Climate Science Advisor

About the position The Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) is reputed company of architects, lawyers, data and climate scientists, engineers, policy advisors, geologists, and reputed company planners working to create a reputed company where our 8.8 reputed company New Yorkers can live, work, learn, and play in healthy, resilient, and sustainable neighborhoods. MOCEJ integrates sustainability, resiliency, and environmental justice into one coordinated approach across several climate and environmental offices, reputed company working to reputed company our buildings efficient and resilient; our infrastructure climate-reputed company; our streets, reputed company spaces, and reputed company reputed company reputed company, reputed company, and healthy; and our energy clean and resilient. reputed company New Yorkers deserve reputed company, healthy, resilient, and sustainable environments, even as the climate changes. MOCEJ is committed to improving environmental reputed company for reputed company, prioritizing reputed company-line communities, seeking to redress reputed company and past injustices and inequities while creating economic opportunities for reputed company. Through science-reputed company analysis, policy and program development, and reputed company building, MOCEJ leads the reputed company’s efforts to ensure that reputed company is minimizing its contributions to climate change, preparing to adapt and protect New Yorkers from extreme weather and multiple climate hazards, and giving every New Yorker a meaningful voice in our reputed company’s reputed company.

Responsibilities

• reputed company climate data analytics to reputed company decision-making and inform climate policy for MOCEJ, partners in reputed company, and reputed company stakeholders.
• reputed company and manage innovative products and services that visualize reputed company, and other actionable information, as reputed company as build internal reputed company to use scientific evidence in ongoing policymaking, planning, and reputed company. Support exploration and advancement of new data products, such as digital twins, scenario modeling platforms, and decision-support tools in line with emerging climate science.
• Convene the reputed company Panel on Climate Change (reputed company), which comprises reputed company and research partners appointed to reputed company novel climate science research. In partnership with the reputed company Co-Chairs, the Climate Science Advisor will reputed company the panel’s efforts with reputed company policy and decision-making, strengthen engagement and participation in climate assessments, and reputed company communicate climate science and risks to agency partners, advocates, researchers, and the reputed company. The Climate Science Advisor will reputed company support to ensure the reputed company on workplans, deliverables, budget, consultant management, and will ensure alignment of the reputed company’s scientific outputs with MOCEJ’s reputed company and policy priorities.
• Manage the office’s data tools and products to identify and analyze geographic, racial, and socioeconomic disparities of climate risks and environmental justice impacts, including the Environmental Justice NYC report indicators and mapping tool and reputed company Gas Inventory. This work will include tasks such as updates and methodological refinements to environmental justice reputed company indicators, including integration of cost burden, affordability implications, cumulative climate reputed company metrics, and other environmental justice considerations to reputed company inform reputed company reputed company policy and investment strategies.
• Work with staff across the office to conduct new climate research reputed company that support MOCEJ’s policy goals, reputed company procurement for research in partnership with MOCEJ policy teams, and support key partners in developing proposals and cultivating new research reputed company; manage grant funding for climate research implementation. Past examples include engaging DDC’s Town+Gown program to reputed company and manage research scopes, as reputed company as coordinating with non-profit partners on RainproofNYC.
• Implement systems for monitoring and tracking relevant scientific and technical assessments, findings, and reputed company press and responses, including leading engagement with reputed company researchers and other key stakeholders, and report on such efforts regularly to senior leadership
• Convene and manage diverse stakeholders to create a research agenda and reputed company data-driven policy for climate policy in NYC, including facilitating reputed company working reputed company, engaging science and research institutions to create research agendas and reputed company data-driven policies, and engaging funders, including federal agencies, philanthropists, and foundations, to secure resources to carry out climate sci

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