Bilingual Adjunct Fellow – Climate

Position description

Akima Data Management is looking for a Bilingual Adjunct Fellow- Climate to work in the Washinton DC area. To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today!

Responsibilities
 

• Educate participants about the scientific and meteorological causes of global warming. These educational opportunities come in the form of in-residence courses and seminars at the Perry Center in Washington DC; in-region conferences as part of a regional or bilateral academic event; or international or regional discussions with partner nation representatives.

• Consult with practitioners and conduct science needs assessment by translating the climate information needs of community leaders into viable and effective climate mitigation plans.

• Develop climate change research and publications (reports, web content, briefing papers, and fact sheets) for diverse audiences.

• Communicate science findings and assessments to diverse non-academic audiences, including governments and policy makers.

• Work with partner nation government officials and members of civil society to mitigate the threats posed to communities in Latin American and Caribbean nations by climate change and global warming. These include more powerful storms, increased levels of precipitation, heat waves, droughts, and rising sea levels, among others.

• Advise partner nation governments in the region on how to adapt to the effects of climate change, for example, through conversion of electrical generation, industry, and transportation systems away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy systems; reinforcement and upgrading of critical infrastructure; and hardening existing military installations.

• Identify interagency and whole-of-government efforts to combat climate change.

• Work with representatives of the armed forces to effectively prepare for climate change related disasters. These may include additional Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) capabilities, preparing security forces for socio-economic protests, managing climate-provoked migration, using the armed forces to protect environmental resources and biodiversity, defense support of civilian authorities, preservation of critical infrastructure, interagency coordination, and continuity of operations for the government.

• Examine ways to increase regional cooperation in the face worsening climate conditions.

• Possess excellent communication and writing skills, including synthesizing scientific literature and other sources of knowledge orally and in writing.

• Possess experience with co-production, use-inspired research, and scientific needs assessment.

• Demonstrate familiarity with climate science and climate change impacts.

• Able to convene and organize meetings and workshops.

• Demonstrate knowledge of or experience with climate resilience planning and implementation.

• Perry Center faculty are subject matter experts and teach, research, publish, and develop curriculum on complex security and defense challenges in the Americas. Through courses, conferences, research, and publications, they provide important academic perspectives that decision makers in the U.S. and partner nation countries can translate into policy and practice.

Qualifications

Most Perry Center faculty have several unique skills:

• Expertise in security and defense matters.
• Advanced academic degrees (doctorate preferred) in political science, international relations, history, sociology, conflict resolution, and other associated fields.
• Demonstrable record of research and publications.
• Knowledge of Latin American and Caribbean politics, history, and culture.
• Familiarity with national defense architecture, structures, and strategy.
• Well-developed language skills in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
• Perry Center constituents. Participants in Perry Center educational events are normally officials and practitioners from institutions that work on security and defense matters. They may hail from several different sectors of society:
• Civilian personnel from government ministries who work directly on or oversee security and defense issues. These students normally come from the Ministries of Defense or Interior in the partner nation.
• Civilian personnel who work on or oversee security and defense issues from other government departments (e.g., Ministry of Justice, national legislature, military war colleges, etc.).
• Members of the security and defense forces.
• Personnel from civil society organizations with interest in security and defense matters including non-government organizations (NGO), academic institutions, and think tanks.

Qualifications
 

• Four plus (4+) years of professional experience as a subject matter expert on climate change issues, with focus on the risks, consequences, and responses associated with climate change, development of national policy to build resilience to catastrophic risks, including climate mitigation and adaptation and the development of strategic plans regarding environmental disasters.
• Ability to speak and write Spanish and English is required.
• Master’s degree in the field of climatology, earth sciences, or environmental sciences or equivalent degree.
• Additional preferred skills. Doctorate degree in a field of earth or environmental sciences is preferred. Ability to speak and write Portuguese desired.
• Language requirements. English and Spanish fluency required; Portuguese language skills are desired.
• Occasional travel within the continental United States as well as throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Pay Range

190,000.00

Application instructions

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