Sustainability Expert in Critical Raw Materials
Internship offer
Applications are accepted until December 2021
Responsibilities
New technological developments, such as low-carbon energy technologies, electric vehicles, and digitalization, ask for the increased use of raw materials that are subject to supply risks or high environmental/social impacts: so-called Critical Raw Materials. As part of an international partnership, WeLOOP is developing an online decision-making tool that helps companies to identify potential supply risks and create stable and sustainable supply chains. The candidate will closely collaborate with the team’s scientific expert and web developer and contribute to the development of the tool via the interpretation, collection, and transformation of data from scientific literature, policy reports, and reports of (inter)national organizations, such as the World Bank, United Nations Environmental Program, and geological surveys.
Your responsibilities
Data collection and formatting to feed the decision-making model from scientific and grey literature
Contribution to the understanding and communication of data gaps, data uncertainty, and data quality
Contribution to the refinement of the decision-making model that forms the basis of the web-tool
Formulation of a strategy to allow future maintenance of the tool considering data updates
Contribution to other ongoing projects and day-to-day business activities of WeLOOP
Requirements
Higher education, specializing environmental, economic, or social sustainability
Fluency in English, written and oral
Team player, to be able to work autonomously and dedicated
Offer’s details
Type of contract
Internship to be filled as soon as possible
Internship salary
900€/month
Location
Lambersart or Bordeaux, France
Education level
Master-level (engineering school or university) with a specialty in environment
Duration
Internship, 3 to 6 months