Overview
The World Bank Group seeks interns to contribute to the Knowledge for Change Program: Building Green Project. Interns will conduct desk research on building energy efficiency regulations and codes, analyze data, and support project activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Undertake extensive desk research on Building Energy Code standards, their stringency and coverage, and enforcement mechanisms for a specified subset of countries.
- Analyze and assess the data on a country-by-country basis, converting and standardizing into comparable units of measurement as needed until a final, verified country profile is produced.
- Undertake recruitment on new contributors, survey distribution for data collection, follow-up with contributors to obtain completed questionnaires for assigned economies.
- Identify and engage with technical experts in order to develop a contributor database.
- Ad hoc assignments, including background research on building energy certification schemes, drafting briefings, presentations, and regulatory analyses.
- Interface as needed with other industry and corporate departments across WBG.
- Producing graphs, descriptive statistics and/or regression outputs to make collected data more understandable and contextualized.
- Provide general support to the project, as required.
Required Experience
- Relevant professional/academic experience related to environmental sustainability, energy transition or urban planning preferred.
- Experience with cleaning and formatting large data sets.
Qualifications
Applicant must be enrolled in an advanced degree in Public Policy, Energy Policy, Economics, Environmental Studies or relevant fields as considered by the recruiting team.
