Openings (last update February 7, 2023)
Based at the Yale School of the Environment, YPCCC conducts scientific research on public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences, and behavior, and the underlying psychological, cultural, and political factors that influence them. We also engage the public in climate change science and solutions, in partnership with governments, media organizations, companies, and civil society, and with a daily, national radio program, Yale Climate Connections.
Partnerships Program Manager
Geospatial Data Scientist
Data Analyst
Message Experiments Research Specialist
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Partnerships Program Manager
The Partnerships Program supports advocates, governments, educators, and companies drawing on YPCCC data and insights, including Climate Change in the American Mind national surveys, Yale Climate Opinion Maps, Global Warming’s Six Americas, Microtargeting Models, and Message and Field Experiments.
Position Focus:
The Partnerships Program Manager manages a portfolio of relationships for the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and they play a leadership role within the Partnerships Program work to scale our impact. The Partnerships Program is a dynamic team that values innovation, teamwork, flexibility, initiative, accountability, and collaborative leadership. We are also a small and nimble team, which means the work can range from informing a strategic decision to detailed implementation of a randomized control trial.
In this role, the Manager will help develop and disseminate climate change communication strategies, tactics, and tools to advocates, governments, educators, and companies drawing on YPCCC data and insights, including:
- The Climate Change in the American Mind national surveys
- The Yale Climate Opinion Maps
- Global Warming’s Six Americas
- Microtargeting Models
- Message Experiments
- Field Experiments
- Communication Campaigns
The Manager reports to the Partnerships Director and will work closely with the broader YPCCC team.
The ideal Manager thinks like an organizer, has a track record of building relationships and managing projects, and is not afraid to roll up their sleeves to get results.
Core Responsibilities:
- Maintain relationships with diverse climate organizations, ranging from large institutions to small grassroots groups.
- Scale the Partnership program via increased consulting and training in climate communication strategy, tactics, and tools to improve the communication and engagement capacity of partner organizations and the broader climate change community.
- Working with partners and YPCCC’s research team, design and implement climate change communication and engagement experiments, develop actionable insights, and share them with partners and the climate change community.
- Support Partner’s success from inception through conclusion, including the development of a project and regular communication with partners and stakeholders to ensure goals are met.
- Lead aspects of the Partnerships strategy and outreach to diverse climate organizations.
- Serve as an ambassador to the climate change community for all YPCCC publications, tools, and insights.
- Oversee a portfolio of partner-led research using YPCCC tools.
- Inform the YPCCC research team about emerging trends, ongoing challenges or research needs among partners and/or the wider community of practitioners.
- With the YPCCC research team, help assess the utility of new YPCCCC research products, tools, and data.
- Manage a team of student research assistants.
Required Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in environmental studies, political science, psychology, sociology, or relevant field and at least 2 years of experience in issue, community organizing, labor, or political campaigns, including digital campaigns.
- Experience creating advocacy and strategic communication plans.
- Experience coordinating activities of staff.
- Experience developing and implementing professional trainings.
Required skills and abilities:
- Excellent verbal and written communication. Skilled and engaging presenter. Ability to manage projects, set priorities, and advance outcomes.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with a diverse range of partners from new organizers to senior leaders. A practical understanding of evidence-based campaign strategy, communications, organizing, and data tools.
- Ability to support research design, message testing, and other experimentation in an advocacy, marketing, communications, or campaign context and explain quantitative data to non-research audiences.
- Ability to understand academic literature on climate change communication and movement building.
- Proven ability to work with Google Docs, Office 365, and constituent relationship management tools such as Salesforce, and Zoom.
- Cultural Competence: Demonstrated awareness of one’s own cultural identity, views about differences, and the ability to learn and build on varying cultural and community norms. Track record of successfully working across lines of race, immigration status, ethnicity, language, class, gender, and other identities. Passion for building a more effective and equitable climate community.
Location:
This position is based in New Haven, Connecticut, with the possibility of remote work.
