The Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) at the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy has openings for exciting, cutting edge, and problem focused Senior Research Fellow positions in public policy and/or global affairs. We are looking for candidates whose research focuses on specific topics such as climate change, biodiversity, sustainable livelihoods, water and oceans, and who are familiar with sociological, historical, and rational choice institutionalism, path dependency analysis, policy mixes, and policy design. We are also seeking candidates who are experts in with global and transnational environmental governance intuitions and processes, including policy innovations. Successful applicants will contribute to IES mission to advance “fit for purpose policy analysis”, and its emphasis on policy design capacity building and policy learning.
Successful applicants will contribute to IES’ burgeoning Climate Policy Design Lab and/or its Center for Water Policy The candidate will lead policy-relevant research projects, take responsibility for project and grant management, and contribute to stakeholder liaison and outreach of the Institute.. All candidates should have a strong willingness to contribute to IES’s mission and to engage with new topics and research tools.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and lead research projects under IES’s various research programmes
- Produce high quality research papers on topics related to IES’s core research themes suitable for publication in high-tier academic journals
- Laad the effort to grant and institute-level reporting requirements and funding proposals/applications
- Provide guidance to junior researchers
- Provide support for IES’s events and outreach activities
- Engage with policy and research communities in Singapore, Asia, and around the world
- As environmental problem solving requires integrating a diversity of knowledge and research, we welcome applicants who specialize in either qualitative or quantitative analysis.
Requirements
- PhD in Public Policy, Political Science, Global Affairs, Environmental Policy or a related field.
- A minimum of 6 years of experience in the field
- Excellent analytical skills with knowledge of: anticipatory policy design and practice, including path dependency analysis
- Preference for those with good and relevant publication records
- Excellent verbal and written English
- Good time management skills and ability to multi-task effectively
