Hi all,

The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at NYU School of Law is looking for its next Communications Director, and I would like to encourage anyone interested to apply. The job, which I’ve held for the past year, involves promoting the work of state attorneys general as they take on the Trump administration’s environmental deregulatory agenda in court.

State AGs are playing a leading role in leading the resistance on issues that have been driving the national environmental news cycle over the past two years. These issues include the legal battle over the rollback of our national clean car standards, the future of the Clean Power Plan, offshore drilling, seismic testing, the Endangered Species Act, NEPA, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, PFAS and much more.

Given the wide scope of the issues that you will be working on, this position offers an up-and-coming communications professional an excellent opportunity to establish strong working relationships with environmental journalists and media contacts around the country, and puts you on the front lines of the fight to preserve our nation’s bedrock environmental laws and policies. A complete job description is below. Thanks!

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Summary

The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center (“State Impact Center”) supports state attorneys general in defending and promoting clean energy, climate and environmental laws and policies. The non-partisan State Impact Center provides assistance to AGs in a number of ways, including:

• Providing legal assistance to interested AGs on specific administrative, judicial or legislative matters involving clean energy, climate change and environmental interests of regional and national significance.

• Working with interested AGs to identify and hire NYU Law Fellows who serve as special assistant AGs in state AG offices, focusing on clean energy, climate and environmental matters. 

• Serving as a centralized public source of information for ongoing AG initiatives and helping to enhance the public’s understanding of the importance of the clean energy, climate change and environmental matters that AGs are pursuing.

• Undertaking academic research, holding workshops, and issuing special reports that advance legal and policy analysis on clean energy, climate change and environmental issues. 

The State Impact Center is recruiting a Communications Director to promote the work of state AGs who have taken on an outsize role in defending and advancing environmental, climate and clean energy values, policies and regulations. Effective communications are a key priority for the State Impact Center, and the Communications Director will be involved in every aspect of the Center’s work.

In particular, the Communications Director will work closely with the State Impact Center’s executive and deputy directors, and with subject matter experts in state AG offices, to message important clean energy, climate change and environmental legal actions to national, state and trade press outlets.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience leading communications campaigns across media, familiarity with clean energy, climate and environmental policy, and working relationships with reporters and opinion leaders working in the field.

Responsibilities:

·      Seek opportunities to insert AGs and/or the Center into the news cycle

·      Work closely with AG communications staff

·      Collaborate with third-parties to identify opportunities for AGs to engage and ensure awareness of AG actions

·      Draft press releases, newsletters, statements, op-eds, memos, talking points, speeches and other materials

• Develop and maintain relationships with journalists who cover clean energy, climate change and environmental issues

·      Serve as the spokesperson and primary point of contact for media inquiries

• Build the Center’s social media presence, especially on Twitter, an important tool for engaging with reporters and highlighting AGs’ work
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications (required):

• Demonstrated ability to proactively and consistently garner earned media attention
• Self-starter who relishes pressure, tight deadlines and working within a team in a fast-paced environment
• Experience developing and managing issue communications strategies
• Excellent writing, editing, proofreading and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity with clean energy, climate change and environmental policies, and a demonstrated ability to understand and effectively communicate these issues
• Minimum of five years professional experience
• Bachelor’s degree in related field

 Qualifications (desired):

• Experience working in a state AG office or with legal experts and/or lawyers
• Nonprofit or government experience
• Experience working on issue or political campaigns

 Interested candidates can apply by sending a resume and cover letter to stateimpactcenter@nyu.edu. 

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