Program Director, Energy, Environment & Land Use Law

Vanderbilt; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderbilt Law School's Energy, Environment, and Land Use (EELU) Program seeks a Program Director to coordinate the program’s portfolio, curriculum, and student/alumni support. The role reports to the Vice Dean and Faculty Co-Directors, with the position funded for one year and potential renewal.

The Director will oversee programming, conferences, and external partnerships, while guiding externships and research aligned with EELU goals and funding opportunities.

Qualifications

• A Juris Doctorate (J.D.) is necessary.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in energy, environmental, and land use law, legal field or the equivalent is necessary
• Demonstrated integrity, honesty, and openness to create strong and enduring collaboration with key leaders across the institution and community is necessary
• Executive level interpersonal and communication skills are necessary
• Ability to demonstrate maturity, creativity and initiative in expanding the Law School's presence locally and nationally is necessary
• Ability to make sound administrative/procedural decisions using a high level of discernment is necessary
• Ability to perform complex tasks and to prioritize multiple projects is necessary
• Ability to provide technical advice and information to staff in area of expertise is necessary

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized programming, coordinate conferences, and guest speaker events with the support of the Program Coordinator
• Lead high-level planning of the annual Distinguished Lecture on Climate Change Governance and support the planning and execution of the annual State of the Environment Conference
• Conduct regular meetings of the EELU Program team
• Assist students in choosing externship and research that will build strategically toward EELU employment opportunities
• Work closely with students, host organizations, and funders to build winning fellowship and funding applications
• Provide organizational management of the Private Governance Lab and work with the Private Governance Lab Fellow to ensure the execution and promotion of Lab projects
• Keep track of regular EELU course offerings and assist EELU faculty in avoiding significant course scheduling overlaps
• Work with students and faculty to prepare white papers on environmental, energy and/or land use issues for the Program's climate governance white paper series
• May include offering a course in the energy, environment, and land use law area(s) as an adjunct professor/part-time instructor focused on environmental, energy and/or land use issues such as best practices for local government climate change mitigation and adaptation

Skills

Executive interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Integrity and honesty

Administrative decision-making

Prioritization and multitasking

Technical advisory capability

Maturity, creativity and initiative

Cross-stakeholder collaboration

Education

Juris Doctorate (J.D.)

Job description

Vanderbilt Law School's Energy, Environment, and Land Use (EELU) Program seeks a Program Director to coordinate the program’s portfolio, curriculum, and student/alumni support. The role reports to the Vice Dean and Faculty Co-Directors, with the position funded for one year and potential renewal.

The Director will oversee programming, conferences, and external partnerships, while guiding externships and research aligned with EELU goals and funding opportunities.