Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability Call for Application 2024

Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute based in London. Our mission is to help build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world.

The Environment and Society Centre (ESC) provides governments, businesses and societies with the information, networks and tools to tackle environmental challenges and advance the world towards a sustainable future through independent, thought-leading research.

The Environment and Society Centre houses the Sustainability Accelerator, a major initiative that champions our approach and puts sustainability at the core of Chatham House’s work. Launched in 2021, the Accelerator investigates and shares innovative ideas that enable radical shifts that allow us to prosper without exhausting our planet’s resources.

As a policy accelerator, it strives to combine the best evidence-based policymaking with the experimental approach of the entrepreneurship community, acting as a springboard for ideas and solutions to some of our biggest environmental challenges.

Your role will be critical in setting the Sustainability Accelerator's strategic direction. You will oversee and deliver the team’s multidisciplinary research approach across the intersection of sustainability with innovation and finance. You will help shape a strategy to convene sustainability change makers to build ideas, collaborate and experiment.

This role will lead in crafting engagement approaches (both in convening and research) to address sustainability challenges through innovative solutions that can be successfully implemented.

You are inspirational and full of big ideas, can develop strategies that bring together different environmental issues, and be rigorous in helping us transform ideas into action. If this sounds like you so far, please read on!

We are an equal opportunity employer, we value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics. We encourage applications from all backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to improve your experience or support you, please do not hesitate to get in touch at [email protected]

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Collaborate with the Executive Director to identify trends and strategic issues to shape the research agenda of the Sustainability Accelerator
• Lead and develop partnerships and income generation activities for all research projects
• Deliver new funding opportunities – crafting new research ideas, grant applications, and fostering new corporate relationships
• Advise the Executive Director on recruitment and resourcing to meet the goals of the Sustainability Accelerator
• Build and foster partnerships with internal and external research partners and co-create innovative research approaches that deliver recommendations for innovative solutions to environmental challenges

Delivery

• Lead the design and delivery of new projects and initiatives in collaboration with the Sustainability Accelerator team, with a particular focus on the intersection of innovation and environmental sustainability
• Author (and where appropriate co-author) succinct, policy-relevant research and analysis
• Support Chatham House’s convening by curating high-level private and public events on relevant issues
• Design engagement and research processes that enable trust building and maximise diversity of voices, expertise and perspectives
• Identify and pursue opportunities to communicate and disseminate project findings, through seminars, workshops, publications and other unique and engaging outputs

People

• Ensure that team members understand their roles and how they contribute to the wider goals of Chatham House, ensuring good practice is shared and Chatham House standards of behaviours are followed
• Collaborate across Chatham House to mainstream environmental and sustainability issues into the institute’s work
• Establish and maintain the Sustainability Accelerator’s relationships with experts, academia, businesses, governments and non-for-profit organisations to expand our reach, visibility and impact
• Maintain relationships with funders and key stakeholders, identifying engagement, partnership and funding opportunities
• Deputise for the Executive Director as required

• Table of Content
• About Chatham House
• Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability
• Aim and Benefits of Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability
• Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability Courses
• Requirements for Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Chatham House

Paris, 1919: Lionel Curtis, a British diplo­mat, delivered a barnstorming speech to the British and American delegates to the Paris Peace Conference, championing a vi­sion that was to alter the course of interna­tional politics. Curtis’s idea was for an organization whose purpose would be to foster mutual understanding of and between nations through debate, dialogue and independ­ent analysis. Bodies already existed for the advancement of science, medicine and the arts. Why not, with Europe still reeling from the First World War, create one for international relations? ... continue reading

Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability

Aim and Benefits of Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability

Benefits include approximately 37 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays and Chatham House closure days), enhanced pension scheme, employee assistance programme, life assurance, and other benefits designed to suit your personal lifestyle. All of this, in a professional, engaging, and intellectually stimulating environment.

Salary: £65,000 per annum

Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability Courses

• Sustainability / Environment

Requirements for Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability Qualification

• An established leader in shaping innovative agendas on environmental sustainability and its intersection with one or more of: finance; innovation; built environment; land economy
• Proven track record of effective communications through different mediums – and creative in identifying and delivering unique communication opportunities
• Proven experience in successfully delivering substantial initiatives or multidisciplinary programmes of work with high-impact
• A record of planning and leading research projects with tight budgets and timeframes
• A capable fundraiser with experience securing financial support from philanthropic foundations, government departments, international organisations, businesses and NGOs
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, with the ability to build positive relationships internally and with external stakeholders
• A creative problem solver, with the skills to explore new ways of thinking
• Experience working in a highly collaborative environment, partnering with colleagues, wider teams and external partners
• Demonstrable experience of leadership and team-building

Interview date, Process and Venue for Chatham House Senior Research Fellow - Innovation and Sustainability

Contract: Full-time, Permanent.

Location: Hybrid (Office/Home), minimum 2 days in the office per week.

Closing Date: Wednesday 24 January 2024. You will be notified of the status of your application within 4 weeks of the role closing.

Please note: The Job Description as outlined above will not be available once the closing date has passed. Please ensure you keep a copy for your own records.

Application Deadline

How to Apply

For more details visit: Chatham House website.