Le LIEPP recherche pour le projet JET Cities : Boosting Green Workforce in Cities

The Laboratory for interdisciplinary evaluation of public policies (LIEPP) seeks to appoint a post doctoral researcher in urban governance, comparative public policy research and climate policies to support Dr Charlotte HALPERN in the JET Cities project “Boosting Green Workforce in Cities”, funded under the « HORIZON-RIA-SGA-NZC-101121530 » and led by the City of Marseille. 

CONTEXT

Some hundred cities have been selected by the EU Mission Climat-Neutral and Smart Cities as part of the Horizon Europe 2021-2027 program. In this context, they benefit from the financial and technical support of the “Net Zero Cities” platform to explore and implement initiatives to foster city/metropolitan-wide transformative change and which are also transferable to many other European cities.

Within this framework, the project “JET Cities : Boosting Green Workforce in Cities” brings together five French local authorities – Marseille, Lyon, Paris, Grenoble Alpes Métropole and Dijon Métropole – and two academic partners – LIEPP and CEREQ. The JetCities project aims at accelerating the transformation of the economy, employment policies and professional integration to support the green transition and achieve climate neutrality by 2030. Together the five city partners host 3,500,00 jobs. Their annual carbon emissions amount to 37MtCO2e, that is 6% of the French carbon footprint. Between 7 and 11% of existing jobs in these 5 cities are considered threatened by the ecological transition. As part of their commitment to achieve a just transition towards carbon neutrality, the transformation of the workforce is a priority, as well as the professional integration of the most vulnerable groups of the population. 

Together JET Cities partners will seek to 1) establish key knowledge and foundations for designing efficient public economic, employment and integration policies, 2) experiment with various approaches to promote green jobs and strengthening public support tools for professional integration, 3) promote their dissemination to other European cities. 

During 18 months, the LIEPP team led by Dr. Halpern at Sciences Po will support the 5 cities’ efforts in the following way: 

• Develop a shared diagnosis of local barriers and resources to develop transformative city-wide public economic, employment and integration initiatives to support the green transition and deliver on climate neutrality by 2030 ; 
• Establish a set of (existing and new) quantitative and qualitative indicators to monitor progress, both at project level and at city level; 
• By collecting evidence and knowledge, encourage a continuous process of stock-taking at city level, with the aim to provide guidance for cities at project level and beyond (regional/national/EU levels)
• Draw on the Monitoring Evaluation Learning  (MEL) approach to support cities in monitoring progress, evaluating outcomes and learning from these initiatives while at the same time contributing to capacity building and strengthening their role the field of employment and integration policies to support the green transition.
• Establish a national network of practitioners and researchers on Cities / metropolises and transition professions to support the increase in knowledge and support initiatives that other cities may wish to implement subsequently. 

JOB DESCRIPTION

The person appointed will perform the following tasks under the supervision of the PI, involving: 

1. Providing research input (data collection, original dataset and analysis) about transformative initiatives in the field of employment, integration and training policies to support the green transition (WP6)
2. Completing the existing dataset with desk analysis and a selected number of group and /or face-to-face interviews. 
3. Support city partners with the delivery of policy and operational objectives at both project and city level (WP2-WP5)
4. Develop and apply a MEL approach to leverage lessons learned from partner cities to scale up in other French and EU cities (WP6)
5. Work package management, including contributing to project activities, meetings and dissemination activities
6. Contribute to any scientific management and administration tasks arising from the research project, incl. reports and high-level policy documents (e.g., policy briefs, project summary, etc.). 

We welcome applications from excellent candidates with a PhD degree and strong research experience in one or more of following areas: urban governance, public policy research, climate policies. 

Work environment – The person employed will be: 

• Based at LIEPP, at Sciences Po in Paris, and fully integrated in the JETCities consortium
• Willing to work in a European and French environment and under the supervision of the PI.
• Willing to travel. 

Qualifications, knowledge, and experience – essential: 

• An excellent PhD degree in political science or sociology, or close discipline, with a major in urban studies, comparative public policy research or climate policies. 
• Excellent writing skills and proficiency in English and French (written and spoken).

Applications should be sent by March 1st to Charlotte Halpern: charlotte.halpern@sciencespo.fr 

You will be asked to provide a CV, a covering letter (no longer than 2 pages) and the names and contact information of two reference persons. 

Candidates short-listed for interview (online) will be contacted during the week of March 3rd Interviewees will be asked to take a practical test, which is intended to replicate in a somewhat realistic (but shorter fashion) some of the real tasks that she or he will need to complete if appointed to the position. 

They will be informed of the results no later than March 10^th.