Program Manager- Urban Development

WRI India is seeking a Program Manager for Urban Development in Bengaluru. The role involves leading projects on sustainable urban transport and policy reforms, collaborating with various stakeholders, and conducting research and analysis to influence urban planning. The candidate should be passionate about urban development, capable of managing project deliverables, and willing to travel. The position focuses on fostering equitable and environmentally sound urban solutions.
Job Description
About Us
WRI India, an independent knowledge organization registered as India Resources Trust, provides objective information and practical proposals to foster environmentally sound and socially equitable development. Through research, analysis, and recommendations, WRI India puts ideas into action to build transformative solutions to protect the earth, promote livelihoods, and enhance human well-being.


Know more: wri-india.org


Program Overview For Sustainable Cities And Transport


WRI India's Integrated Transport Program supports India's decarbonization journey through effective, equitable, and inclusive mobility solutions. The program focuses on advancing sustainable urban transport, including electrification of public transport, clean air initiatives, and hydrogen economy. It emphasizes strategic research, policy support, and capacity building to enable systemic changes at the sub-national level and accelerate electric mobility adoption.


Job Highlight
We are seeking a creative and multi-talented candidate for position of Manager to undertake initiatives on urban development and policy reforms in its WRI India office. Reporting to the Head, Urban Development, you will lead projects, research and engagements that will influence positive transformation of urban areas in the country. The projects will include working with governments, professionals, private sector, civic groups and other stakeholders to formulate the urban planning and urban design interventions focused on solving the problems in a city and can be scaled-up in other contexts.


You will consider issues of sustainable development, around socio-economic and environmental well-being of the people as basic approach to solve the problems. You will engage with governments and private stakeholders to collect base material and details to help towards conducting project work.


You should be passionate about Indian urban development and self-driven towards influencing positive change in the real world. You will be involved in leading the work on assigned projects related to integrated planning. This includes conducting research, liaising with partners, government agencies and experts, undertaking analysis and synthesise solutions towards project deliverables.


You will develop deep understanding of the local urban development context and help the team identify impactful positive changes that need to be achieved in the context of current urbanization. You should be hands-on and equally good in conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis, prepare clearly written reports and communication material. You should be energetic and agile, willing to respond quickly, outcome-oriented, team player, willing to travel at short notice and able to engage with partners and stakeholders.


You will also assist the Urban Development team identify opportunities, levers and set the agenda in the cities of engagement, across other projects or program as relevant.


What Will You Do
Co-ordination of project work








Manage and lead all the project deliverables related work as per standards and expectations of WRI India.


Prepare technical documents for projects including data collection, conduct surveys, compilation, analysis, write reports and develop presentations.


Coordinate with State and Local government agencies, private companies, local communities, experts, NGOs etc. to get inputs for projects.


Edit reports, prepare drawings, general graphics and infographics, etc.


Support WRI India in identifying and undertaking new research areas and projects related to urban development as required by the team.



Communications and partnership






Communicate and engage with stakeholders, partners and collaborators as needed and appropriate from time to time for delivering assigned project goals, outputs and outcomes


Communicate closely with WRI India internal team members towards meeting objectives of the project and constant progress reporting.


Coordinate and schedule meetings regarding projects, make presentations and take lead in conducting stakeholder consultations.


Contribute to internal and external communications and media such as blogs, articles, brochures and web content.



Research






Lead development of process guides, toolkits, frameworks and or support adapt existing ones


Incorporate and support attention to gender, poverty, intersectional vulnerabilities



What Will You Need






Post-graduation in urban studies/ ur