Seeking Impact Assessment Fellows
SEEKING: Climate CoLab Impact Assessment Fellows
MIT’s Climate CoLab (www.climatecolab.org) is an online platform where thousands of people from around the world work with experts and each other to create, analyze, and select detailed proposals for what to do about climate change. In 2017, the Climate CoLab is running a suite of contests on topics such as energy efficiency, transportation, adaptation, and engaging the public, as well as on specific regions around the world.
With support from the Impact Assessment Fellows, community members calculate and submit the carbon equivalent impact of their proposal, and computerized simulation models embedded into the system allow them to project the environmental outcomes.
The Climate CoLab is seeking applications for its Impact Assessment Fellow team. Impact Assessment Fellows support the Climate CoLab community members by analysing and certifying their proposals’ climate impacts.
Responsibilities
- Help build the climate model database;
- Interact with an international community of varying experience;
- Reserve 5 hours/week for fellowship activities during the contest period;
- Collaborate with proposal authors to quantify climate impact of their proposals; and
- Ensure consistency across Impact Assessment Fellows in quantifying impact.
Benefits
- Take a leadership role in developing collaborative methods of climate impact assessment;
- Network and collaborate with fellow climate experts;
- Stay abreast with climate proposals from across industry sectors; and
- Bring facts-based independent analysis to climate proposals.
Basic Qualifications
- Degree in economics, engineering, policy, social sciences or a related field;
- Experience in creating, using, and documenting computer-based models;
Experience with models for assessing climate impact of policy or technology is especially desirable; - Demonstrated interest in mentoring others and working with teams remotely.
Optional Qualifications
Please note in your application if you have experience with these or similar topics:
- Expertise in system dynamics, optimization, or other modeling techniques;
- Knowledge of climate impact of renewable energy sources, automotive efficiency, building efficiency, carbon sequestration, waste recovery, or other approaches to climate impact;
- Knowledge of social science issues such as adoption curves and behavioral economics;
- Knowledge of climate law; and/or
- Skilled in integrating multiple models into one.
About the Climate CoLab
Run out of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, the Climate CoLab aims to harness the world’s collective intelligence to address global climate change. Activity is organized through a suite of annual contests, each focused on a challenge related to climate change. To date, over 75,000 members have submitted, collaborated on, or voted for the over 2000 proposals now on the site.
Some contests on the platform allow members to use computerized simulation models (including EnROADS and EMF) to project the climate impact of their proposals. For proposals to regional and global contests, community members are able to combine proposals from many different sectors and sub-areas to form integrated solutions.
To apply, please complete the form below.
Looking for the application for Climate CoLab contest Fellows? Please click here.
