Executive Director, Impact Lab
Company: Columbia University
Location: New York
Posted on: November 6, 2024
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Job Description:
The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based
on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental
budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses,
specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the
University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of
possible compensation at the time of posting.
Position Summary
Please note: This position is to lead a newly created lab within
the Climate School - not the Earth Institute.
The Columbia Climate School is educating and empowering the next
generation of climate leaders, making our students and
world-renowned faculty and researchers a key asset in delivering
climate impact globally, now and in the future. The Executive
Director will oversee the strategy, finances, and operations of a
newly created lab to support that mission.
This new lab in the Columbia Climate School, with initial funding
from a generous gift, will provide a strategic platform to develop
partnerships of Columbia faculty, researchers, students, and
institutes at Columbia with city and state leaders, legislators,
networks, and other global stakeholders and policymakers that are
seeking support in confronting the climate crisis.
By virtue of its location in a global innovation hub like New York
City and with the credibility of Columbia University, this
initiative is uniquely positioned to achieve accelerated impact
with specific local and regional leaders, and global institutions,
and can leverage natural connections to national and international
media, cultural organizations, and businesses.
This work must be rooted in the need for climate solutions to build
greater resilience in our infrastructure and communities, achieve
environmental justice and equity for those on the frontlines of our
climate crisis, and slash the greenhouse gas emissions caused
primarily by the burning of fossil fuels as well as unsustainable
land use and agricultural practices.
In its simplest form, the proposal is for the Columbia Climate
School and its lab to engage with strategic partners in one or more
priority areas (cities, food, energy, adaptation, finance, or
migration, for instance) in order to co-create policy-actionable
research and insights - and then share our learnings with a wide
audience of interested stakeholders. By building long-term
relationships with strategic partners, we would be enabling real
impact opportunities for the Climate School, including faculty
research programs and opportunities for both practice-based student
learning and leadership pipelines to careers with impactful
organizations. The lab would be the translational capability
sitting between our strategic partners and our
faculty/researchers/students, helping to achieve shared outcomes
for all sides. They will be expected to forge partnerships with
other units in the school, coordinate support for
investigator-driven initiatives, and link activities to the
school's academic strategic framework.
The Executive Director is responsible for the leadership,
management, strategic planning, and evaluation of all program
activities in the lab. The ideal candidate will have subject matter
expertise in climate change and demonstrated leadership experience
in the field.
Responsibilities
Strategic Operations of the Lab
Strategic Partnerships: Develop and maintain one or more strategic
partnership arrangements with key organizations that are globally
networked with policymakers and practitioners. With additional
funding, these arrangements are expected to expand over
time.
Faculty Platform: Develop a transparent mechanism to engage the
Faculty of the Columbia Climate School and their research interests
and expertise in support of the strategic partnerships.
Student Leadership: Work with Faculty and Academic Affairs to
create opportunities for student engagement, learning, and
leadership development as part of the work within the strategic
partnerships.
Development: Raise additional funds to support the operation of the
lab, in partnership with the Development team.
Core Functionality of the Lab
Policy Research and Field Briefings:Engage in a sustained manner
with strategic partners to solve problems with policy-actionable
research and insights to policymakers and practitioners.
Leadership Pipelines: Climate Policy Scholars: Create an annual
Climate Policy Scholars program to identify high-performing
students from across the university that support their training and
experiential learning with our strategic partners, seeking to find
career placement opportunities in impactful organizations working
on climate solutions.
Leadership Pipelines: Climate Policy Fellows: Seek out and appoint
well-known experts as Columbia Climate Policy Fellows to support
strategic partners in emerging and priority areas where additional
resources or expertise is needed.
Communications:Utilize media engagement and digital communications
tools to expand its reach beyond its strategic partners, and share
lessons learned and case studies with a broad community of
interested stakeholders. This will include tools such as
newsletters, media relations, podcasts, or other means of
disseminating the work.
Convenings:Lead and create events, roundtables, conferences, side
events, and speaking opportunities organized around key moments on
the global climate calendar (e.g., Climate Week NYC, upcoming COPs,
Earth Day, etc.) to showcase its work and to support the needs of
its strategic partners and its platform of faculty researchers.
Other Management Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Other Requirements
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local
residents.
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