Union of Concerned Scientists

Advisor

• Contribute interdisciplinary analysis and strategic thinking across the broader initiative.
• Collaborate with colleagues across UCS to identify opportunities to strengthen public-interest science institutions.
• Maintain continuity across the Reimagining Federal Science for Policy initiative by tracking emerging work, connecting collaborators, identifying opportunities for coordination, and documenting lessons learned.
• Support organizational learning, evaluation, and strategic planning related to the initiative.
• Coordinate work across the Climate Reserve and Reimagining Federal Science for Policy initiatives, as appropriate.
• Develop analyses and practical recommendations that strengthen the institutions responsible for producing, governing, communicating, evaluating, and applying climate change knowledge.
• Identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness, legitimacy, equity, and public value of climate change knowledge institutions.
• Develop practical frameworks and recommendations that inform future governance, public investment, institutional reform, and implementation.
• Develop and evaluate practical approaches that strengthen climate change knowledge institutions under changing political conditions.
• Identify opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers, practitioners, policymakers, philanthropic organizations, civil society partners, and affected communities.
• Convene and contribute to collaborative processes that advance shared learning and institutional improvement.
• Build and maintain productive relationships across communities of practice.
• Synthesize collaborative discussions into actionable findings and strategic recommendations.
• Produce reports, briefing papers, presentations, blogs, and other written products that translate complex institutional questions into actionable insights.
• Contribute to scholarly, practitioner, and public conversations through writing, presentations, and collaborative engagement.
• Represent UCS at meetings, workshops, conferences, and other public forums, as appropriate.
• Cultivate relationships with academic, governmental, nonprofit, philanthropic, and professional partners to advance the goals of the fellowship.
• Document lessons emerging from fellowship activities and associated initiatives.
• Develop recommendations that strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration, institutional learning, and knowledge translation across UCS and partner organizations.
• Develop documentation, recommendations, and transition materials that enable UCS and partner organizations to sustain and build upon the fellowship's work.
• Share learning internally and externally to improve future work.

Science Policy Advisor

Manager

• Provide thought leadership, science direction, and technical, analytical, and public outreach support to advance the UCS goal to promote the safety and security of nuclear power and the nuclear fuel cycle.
• Conduct research and analysis in support of UCS’ nuclear power safety project and energy campaign and work collaboratively with coalition and grassroots partners.
• Serve as a spokesperson and technical expert representing UCS in public forums and with media, policymakers, regulators, and stakeholders.
• Design and implement research and analysis in accordance with legal requirements for human subjects and environmental protection and upholding principles of scientific excellence.
• Work with leadership and colleagues to ensure that organizational and programmatic goals, strategies, priorities and decisions are grounded in, and informed by, the best available science and advance campaign goals and objectives.
• Identify strategic opportunities for new areas of research including novel analytical or policy work.
• Implement collaborative work across programs to develop and test evidence-based solutions for policy, regulatory, and other decision-making challenges.
• Manage research and analysis projects on nuclear power and nuclear safety issues, including scoping, planning, execution, and evaluation.
• Write, edit and review peer-reviewed papers, reports, fact sheets, issue/policy briefs, and other materials highlighting the results of various analyses following UCS protocols for review, production, and presentation of results.
• Communicate and uplift UCS’s priorities online and through social media by writing blog posts, web copy and other digital content.
• Support fundraising and development efforts through donor meetings and other efforts to cultivate relationships.

Senior Manager, Nuclear Power Safety

Communications

• Develops and implements communication/media strategies to maximize communication impact and earned media for UCS issues, experts, and products.
• Leads the coordination of program and campaign team communications.
• Ensures a steady drumbeat of activities are completed that advance goals.
• Balances and prioritizes overall communications work to best advance campaign goals and needs.
• Establishes relationships with journalists to garner coverage of UCS issues, experts and products.
• Pitches stories and promptly responds to interview requests.
• Ensures writing, editing and distribution of media materials including alerts, press releases and statements.
• Writes, edits, publishes, and maintains accurate web content.
• Tracks UCS press hits and impact of communications strategies.

Science Policy Advisor

Senior Manager, Nuclear Power Safety

Strategic Communications Officer