Part time Conservation Finance Associate Specialist, Environmental Markets Lab (emLab), Univers[...]

UC Santa Barbara; California (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

UC Santa Barbara's Environmental Markets Lab is seeking a motivated Part Time Associate Specialist to support marine carbon dioxide removal research. Key responsibilities include data analysis, literature reviews, and contributing to academic outputs. Ideal candidates will have analytical skills and an interest in environmental solutions.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills required.
• Experience with data analysis preferred.
• Interest in environmental markets and carbon removal strategies.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, process, and visualize data for research.
• Conduct literature reviews and contribute to academic manuscripts.
• Develop workflows and best practices for data analysis.

Skills

Data visualization

Literature review

Risk modeling

Workflow development

Job description

The Environmental Markets Lab (emLab) is seeking a highly motivated Part Time Associate Specialist to conduct research and analyses to support a project developing financial strategies to de-risk marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The research components include, but are not limited to, categorizing ecosystem restoration mCDR approaches, associated risks, and carbon benefits; developing financial toolkits to manage risks; identifying co-benefit generation from risk management strategies; and outlining business vignettes that illustrate risks, tools, actors, and value for different intervention types. The associate specialist will be responsible for a variety of tasks including preparing, processing, combining, and visualizing data; conducting literature reviews; employing theoretical and empirical approaches to model risk, diversification, and portfolios; contributing to the drafting of academic manuscripts, reports, and presentations; and developing efficient and reproducible workflows to implement best practices for data acquisition and analysis.

emLab is an interdisciplinary team of scientists based at UC Santa Barbara that conducts cutting-edge, data-driven research on the power, limitations, and design of market-based approaches to tackle the world's most pressing environmental problems. In collaboration with implementing partners, emLab aims to better align environmental objectives and economic incentives in support of sustainable livelihoods and a resilient planet.

Salary is commensurate with the applicant’s qualifications and experience.