NRDC is seeking a Schneider Federal Climate & Clean Energy Policy Analysis Fellow to work with the Climate & Clean Energy Team in our DC or NY offices. This is a one-year Fellowship Position expected to commence in the Summer or Fall of 2019.
The Schneider Fellowships were created to promote the awareness of environmental issues resulting from our past and present energy use. The Fellowship program supports the efforts of non-governmental organizations, such as NRDC, that are chosen based on their efforts to identify and solve the challenges of developing a more sustainable energy future.
The Climate and Clean Energy Program focuses on fighting climate change by cutting carbon pollution and expanding the contribution of energy efficiency and renewable energy to ensure the clean, reliable and affordable energy services that a healthy and sustainable economy needs.
- The Fellow will work with NRDC's Climate and Clean Energy Program, and be directly involved in policy development and technical analysis of various federal regulatory and legislative approaches to climate policy. Research and analysis projects that the Fellow may work on include the redesign and strengthening of key federal standards for carbon dioxide pollution from power plants, approaches for innovative regulatory action under the Clean Air Act, strategic climate and clean energy legislation.
- The Fellow will work within the Climate and Clean Energy Policy Analysis Group as well as with the federal policy teams to analyze the economic, environmental, and public health impacts of these policy opportunities in preparation for an incoming administration in 2020. Current and past fellows have provided integral analysis and materials development in support of the Clean Power Plan, the federal tax credits for wind and solar energy, and numerous state and regional clean energy policies.
- Fellows have developed expertise in modeling analysis of the economy as a whole, as well as individual sectors including electricity, transportation and industry.
- Fellows have relied on their modeling and analytical skills to support both federal and state climate and clean energy policy, and have successfully engaged in all stages of policy advocacy from concept and strategy development to analysis, negotiation, execution and implementation.
- The Fellow will gain skills in research and analysis, written advocacy, oral advocacy, and how to participate in legislative and regulatory processes.
- The Fellow will be an integral part of NRDC’s team and will gain exposure to a variety of activities including attending policy meetings, working with private sector stakeholders, joint advocacy with other partners, policy analysis and development, and legislative and regulatory research and drafting.
- Outstanding candidates with an undergraduate degree will also be considered. Persuasive written and oral advocacy are vital.
Compensation will be based on a nonprofit scale and will include consideration of degrees held, professional training, and years of relevant experience.