To apply:
Go to Yale’s job application platform here (79104BR). Please include where you heard about this position in your cover letter. The applications will be reviewed from February 28, 2023- March 6, 2023.
The description in Yale’s application platform contains the required language and fewer details than the description here, the position is most accurately described above.
Salary range: $66,000 to $111,300 a year with full benefits, with an expected starting salary in the lower third of the range.
Geospatial Data Scientist
The Geospatial Data Scientist will manage, analyze, model, and visualize scientific data as part of a research team building cutting-edge communication tools to combat climate change based on findings from national and international surveys. We’re looking for data scientists who want to help pioneer a new approach to communication: giving policy and decision-makers, researchers, journalists, advocates, and educators the insights they need to engage people in climate change solutions.
If you’re looking to use your geospatial data skills to help mitigate climate change, we encourage you to apply.
Who We Are
- YPCCC conducts scientific research and builds tools that help advance communication science and practice. Our research helps communicators understand public climate change awareness, risk perceptions, policy support, and behavior, and the underlying social, cultural, political, and geographic factors that drive them. We also develop evidence-based communication strategies, tactics, and tools that can catalyze climate action.
- We build and deploy tools that help campaigns, countries, and companies build public and political will for climate action. We partner with governments, media organizations, companies, and civil society organizations across the US and around the world.
- We’re a team of academics, campaigners, and software engineers devoted to the science and practice of effective climate change communication.
- We are based at the Yale School of the Environment, located in New Haven, Connecticut.
Why You Should Join
Our data team prides itself for its ability to build outstanding tools that support our partners’, clients’, and colleagues’ work, amplifying our collective impact
- We are deeply motivated by the work we do and committed to using technology ethically; we’re looking for teammates who feel the same way
- You will work on challenging problems with the goal of building innovative and powerful tools to help engage societies around the world in climate change science, impacts, and solutions.
- As part of a team based at Yale University, you will have the opportunity to learn new skills, work with talented team members, students, and partners from around the world.
About The Position
- Starts ASAP
- Location: New Haven, CT; part-time remote work possible
- Salary range $90-$100k
- Excellent health benefits
About Our Tools
- We are primarily an R and Python shop (data processing, modeling, machine learning)
- ArcGIS, CARTO, QGIS, R and Python for mapping and spatial analysis
- SPSS, Stata, and R for statistical analysis
- ArcGIS, R, D3.js, and Tableau for visualization
- Cloud and High-Performance Computers for computation and storage
- Git for versioning
Responsibilities
- Create updated geospatial data products on an annual basis
- Collect, analyze, visualize, and communicate geospatial data
- Scale and automate existing processes for YPCCC data products and tools
- Perform QA/QC on a variety of spatial and non-spatial datasets for research
- Document data processing and workflows
- Author peer-reviewed publications and public reports
Requirements
- At least four years of programming experience with R
- At least two years of experience with ArcGIS/QGIS
- Understanding of relational data principles
- Ability to effectively integrate spatial and non-spatial data
- Ability to develop geoprocessing models and automated scripts
- Ability to develop and document workflows
- Effective written and oral communication skills, especially for technical documentation
- Demonstrated ability to quickly learn & adapt to new technologies, programming languages, and methods of data analysis
- Attention to details and experience with QA/QC
- Master’s degree in computer science, statistics & data science, informatics, geography, economics, or allied discipline
Preferred Experience
- A working understanding of Python, SQL, and/or Google Earth Engine
- Topic knowledge of climate change mitigation and adaptation, environmental hazards, social vulnerability
- Experience scaling projects and using high performance and/or cloud computing
- Experience with machine learning
- Experience with survey data and methods
- Background in environmental science, studies, or climate change
- PhD in computer science, statistics & data science, informatics, geography, economics, or allied discipline
To apply
Please go to the Yale STARS system [Search YPCCC 79005BR] but note that THIS description more accurately describes the position than the wording in the STARS system. Please include where you heard about this position in your cover letter.
