Postdoctoral Fellow-Sustainability Assessments

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Category: Admin-Assessment, Accreditation, and Compliance
Date Posted: September 25, 2024

Job Description

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW-SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENTS, MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium (MCSC)-Impact Fellowship Program, will work with MIT researchers, consortium industry members, external organizations and communities to implement solutions needed for global economic transformation to address the global climate change and sustainability crisis; prepare for leadership positions within the sustainability domain in a wide range of contexts and prepare to drive research that advances breakthrough scalable solutions towards accelerated change; work with MCSC member companies and researchers in the MIT community to develop next generation sustainability assessment methods including carbon, water, and biodiversity accounting methods, and GHG target setting and decarbonization pathway characterization.

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Job Requirements:

REQUIRED: Ph.D. in a science or engineering discipline, interdisciplinary climate or sustainability program; familiarity with at least three of the following: life cycle assessment, corporate greenhouse gas accounting, water footprinting, biodiversity metrics, science-based GHG emissions targets, or developing and deploying interactive software tools; experience with proposal writing; group management, and coordination; robust listening, written and verbal communication skills; highly collaborative and able to work in a team environment with experts from diverse backgrounds. Job #24433

As sustainability assessment is a broad topic with many interconnected sub-topics (carbon, water, biodiversity, science-based targets), candidates should highlight their experience, traversing disciplines during problem-solving, in their application materials.

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