Position: Clean Transportation Transformation Program (CTTP) Intern   

Location: Our office is in Beijing but the intern can be positioned anywhere with a Wi-Fi!

Duration: 3-12 months

Capacity: 1 hours/week (at minimum)

Reports to: CTTP Program Director

Benefits: no paid salary; access to information, stakeholders and unprecedented learning environment.

Summary:

Under the supervision of Program Director, the intern’s responsibility is primarily to poof-read and review reports, policy briefs and news items (often translated from Chinese to English by our Chinese team) for ensuring the good quality of the program’s English outputs. Typically, a task of 5-20 pages’ document for proofreading and review will be given every two weeks. Capitalizing on the fresh angle the intern brings along, the intern will be encouraged to evaluate our program’s work and provide insights in order to forge continuous improvement of our projects. Capable interns would be tasked with online media posts generation, including iCET’s website, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Responsible, energetic, and fluent in English are basic requirements for qualified candidates. The ideal candidate is preferred to have a background of practice, research or management in transportation energy consumption, climate change, or air quality, who are specialized or familiar with one or more of the following areas: mobile source emissions control, vehicle fuel efficiency, new energy vehicle, and freight and logistic systems. Experiences in media communication and international NGOs are an advantage.

Essential skills & responsibilities:

•    Master’s degree or equivalent, preferably in a related field: transportation, environment, energy, climate change, economics, etc;

•    Native English speakers, preferably with a certain level of China experience and Chinese language skills will also be considered.

•    Interest and knowledge in mobile energy efficiency, air quality and climate issues.

•    Self-motivated, highly professional, fast-responder to the program’s needs (often a task of 2-3 pager will require review within 48 hours).

About iCET

The Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET), a professional think tank in the areas of clean transportation, sustainable development, and cleantech innovation, is an independent non-profit organization registered in Beijing and California. iCET’s mission is to strengthen global collaboration and provide decision makers at all levels with the urgently needed innovative solutions to solve the energy, environment, and climate crises amid our fast changing world.

Over the years, iCET has carved out a unique reputation as a leader in promoting innovative clean energy and climate policies in China and beyond. We recognize the urgency of environmental challenges and commit to the values and principles of innovation, sound scientific research, independence, and practicality. We focus on transformational changes in technologies and policies, harness private-public partnership on problem solving, embrace green lifestyle and sustainable development to cherish our planet.

We do so through three core programs: The Clean Transportation Transformation Program (CTTP, formed in 2006) is accelerating the transition to low-carbon and clean vehicles through standards, policies, technology promotion and consumer engagement; The Climate and Carbon Management Program (formed in 2008) is facilitating carbon “Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable (MRV)” Principle on the corporate and government levels through free online reporting tool and trainings; The Clean Innovation Program (formed in 2012) is creating online and offline multi-stakeholder platforms for advancing clean technology collaboration and innovation between China, U.S., Israel and beyond.

Our new project area under CTTP is dedicated to the embracement of mobile ICT sources for devising low-carbon and sustainable urban transportation policies and planning. By demonstrating live-data is useable through various feasibility studies and stakeholders’ engagement, we hope to jump-start a new generation of groundbreaking approaches to the the measurement, monitoring, and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

All of iCET’s three programs, their sub-project areas included, are inter-connected and enable innovative policy designs and breakthrough technological solutions to control, reduce and eventually eliminate emissions with unprecedented effectiveness and efficiency.