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Union of Concerned Scientists

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1969

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

🔬 Science

Non-profit • Social Impact • Science

Union of Concerned Scientists is a member-supported nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting a safer and healthier world. The organization focuses on addressing critical issues such as climate change, energy, transportation, food sustainability, and nuclear threat prevention. They work to couple scientific research with advocacy, aiming to influence decision-makers and inform the public. Their mission includes promoting climate accountability, transforming transportation systems, ensuring healthy food and farms, and advocating for science-based policies. By conducting research, fighting misinformation, and mobilizing supporters, the Union of Concerned Scientists seeks to make impactful changes toward a more just and equitable future for all.

📋 Description

• Contribute interdisciplinary analysis and strategic thinking across the broader initiative. • Collaborate with colleagues across UCS to identify opportunities to strengthen public-interest science institutions. • Maintain continuity across the Reimagining Federal Science for Policy initiative by tracking emerging work, connecting collaborators, identifying opportunities for coordination, and documenting lessons learned. • Support organizational learning, evaluation, and strategic planning related to the initiative. • Coordinate work across the Climate Reserve and Reimagining Federal Science for Policy initiatives, as appropriate. • Develop analyses and practical recommendations that strengthen the institutions responsible for producing, governing, communicating, evaluating, and applying climate change knowledge. • Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness, legitimacy, equity, and public value of climate change knowledge institutions. • Develop practical frameworks and recommendations that inform future governance, public investment, institutional reform, and implementation. • Develop and evaluate practical approaches that strengthen climate change knowledge institutions under changing political conditions. • Identify opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers, practitioners, policymakers, philanthropic organizations, civil society partners, and affected communities. • Convene and contribute to collaborative processes that advance shared learning and institutional improvement. • Build and maintain productive relationships across communities of practice. • Synthesize collaborative discussions into actionable findings and strategic recommendations. • Produce reports, briefing papers, presentations, blogs, and other written products that translate complex institutional questions into actionable insights. • Contribute to scholarly, practitioner, and public conversations through writing, presentations, and collaborative engagement. • Represent UCS at meetings, workshops, conferences, and other public forums, as appropriate. • Cultivate relationships with academic, governmental, nonprofit, philanthropic, and professional partners to advance the goals of the fellowship. • Document lessons emerging from fellowship activities and associated initiatives. • Develop recommendations that strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, institutional learning, and knowledge translation across UCS and partner organizations. • Develop documentation, recommendations, and transition materials that enable UCS and partner organizations to sustain and build upon the fellowship's work. • Share learning internally and externally to improve future work.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience demonstrating deep familiarity in the field. • Experience integrating knowledge across scientific disciplines, governance, public policy, and practice. • Demonstrated ability to conduct interdisciplinary research, analysis, or evaluation. • Deep experience with federal climate science institutions, science-policy processes, or related knowledge systems. • Excellent analytical, writing, and verbal communication skills. • Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex information for diverse audiences. • Experience building collaborative relationships across disciplines, sectors, or institutions. • Demonstrated commitment to advancing equity and the public interest through science. • Strong organizational, project management, and strategic thinking skills. • An advanced degree in a relevant field may be preferred depending on final position classification. Comparable experience may be substituted where appropriate.

🏖️ Benefits

• Regular business hours may vary depending on the time zone. Occasional evening or weekend work may be required to support meetings, travel, or time-sensitive activities. • Occasional travel to conferences, workshops, partner meetings, UCS retreats, and other organizational events as required. • UCS is an equal opportunity employer actively seeking to diversify its staff. We’re dedicated to broadening opportunities for individuals from demographic groups that are historically underrepresented in the sciences and in environmental advocacy. We’re also committed to building an inclusive workplace culture where talented people of widely diverse backgrounds can thrive. We believe the inclusion of culturally diverse perspectives will improve our work and produce better societal and environmental outcomes for all, including historically disenfranchised communities. • This is a full-time, one-year remote position, contingent upon the availability of grant funding. Candidates should understand that employment will be limited to one year, in accordance with the project timeline and funding constraints. For those who meet all position requirements, the salary is $109,232.02. UCS offers excellent benefits and a rewarding work environment. • Information about the organization is available at http://www.ucsusa.org. • Comparable training and/or experience can be substituted for degrees when appropriate. • Our team is made up of a dedicated group of researchers, scientists, communicators, campaigners, and advocates from wide-ranging backgrounds and experiences. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and a collaborative and supportive work environment where all staff can thrive. We continually strive to create an environment that is a welcoming place for the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, parents, empty-nesters, and people with a wide variety of interests and backgrounds. • To Apply: We know there are great candidates who won’t check all of these boxes, and we also know you might bring important skills that we haven’t considered. If that’s you, don’t hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself. Please upload a cover letter and resume. In the cover letter, please confirm that the listed salary meets your expectations, and please include links to past research publications and media outputs in the resume when available. Upload materials in Word or PDF format only. No phone calls, please. • This position is in the bargaining unit. • Covid Mandate for New Hires: For in-office roles, UCS employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Employees are considered fully vaccinated as defined by the CDC. All new hires who will be reporting to an office location must provide notice of their vaccination status and vaccination documentation on or before their first day of work. For all others, UCS strongly encourages full vaccinations among its employees, up to and including booster shots, even if working remotely. All new employees must comply with the mandatory vaccination requirements outlined in UCS policies as soon as practicable. Union of Concerned Scientists will notify candidates for employment of the requirements of this policy before the start of employment. • Deadline: Until filled.