Employer: Southern Environmental Law Center

Location: Asheville, NC or Chapel Hill, NC

Term: full-time, exempt, three-year term position

Application deadline: Sept 11, 2024. (Review will begin then. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis after that until filled).

Full position description and application instructions

Summary:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise in forest ecology relevant to SELC’s six-state region.
• Work with program staff to identify needs and opportunities for advocacy in state and federal policy.
• Cultivate and maintain working relationships with researchers; academics; state, federal, and international resource professionals; community-based organizations; scientific and policy-focused stakeholder groups; and peer professionals working with SELC’s partner organizations across the region.
• Review and synthesize research related to forest carbon accounting, including life-cycle analyses of the net greenhouse gas impacts of various forest management schemes.
• Provide technical input for and review of computer models of forest management scenarios, such as state-and-transition models or carbon accounting models.
• And more…