Climate Jobs New York is hiring a Senior Researcher/Policy Analyst for work throughout New York State. The Research will support Climate Jobs New York’s work to win high road labor standards for the growing offshore wind industry including major components of the supply chain, the Carbon Free and Healthy Schools Campaign, and other campaigns. The Researcher will also develop and support legislative and policy initiatives on clean, green and renewable energy projects to support high road labor standards. The position will also build and maintain relationships with other organizations doing policy and campaign work to create good union jobs in the clean and renewable energy sectors.
Climate Jobs New York is a coalition of unions advocating for large-scale investments in clean and renewable energy built, manufactured and operated by union workers under union agreements. CJNY is committed to reducing economic inequality by fighting for good union jobs and to a just transition by creating pathways for workers of color and workers displaced by the transition away from fossil fuels to careers in the renewable energy sector.
Key Responsibilities include:
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This is a full-time position that may require some throughout Long Island and New York City, and occasionally to Albany. The salary range for this position is $75,000 - $90,000. CJNY provides an excellent benefits package.
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to info@climatejobsny.org
CJNY is committed to equal opportunity, and encourages applicants of all ages, races, sexual orientations, genders, national origins, ethnicities, religions, and veteran status. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds and experiences related to our core values and objectives to apply.
The Climate Jobs National Resource Center (CJNRC) is a labor-led organization at the forefront of the fight to combat the climate crisis and reverse racial and economic inequality. CJNRC supports a growing network of union-led, state-based climate jobs coalitions organizing to build a clean energy economy at the scale climate science demands, create good union jobs, and sustain more equitable communities. The coalitions we support are at the cutting edge of both workers’ rights and climate action, two defining issues of our time. The coalitions have helped pass the nation’s leading climate policies, won the strongest labor and equity standards for renewable energy in the country, and built winning campaigns for high-road climate investments and good union jobs that will shape the future of the US economy.