Unfortunately, Yale cannot provide visa sponsorship for this position.
The review of applications will begin on February 20, 2023, and the position will remain open until filled. The position is a full-time appointment with full benefits.
Salary range: $90-$100K.
Data Analyst
The Data Analyst will contribute to our ongoing research, training, and outreach on the public’s climate change knowledge, risk perceptions, policy preferences, and behavior. The program conducts scientific surveys and message experiments at the national, international, and global scales, as well as with specific communities and organizations. The program also includes several projects that engage the public in climate change science and solutions.
Responsibilities
- Manage and analyze data to produce reports and visualizations based on climate change communication research, related primarily to our longstanding project Climate Change in the American Mind.
- Collect, clean, manage and prepare new scientific datasets, metadata, and documentation.
- Implement data analysis plans, manage, store, and archive data.
- Develop efficient workflows for processing diverse datasets, including survey, economic, geographic, and other data.
- Answer data requests from the research, social media, and partnership teams.
- Help design and draft new requirements for data collection, management, and analysis.
- Co-author public reports and presentations.
- Work with an interdisciplinary and international network of researchers.
Required education and experience
- Candidates must have at least a B.S. in a relevant field or discipline, such as computer science, statistics or data science, natural sciences, economics, political science, or geography.
- Proficiency in the R programming language.
- Proficiency in data analysis using R, SPSS, Stata, or other statistics packages.
- Proficiency in data, code, and project management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Results-driven and able to handle multiple projects.
- Strong interpersonal and time-management skills.
To apply
Please go to the Yale STARS system [Search YPCCC 79006BR] but note that THIS description more accurately describes the position than the wording in the STARS system.Please include where you heard about this position in your cover letter.
Unfortunately, Yale cannot provide visa sponsorship for this position.
The review of applications will begin on February 20, 2023, and the position will remain open until filled. The position is a full-time appointment with benefits.
Salary range: $60-$70k.
Location: New Haven, CT; part-time remote work possible, preference will be given to applicants who would be mostly in-person
Message Experiments Research Specialist
The Research Specialist will contribute to our ongoing experimental research on the public’s climate change and environmental knowledge, risk perceptions, policy preferences, and behavior. We conduct online/digital message testing experiments to advance scientific theory and engage different audiences in climate change solutions. The program also includes several national and international outreach projects to engage the public and policymakers.
Essential Duties:
- Help coordinate, manage, and conduct experimental studies, including research design, questionnaire development, and analysis, working with a multi-institutional team of researchers.
- Author public reports and peer-reviewed publications.
- Help maintain a database, including research materials, datasets, and codebooks.
- Help with vendor contracts, IRB approvals, and other administrative tasks.
- Disseminate research findings through briefings, presentations, and social media.
Skills & Abilities:
- Proficiency and experience in online/digital experimental research and platforms (e.g., Qualtrics).
- Proficiency in data management and analysis using R, SPSS, SAS, Excel, GIS and/or other applications.
- Excellent project management skills, including managing multiple projects, objectives, and deadlines.
- Ability to think strategically about research issues and projects.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to communicate research methods and findings to non-technical audiences.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills.
Required Education:
Masters or PhD in a relevant field or discipline, such as psychology, political science, communication, or public health. Recent doctoral recipients who are primarily focused on pursuing an academic career track are encouraged to apply for our Postdoctoral Research Fellow position.
Preferred:
A background understanding of climate science and environmental issues is preferred, but not required.
To apply:
Please apply online at www.Yale.edu/jobs – the STARS req. ID for this position is 79000BR and the University title of the position is “Research Specialist.” Please include where you heard about this position in your cover letter.
The review of applications is currently ongoing and the position will remain open until filled. The successful candidate is expected to work in our offices on Yale’s campus. Start date is as early as April 1, 2023.
Salary range: $70,000–$80,000