Research Associate

• Assist in research on climate impacts, including climate risk modeling, wildfire adaptation and mitigation, and scoping new work.
• Contribute to CarbonPlan research articles, tools, blog posts, and scientific journal articles.
• Support efforts to engage media, research, and decision-making communities.
• Work collaboratively with other team members and external partners.

This role helps ensure the scientific integrity and transparency of climate solutions and impacts, creating open public resources to inform adaptation and mitigation policy, particularly at the intersection of climate risk and affordability.

• Degree or training in Earth sciences, environmental science, data science, statistics, economics, or related field.
• Strong non-academic written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience conducting interdisciplinary and/or policy-relevant research.
• Experience with data analysis and scientific programming (e.g., Python).

Annual salary of $115,000. Comprehensive benefits include health insurance (99% of costs covered for employees, 75% for dependents), dental, vision, flexible health spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life insurance, 401(k) with employer contribution, generous paid time off, 16 weeks paid parental leave, and remote work expense reimbursements.

CarbonPlan is a nonprofit organization using science and data to accelerate climate action. They analyze climate programs and build open datasets, models, and interactive tools, focusing on carbon accounting and climate impacts.