Public Interest Scientist Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Thursday, September 10, 2009
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:
Public Interest Scientist Post-Doctoral Fellowship – Fall 2010
The Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) – the Midwest’s leading environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization – has created an innovative Science Fellows Program to enable post-doc scientists to engage in environmental and natural resources policy analysis and advocacy. ELPC Post-Doctoral Science Fellows will work with ELPC’s professional staff of public interest attorneys, M.B.A.s and economists, public policy advocates and communications specialists. ELPC Science Fellows will bridge the gap between university-based science research and the policy actions needed to help protect threatened natural resources, address global warming solutions, and advance environmental progress and economic development together in the Midwest. ELPC Science Fellows will work as team members with ELPC’s Science Advisory Council and professional program staff to add their science and technical expertise to help frame advocacy positions and strategies and to better inform policymakers on key issues. These are full-time, Chicago-based positions available beginning in the fall of 2010, and involve engaging in important work throughout the Midwest and in Washington D.C.
ORGANIZATION: ELPC is the Midwest’s leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. ELPC’s major program areas include: promoting clean energy development strategies that help to solve global warming problems and reduce environmental degradation by encouraging energy efficiency and renewable energy alternatives to conventional power plants; promoting innovative transportation approaches, such as the development of a Midwest high-speed rail network, that will lead to cleaner air and more jobs; and protecting and preserving critical natural resources that improve the quality of life in our communities. One of ELPC’s premises is that environmental progress and economic development can be achieved together. ELPC’s multidisciplinary professional staff includes 40 attorneys, M.B.A.s, public policy advocates and communications specialists. ELPC was established in 1993 and has an annual budget of $6 million.
QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants should have a PhD in an environmental science discipline and should have: (1) A strong interest in public interest environmental advocacy and communication of scientific knowledge to diverse audiences of policymakers; (2) Scientific specialization in fields relevant to ELPC’s global warming solutions, clean energy development, clean air and clean water protection and improvement, and natural resources preservation programs, as described at www.elpc.org and www.globalwarmingsolutons.org; and (3) An ability to work productively with a team of skilled professionals.
COMPENSATION: ELPC will provide a competitive salary and benefits for this one-year fellowship.
APPLICATION PROCESS: Applicants should send a cover letter, resume, names and contract info for at least two professional references, and a 1-page memo that describes how they would work effectively with ELPC professional staff on specific advocacy programs to Kay Tamillow at KTamillow@elpc.org. The Environmental Law and Policy Center is an equal opportunity employer and is continually seeking to diversify its staff.
The seven members of the ELPC Science Advisory Council provide connections and expand our networks at major Midwestern universities (e.g., Professors Knute Nadelhoffer and Don Scavia at the University of Michigan, and Professors Jonathan Patz, Bobbi Peckarsky and Don Waller at the University of Wisconsin) and research institutions (Dr. Debby Moskovits at the Field Museum of Chicago and Dr. Marilu Hastings at the Houston Applied Research Center). These top-rate scientists infuse up-to-date scientific thinking into our key strategic legal, eco-business and policy decision-making process and bring ELPC resources into new issues that the scientists identify as significant and needing help. They provide substantial expertise in a variety of fields: conservation biology, botany, climate change, entomology, evolutionary biology, Great Lakes ecosystems, public health, and stream ecology, among others.
