The position serves in a leadership role as both the organization’s Senior Counsel as well as its Director of Water Resources with a focus on Congressional and administration advocacy for water conservation policies essential to hunters and anglers.
The position is responsible for the strategic and tactical leadership and issue-based advocacy to influence public policy via the following three-pronged approach:
The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University is seeking candidates for a postdoctoral position to work on social science dimensions of municipal land-use planning in the Hudson River Estuary. The postdoctoral associate will join a dynamic intellectual community in the Center for Conservation Social Sciences while also grounding their work in a longstanding Cornell partnership with the Hudson River Estuary Program.
The Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont seeks outstanding candidates for the position of Program Manager, a key member of the Gund Institute’s leadership team. The Program Manager provides overall leadership and management for the Gund Institute, a leading research center focused on real-world solutions to urgent global issues in environment and sustainability.
The Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability (oTIS) directs the policies and practices that improve quality of life in all of Philadelphia’s communities through safe and sustainable infrastructure. oTIS leads a portfolio of departments, including Streets Transportation, Streets Sanitation, the Office of Sustainability, and Philadelphia Water Department (PWD), to provide cost-effective quality services with a focus on the resident.
The Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability (oTIS) directs the policies and practices that improve quality of life in all of Philadelphia’s communities through safe and sustainable infrastructure. oTIS leads a portfolio of departments, including Streets Transportation, Streets Sanitation, the Office of Sustainability, and Philadelphia Water Department (PWD), to provide cost-effective quality services with a focus on the resident.
The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability (OOS) works with partners around the City to improve the quality of life in all Philadelphia neighborhoods, reduce the City’s carbon emissions, and prepare Philadelphia for a hotter, wetter future. OOS works to implement Greenworks, the City’s comprehensive sustainability plan. The Office of Sustainability houses the Energy Office and the Food Policy Advisory Council.
As our buildings program director, you will further the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) mission of reducing energy and carbon emissions through whole-building solutions that significantly improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings and new construction. You will help create a strategic vision for the buildings program, establish priorities for the program, and oversee buildings research projects.
ACEEE seeks a senior research analyst to engage in research, policy development, and outreach on federal energy efficiency policy in the United States. This is an exciting position for someone looking to have real-world impact by advancing effective programs and policies that benefit consumers and the climate. The person in this position will coordinate and steer a variety of research and outreach projects, working closely with energy efficiency experts in the federal policy program, other ACEEE policy and technical teams, and external organizations.
The Center for Progressive Reform (CPR) is seeking an energetic, organized, and dedicated researcher and advocate to join our staff as a Senior Policy Analyst on Worker Justice. We are looking for candidates who have a deep commitment to inclusive and progressive environmental and economic policies that address historic and contemporary inequities.
California leads the nation in implementing a wide range of “climate justice” initiatives as part of its multifaceted climate strategy. We are seeking a policy analyst to investigate how California’s climate justice programs have functioned in practice, considering, in particular, its participatory structures and the efficacy of the state’s governance approach.
Recycling and Materials Management Intern
Cascadia Consulting Group, Inc.
Position located in Seattle, Washington
Position Overview
Cascadia is currently seeking a Climate and Sustainability Associate to support, lead, and expand our sustainability and climate change adaptation and mitigation projects in California. Specifically, the Associate will:
The Environment Program at the Hewlett Foundation (foundation) develops and implements grantmaking strategies that engage multiple sectors, geographies, and philanthropic levers. While program officers on the Environment team each manage distinct grant portfolios, they also operate within a matrixed and collaborative structure, affording the ability to contribute to, and support the whole of, the Environment Program’s strategic approach.
As a Center Director within the Southwest Biological Science Center, some of your specific duties will include:
Takachar’svision is to dramatically increase the amount of biomass (crop and forest residues) economically converted into useful products. Our impacts include income and job creation in rural areas, as well as mitigation of CO2 emissions and air pollution associated with conventional open-air biomass residue burning. In places like California, improved vegetation management of non-merchantable residues may also mitigate the risks of catastrophic wildfires.
For over 20 years, Better World Group Advisors (BWG) has been behind some of the nation’s boldest clean transportation, climate policies, and environmental strategies. We work across all sectors to come up with bold, transformative strategies that address complex problems. Our clients—philanthropies, non-governmental organizations, and local and state government agencies – turn to us for our ability to craft and implement creative strategies, convene diverse stakeholders and build consensus towards equitable and sustainable outcomes.
Marin County is widely recognized as an award-winning leader in addressing the unprecedented challenges of sea-level rise, achieved through creativity, innovation, and extraordinary collaboration with science, educational, engineering and advocacy organizations. The Planner will join a dynamic team responsible for developing, updating, and implementing planning programs including but not limited to a Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategy for West Marin, the Safety Element of the Countywide Plan, the Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, the Local Coastal Program and the Development Code.
The Center for Biological Diversity believes the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature — to the existence of a vast diversity of wild animals, plants, and people. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law, activism, and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters, and climate that humans, other species, and all communities need to survive and thrive.
The Program Director (PD) will report to the Office of the Vice President for Research. The PD will facilitate and support the Planet Texas 2050 Research Grand Challenge leadership team in maintaining a program-wide vision and strategic direction; develop and maintain relationships and partnerships with groups inside and outside the university strategically positioning Planet Texas 2050 to meet its defined goals; support and drive thought leadership by facilitating the development of scholarly outputs, convenings, and communications and thoughtful assessment of outcomes and impact; coordin
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