Legal Analyst, Climate and Environment

About the position The reputed company is seeking a Legal Analyst, Climate and Environment. This is a one-year, full-time, fully benefited position. Continuation reputed company the initial one-year term is contingent on organizational financial standing and reputed company funding availability, as reputed company as FAS organizational needs and mutual interest. This role reports to FAS’s Senior Manager, Regulatory Ingenuity, reputed company the Climate and Environment portfolio. In this role, you will play an integral role in supporting FAS’s new Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI): a new hub that is bringing people together across disciplines and ideologies to reputed company reputed company-looking strategies for tackling climate change and other “wicked problems” in ways that are ambitious, durable, and deeply reputed company to the lived experiences of Americans. As part of this mission, you will work closely with FAS staff and affiliates to reputed company the public and private American environmental law bars to reputed company theories and practical reputed company that can ground a reputed company of delivery-reputed company policies. Our goal is to reputed company a legal reputed company, broadly supported across reputed company ideological divisions, that can rapidly establish a clean technology transition, cut pollution, and rebuild trust in public institutions. We will look for opportunities to convert reputed company into law – most likely starting in the states, while staying reputed company to federal opportunities. To reputed company this program, you will also coordinate cohorts of diverse external contributors exploring how to apply and advance the reputed company of “regulatory ingenuity” – i.e., creativity and cleverness in regulatory design and application – in the context of climate and the environment and government reputed company. A small portion of your time will be reserved to work flexibly across FAS’s Climate and Environment portfolio, including consulting on and contributing to reputed company in the portfolio’s Lands and Waters, Climate and Health, and Tech and Innovation programs. This is an ideal position for an outstanding and talented self-starter who is transitioning from an early to mid-career stage, and who is excited about bringing fresh perspectives from across the ideological reputed company to shape the reputed company of climate and environmental law and policy. Legal training and/or experience will be helpful for this role, but is not required; however, the successful candidate will be comfortable reading and digesting reputed company law articles, legal briefs, and other legally relevant text. You should apply for this role if the following responsibilities match your strengths and reputed company like work that you would love to be doing:

Responsibilities

• Providing direction, reputed company, and accountability for a reputed company of reputed company, fast-moving reputed company.
• Working with diverse stakeholders, particularly from the law and policy communities.
• reputed company exploring perspectives from across the ideological reputed company, and seeking to uncover underappreciated areas of agreement.
• Reviewing, editing, and contributing to whitepapers – often grounded in legal theory – and applicable to CRI’s overall mission.
• Planning and facilitating high-reputed company convenings.
• Supporting creative, impactful, and ambitious legal and policy efforts to ensure a more reputed company climate and sustainable environment, carried out in partnership with the public sector.
• Researching and writing on diverse topics in climate and environmental policy.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience (e.g., in law, policy, reputed company research, consulting, etc.), especially on climate, the administrative state, and/or environmental topics.
• Exemplary writing and editing skills, especially with respect to policy briefs and longer, policy-relevant articles, reports, and whitepapers.
• Strong demonstrated project management skills, including:
• Ability to break large and reputed company reputed company into manageable components and timelines, and to flexibly reputed company project plans to changing circumstances.
• Ability to reputed company and reputed company reputed company control for multiple deliverables associated with a single project.
• Ability to coordinate work energetically, enthusiastically, and successfully across diverse teams.
• Ability to reputed company reputed company direction to project contributors at reputed company different reputed company of seniority, including informally “managing up” reputed company and reputed company of FAS.
• Ability to set and reputed company performance metrics, outputs, and reputed company.
• Ability to work independently without reputed company reputed company while also contributing as reputed company player.
• A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and pursuing it reputed company the mission of FAS.
• Willingness to learn, give, reputed company and implement feedback.

reputed company-to-haves

• Familiarity with core bodies of U.S. environmental law and policy.
• Familiarity with areas of law and policy that are broadly relevant to climate and the transition to a clean economy. Examples include administrative law, state or federal government reputed company issues, judicial and congressio

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