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Project staff vacancy

Job Title :  Project Research Scientist/Manager

Type of Employment :  Project Staff Contract 

No. of Position(s) :

IITB Project Recruitment: 

Project title: Improving Reliability of Energy Service Supply withDemand-side Investments: What Role for Energy Efficiency and BatteryStorage?

About project: 

This project investigates how super-efficient appliances paired with lowcost battery storage can be designed and deployed to improve access to reliable energy

services.  This research is motivated by some exciting developments on the demand-side of electricity markets.  Our objective is to understand the relative importance of technology attributes and financing terms in determining household-level demand and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for more efficient appliances. The key aspect involves research design to experimentally check the consumers’ WTP (behavioural economics). We also aim to investigate how the adoption of more efficient appliances (with and without battery storage) impacts household electricity consumption patterns and expenditures. 

The principal investigators for this research are Meredith Fowlie (UC Berkeley), Jayendran Venkateswaran (IIT Mumbai) and Chetan Solanki (IIT Mumbai), and Ranjit Deshmukh (UC Santa Barbara). This team will enlist assistance for this research from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL), Berkeley, and Gram Power and SBPDCL.

Essential Qualifications & Experience: 

  • PhD with relevant experience
  • MTech/ME/MS/MPhil or equivalent degree with minimum 4 years relevant experience 

Relevant work experience should be in project management and research design, in conducting / coordinating field intervention projects and survey data collection, preparing project status reports, and coordination with multiple stakeholders.   Must also possess strong written and oral communication skills. Applicants must clearly and explicitly detail in their application their experience along with the specific project details, else applications will be rejected.  Accommodation on IIT Bombay campus is not available 

Job Profile: 

Project Management, Stakeholder interaction, research design, coordination of filed interventions, primary (survey) and secondary data collection and analysis. Technical Report writing. Project Status reporting. Managing and coordination with a small project team. Liaisoning with governmental and non-governmental agencies for project execution. Interaction with funding agencies and research partners. Willing to travel the project locations (Gaya, Bihar) and other locations as required for the project. 

Pay Details: 

O2 :Salary Range from Rs.50000 to Rs. 70000 (5000) + Rs.6000.00/- Out Of Campus Allowance (if applicable) p.m. 

General information: 

The position is temporary for a period of 1 year and tenable only for the duration of the project. Initial appointment will be for 89 days.
The appointment is for time bound project and the candidate is required to work mainly for the successful completion of the project. 

The selection committee may offer lower or higher designation and lower or higher salary depending upon the experience and performance of the candidate in the interview.
Candidates called for interview will be required to attend at their own expenses.

To apply,

Email your CV to jayendran@soulsiitb.in with cc to virangana@soulsiitb.in indicating your interests.