Air Pollution Specialist

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Are you interested in joining a team at the forefront of global climate change policy and developing and implementing a new regulation focused on zero-emission appliances? CARB’s Sustainable Transportation and Communities Division (STCD) has an opening in the Integrated System Assessment Section. The Section provides an exciting work environment with highly motivated staff. The Section’s work focuses on reducing criteria pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions through policies and programs that foster sustainable transportation and communities, with a particular focus on building decarbonization and transportation system emissions analyses.

These staff will serve as experts on topics related to zero-emission appliances and will help support CARB’s efforts in this policy area. The selected candidates will conduct technical and policy analysis and quantify the costs, benefits, and equity implications to support the development and implementation of the zero-emission appliance standards. The staff will support the development of regulatory proposals. In doing so, the staff will engage and collaborate with relevant interested parties including, but not limited to, appliance manufacturers, building industry representatives, equity advocates, public agencies, and other CARB staff, management, and executive leadership teams. The staff must understand the complexities of decarbonizing the building sector and the roles that policy, technology, infrastructure, and human behavior play. The candidates should also be aware of the social equity implications of building decarbonization and be able to develop strategies to ensure low-income and Black, Indigenous, and people of color benefit from such policies.

The candidates must have strong communication skills, with an ability to speak and write effectively using direct, concise, and non-technical language, and must be able to interact diplomatically with a wide range of interested parties and collaborators. The candidates should be comfortable making presentations and communicating to non-technical persons. The candidates must be detail-oriented and organized and possess well-developed project management skills, allowing them to manage multiple high-priority assignments under accelerated and competing deadlines while consistently delivering high-quality work products. The candidates must also be adaptable to a rapidly changing policy and political environment, and be comfortable with a flexible and highly collaborative management structure based on cross-branch project teams. The candidates must be committed to working closely with other CARB staff, government agencies, advocates, and other interested parties. We are looking for team players with a positive attitude and sense of humor.

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.