Month: July 2020 (Page 3 of 6)

The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) serves as the public, environmental and occupational health laboratory for the State of Wisconsin. This position independently provides a wide variety of program support to administrative, supervisory and support services for the Environmental Health Division at the WSLH’s Agriculture Drive location.

Primary responsibilities include: provide a broad range of knowledge regarding water sampling and testing to effectively meet the needs of customers; look up results for customers; interpret results and make decisions that directly affect the general public based upon the rules and policies mandated by the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act Program (SDWA) and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR); support the laboratory information management system (LIMS). Other duties include: detailed record keeping and verification of code and regulatory compliance using knowledge of local, state, and federal rules and regulations related to public health. This position also enters and verifies sample information in the LIMS and queries the database for sample information and status, and releases results to customers, which include federal and state agencies, particularly the WI Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) and WI Department of Health Services (WDHS), universities, public water systems, health departments and private homeowners. Additionally, this position provides data and information from the LIMS to WSLH analysts and other employees. This may include contacting customers in cases of missing information and provides feedback to customers on data.

Application Deadline: August 5, 2020

We are searching for a dynamic teammate to support a new crew of legal empowerment advocates in Maryland and Washington DC. This is an opportunity to build an approach to environmental justice that could hold promise for the whole country. We have identified extraordinary advocates to form our first U.S. legal empowerment team– people like Fred Tutman, the only black River Keeper in the country, and Rhonda Hamilton, who has led her neighborhood in Buzzards Point to take on pollution and gentrification at the same time. The advocates are learning from each other and deepening their work together.

We’ve just begun: the EJ Program Officer will help build this pilot into something lasting and powerful.

In collaboration with our team, the Officer will support legal empowerment advocates and the communities they’re serving to understand environmental regulation, and to pursue concrete remedies to environmental injustice. The Officer will equip the advocates to engage creatively across the institutional landscape—from departments of environment and public health to zoning boards—especially as federal regulation has weakened.

The climate science strategic communications team at ECF is the organization’s bridge between the scientific and climate community, translating pieces of scientific research into impactful communications work, and engaging with complex scientific issues that shape key climate debates. 

The team helps connect the scientific evidence for action on climate change at an international, national and sectoral level, and works with scientists and scientific institutes to showcase their work. 

In this role you will work with the Climate Science Strategic Communications Lead,  supporting the developing media debate around climate science and climate policy. The core of your work will see you researching and monitoring news trends, assisting colleagues in fast-paced work to connect with news cycles, handling editorial calendars, producing newsletters, and working with the Climate Science Lead on identifying story ideas that work for both legacy and digital media. On any given week you could be helping support the launch of key pieces of research, events, or reports.