What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Fellow, Climate Equity position at Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law?
At Berkeley Law, we are committed to excellence in education and scholarship, as well as equality of opportunity. We believe we have a responsibility to use our substantial intellectual capital to help solve real-world problems and to create a more just society through clinics, research, and policy engagement. We believe that a Berkeley Law degree is a tool for change, both locally and globally, and that we should be educating the leaders of tomorrow. We maintain an environment that nurtures academic and personal growth, respects a diversity of ideas, and stimulates independent thought and critical reasoning.
The Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) is based at the UC Berkeley School of Law, which benefits from one of the leading environmental law programs in the nation. Building on UC Berkeley’s history of and commitment to research and public service, CLEE leverages the intellectual resources of Berkeley faculty and students in furtherance of applied research in a variety of environmental and energy law and policy areas. CLEE’s research priorities include combating climate change, advancing sustainable energy, addressing water allocation and management challenges, and sustaining healthy oceans, among other pressing environmental and energy challenges.
The Senior Fellow, Climate Equity will take the lead on CLEE’s current portfolio of equity- focused projects, including work on community benefits and climate infrastructure investment, and identify opportunities to expand and sustain the Center’s work in this area. The Senior Fellow will develop research partnership at UC Berkeley and with external organizations; identify funding opportunities; and work with the Executive Director to guide CLEE’s strategic initiatives in this area.
Primary Responsibilities:
The Senior Fellow, Climate Equity will:
- Conduct research on climate justice and equity, including:
- Analyze existing programs and policies to identify opportunities to scale transformative climate investment. This will include conducting interviews, literature review, and using other research approaches to draw lessons and model practices from existing programs and policies to scale community-led climate action.
- Based on review of existing models, identify approaches to community-led governance, including models for robust community-benefits, community ownership, and generational wealth building in the transition to a carbon neutral economy.
- Synthesize existing and original research to develop and describe policies, tools, and frameworks to advance community benefits in climate infrastructure investment.
- Develop a portfolio of policy scholarship focused on environmental justice, equity, and/or just transition to advance policy innovation and implementation.
- Support other researchers, including meeting with research fellows to support research progress; providing fellow mentorship and professional development; and recruitment of new research fellows.
- Identify funding opportunities to expand CLEE’s research portfolio focused on environmental and climate justice and equity and provide input and support on proposal development.
- Represent CLEE to diverse audiences including policymakers, the media, and partner communities and organizations.
- Support CLEE’s communication and outreach activities across a range of media and work products, including drafting op-eds and blog posts; materials for the CLEE website; contributing to newsletters, annual reports, and other organizational materials.
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