires strict discipline of time management & work delivery.
  • Since we are a start-up, everything is DIY here. You may have to take up additional responsibilities (other than what is mentioned above) from time to time based on the organisational requirement.
  • Graduate, post-graduate or undergraduate in engineering, design, literature, liberal studies, commerce, & sciences

Required Skills:

We will consider that you have already learnt the basics of your concerned specialization field. This will help continuing with a smooth learning curve.

Personal

  • Good verbal and written communication skills.
  • Good liaising and interpersonal skills.
  • Scientific and analytical ability.
  • Commercial awareness and an understanding of business.
  • Good task performer typically under own direction, to ensure meeting goals on time.
  • Strong inter-organizational skills along with qualities like honesty, empathy, good ethics, attentiveness, critical thinking and willingness for skill upgradation.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team with positive & pro-active attitude towards organizational goals.
  • Presence of discretion, confidentiality and professionalism at all times.
  • Advanced report writing & presentation making skills are mandatory.

Academic

  • Adept at problem-solving, capable of identifying and resolving issues in a timely manner.
  • Capable of effectively interpreting information, presenting numerical data in a resourceful manner, and moderately skilled at relevant market analysis.
  • General understanding of the energy, water & carbon markets.
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation surrounding energy efficiency and carbon emissions.
  • IT skills, including professional level proficiency of Office Productivity Software.

Track

Standard internship period: 2 months

Apprenticeship would be offered to a few selected high performing candidates at the discretion of the management. The apprenticeship would be fully paid one with additional project based incentives.

If we confidently find you worthy and productive, then we shall be happy to provide you with PPO (Pre-placement offer).

Key Take-aways:

What’s in it for you:

  • Intelligence
  • Education
  • Experience
  • Directions
  • Financial Incentives

You would be directly interacting with the vertical leaders and respective experts in the field. The duration and quality of such interactions would solely be dependent upon your effort and interest towards your responsibilities. We prefer to water the plant that grows fastest.

If your research is publishable, we would publish them in our newsletters, blogs, and whitepapers in your name with full due credit - something which would add immense value to your professional credibility & profile.

As a research intern, you would be part of any of the academic & research projects of the organisation. We prefer not to involve interns for any kind of commercial and live projects if we do not find them extremely capable of handling such. However, if you can make it to the apprenticeship, you would be assigned to the actual projects team to work on live projects.

Mode & Compensation

The principal mode of the internship would be remote or in-person.

A fixed stipend + performance based incentives would be offered during the internship. The fixed stipend would vary based on remote or in-person engagement. The exact amount of fixed stipend would be decided based upon the credibility and capability of the applicant.

We believe that there are no free lunches in this world. We would offer incentives for your deliveries which would be used by us in any sort of commercial projects.

Application Procedure

If you are willing to apply for the above position,

  • Demonstrate your professional aspirations through a presentation (Google Slide/PowerPoint, or anything of that sorts)
  • Make a 2-minute video to tell us your story and what drives you
  • Mail the two of them to ‘career@ewx.co.in’ with a meaningful cover e-mail, preferably with bottom-line up front first.

If you have been writing/creating/publishing in either online or offline platforms on your favoured topics, do provide a link to those so we can review those.

If you are applying directly through your College/Institution or through institutional reference, mention the name of the institution in the e-mail subject and mark a copy to the institution, if required.

We make a point to reply to the applying candidates regardless of their status of induction. We expect the same level of courtesy from your end also.

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