Climate Science Advisor

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The Agency You'll Join: The New York City Mayor's Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City's economy stronger. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team The Team You'll Work With: The Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) is a team of architects, lawyers, data and climate scientists, engineers, policy advisors, geologists, and city planners working to create a city where our 8.8 million New Yorkers can live, work, learn, and play in healthy, resilient, and sustainable neighborhoods. MOCEJ integrates sustainability, resiliency, and environmental justice into one coordinated approach across several climate and environmental offices, all working to make our buildings efficient and resilient; our infrastructure climate-ready; our streets, open spaces, and public realm active, safe, and healthy; and our energy clean and resilient. All New Yorkers deserve safe, healthy, resilient, and sustainable environments, even as the climate changes. MOCEJ is committed to improving environmental quality for all, prioritizing front-line communities, seeking to redress current and past injustices and inequities while creating economic opportunities for all. Through science-based analysis, policy and program development, and capacity building, MOCEJ leads the City's efforts to ensure that New York City is minimizing its contributions to climate change, preparing to adapt and protect New Yorkers from extreme weather and multiple climate hazards, and giving every New Yorker a meaningful voice in our city's future. The Problems You'll Solve: On the team led by the Deputy Executive Director for Planning, Adaptation and Environmental Justice, the Climate Science Advisor oversees climate science research and analysis at MOCEJ, including the development of data analytics tools to drive decision-making and detection of climate risks related to torrential rain, coastal flooding, extreme heat, and other climate threats. The Climate Science Advisor will work closely with MOCEJ staff on monitoring and updating climate and environmental data that informs various data products, such as the Environmental Justice NYC (EJNYC) report and mapping tool, energy use and affordability, and methodologies that track emissions and other air quality issues. The responsibilities of the Climate Science Advisor include the following: - Lead climate data analytics to drive decision-making and inform climate policy for MOCEJ, partners in government, and external stakeholders. - Develop and manage innovative products and services that visualize data, concepts, and other actionable information, as well as build internal capacity to use scientific evidence in ongoing policymaking, planning, and operations. Support exploration and advancement of new data products, such as digital twins, scenario modeling platforms, and decision-support tools in line with emerging climate science. - Convene the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), which comprises academic and research partners appointed to develop novel climate science research. In partnership with the NPCC Co-Chairs, the Climate Science Advisor will align the panel's efforts with City policy and decision-making, strengthen engagement and participation in climate assessments, and clearly communicate climate science and risks to agency partners, advocates, researchers, and the public. The Climate Science Advisor will provide support to ensure the NPCC on workplans, deliverables, budget, consultant management, and will ensure alignment of the NPCC's scientific outputs with MOCEJ's strategy and policy priorities. - Manage the office's data tools and products to identify and analyze geographic, racial, and socioeconomic disparities of climate risks and environmental justice impacts, including the Environmental Justice NYC report indicators and mapping tool and the Greenhouse Gas Inventory. This work will include tasks such as updates and methodological refinements to environmental justice risk indicators, including integration of cost burden, affordability implications, cumulative climate risk metrics, and other environmental justice considerations to better inform equitable adaptation policy and investment strategies. - Work with staff across the office to conduct new climate research projects that support MOCEJ's policy goals, lead procurement for research in partnership with MOCEJ policy teams, and support key partners in developing proposals and cultivating new research projects; manage grant funding for climate research implementation. Past examples include engaging DD