Put your passion and skills to work, building a vital Earth – for everyone.
We’re Environmental Defense Fund, a fast-paced nonprofit with a growing staff of more than 1,000 people in nearly 30 countries. We deliver game-changing solutions that cut pollution and strengthen people’s ability to thrive despite the effects climate change is already having. We work wherever we can have the most impact, from local communities to top companies to governments worldwide, and even in space.
Position Overview
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) seeks a scientist to conduct early-stage research on innovative, impact-focused approaches to decarbonization and reducing climate warming.
As an early-stage incubator of scientific ideas and questions, the Climate Innovation group investigates promising climate solutions and technologies across sectors, from energy and industry to agriculture and natural systems. The goal is to identify technologies and system changes that can drive disproportionate climate impact, anticipate future challenges to success, and conduct key scientific investigations to create positive change.
The Scientist, Climate Innovation role identifies high leverage scientific questions and data needs in emerging areas of global relevance, generate plans to investigate them, and follow through to drive meaningful impact. The scope of past and current topics is broad, including electrical transmission, carbon dioxide removal, industrial carbon capture safety, new sensor design, and agricultural amendments. Methods usually involve identifying and building teams of experts to collaboratively address the questions. The ultimate metric of success is science that results in a positive impact on slowing climate change and its impacts.
Science and Innovation (S&I) is the engine of science at EDF. S&I provides programmatic support for all scientists at EDF and fosters relationships with scientists outside the organization. We identify key emerging scientific questions and data needs of value to the climate and act as a global leader for solutions-oriented science. The team works on projects across all EDF programs, translating basic and applied research in the natural and social sciences into actionable ideas for colleagues who are designing policies, programs, and projects.
Locations: Boulder, Washington DC, Boston, New York, Remote - US Home, San Francisco, Austin
The Scientist will conduct research and identify opportunities for real-world impacts on climate warming, emissions, and policy. We are seeing increasing numbers of innovations and solutions put forth, some well founded in science and some less so. Identifying key scientific needs to evaluate the climate impacts (and other benefits) of potential solutions and accelerating good solutions is critical for a successful transition to a sustainable world. This scientist must think at a systems level – not only asking questions in isolation, but within the broader context of systems emissions, economics, behavior, and at a scale of relevance to the global climate. The scientist needs to think creatively and broadly, across disciplines. This is a highly collaborative endeavor, and to maximize impact the scientist will be expected to actively collaborate with other scientists as well as the policy, economic, and legal teams both within EDF and externally.
The Scientist needs to be a creative thinker, interested in a wide range of innovations, and willing to learn, explore, and lead in strong collaboration with internal and external teams. This work will result in original publishable research, including with external academic collaborators, “in-house” analyses for use by other EDF staff, and other communications aimed at policy makers, journalists, and the public at large. The Scientist will report to a Senior Climate Scientist.
Compensation
Our commitment to building a vibrant culture makes EDF an exciting and meaningful place to work, as well as a more effective organization. Everyone who works here makes a difference. Won’t you join us?
EDF complies with country specific disability laws for all locations we hire in, and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please send an e-mail request to hiringaccommodations@edf.org
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