OPEN POSITIONS
EPIC FELLOWS
Conservation X Labs is recruiting four summer “Epic Fellows”, to work closely with our team between May and August 2024. Each fellow will receive a stipend, and be expected to work in person in our Washington, D.C. headquarters. To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter to epicfellows@conservationxlabs.org by April 12, 2024.
Nature Tech Research Fellow
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The CEO of Conservation X Labs, Dr. Alex Dehgan, is seeking a full time summer fellow (start & end dates flexible) to work on a variety of special projects on capturing state-of-the-art knowledge on extinction research, biodiversity markets, conservation technology, frameworks and metrics coming out of Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, Nature-Positive Initiatives, Biodiversity Net Gain, and more, and the Monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) space.
The fellow will provide timely, in-depth knowledge across fast moving spaces. She/he will help synthesize scientific literature, produce landscape and ecosystem conceptual maps of the knowledge space, and integrate findings into Conservation X Labs' thought leadership work. The fellow will also help identify and write up case studies for examples of conservation technology and innovation, including looking at failures and successes, and the causes of both. This position will report directly to the CEO, and be managed by CXL's Research Manager.
The main office of Conservation X Labs is located in Washington, DC, at 1066 31st St NW off of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal in Georgetown.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Pursuing or recently completed an undergraduate degree in biology, conservation, environmental studies, or related degree.
Strong research, analysis, writing and communication skills to analyze research and results
Passionate about addressing pressing conservation challenges and suggesting solutions
Smart, capable, and excited to learn
Self-starter with a track record of working both on teams and independently
Willing to experiment, fail, and try again
Excellent organizational and time management skills: ability to prioritize and manage multiple deadlines and maintain a high degree of judgment and attention to detail
Ability to translate and synthesize ideas, work plans, and scientific and technical information
Forward thinking, creative, and innovative
Communications and Marketing Fellow
ABOUT THE ROLE:
This fellow will work with our Director of Marketing and Communications on Communications, PR, and Marketing activities at both the corporate and team level. This will include, but not be limited to – copywriting, content creation for social media, content calendar management for social media, story mining across the organization, writing up event speaker applications, running point on a larger push for SXSW panels and executing those applications, collecting relevant publication and journalist contact information and helping pitch reporters.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Rising Junior or Senior at 4-year college or university;
Communications or Marketing major or strong, demonstrated interest in Comms/ Marketing/ PR/ Storytelling;
Proficiency on social media platforms a must
Impact & Evaluation Fellow
ABOUT THE ROLE:
This Fellow will support Conservation X Labs in operationalizing our high-level framework for evaluating, organizing and ranking solutions to biodiversity loss across conservation and economic metrics, and gathering and analyzing evidence of the organization’s impact.
Extinction Solutions Index: Support data collection and analysis to evaluate solutions to the biodiversity crisis, building upon parallel work done by Project Drawdown on climate solutions. This includes analyzing the suitability of biodiversity metrics (IUCN Red List, PDF, MSA, etc.), gathering economic data on the potential of individual solutions (first cost, lifetime cost), and developing counterfactuals and baseline scenarios to compare solutions. Actively engage in Research Partner calls and briefings, and collaborate with a larger team in integrating data on solutions, and collecting and operationalizing ideas from partners.
Impact tracking: Support data collection and analysis of outcomes and impacts of CXL interventions across open innovation, in-house incubated technologies, and place-based conservation. Assist with integration of findings and lessons for learning, adaptive management, and strategic communications.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience (through education, work experience, or otherwise) in impact evaluation, metric/index development, or operationalizing conceptual frameworks;
Technical background or experience, aiming to solve tough challenges with practical and logical solutions;
Autonomy to work independently, but seek guidance and support as needed.
Desired:
Programming skills in Python.
Data science and data analysis experience.
Statistics, mathematics, or LCA background or experience
Fire Community Engagement Fellow
ABOUT THE ROLE:
The Fire Grand Challenge team at Conservation X Labs is seeking a team player with a passion for conservation, technology, community building, Indigenous and community engagement and research. This position will work closely with the Manager of the Fire Grand Challenge to help develop and implement partnership and innovator research, outreach, and recruitment for the Fire Grand Challenge. This role will include activities related to partner identification and outreach, challenge communications, innovator recruitment, data management, and associated research.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree or rising Junior or Senior at 4-year college or university
Experience and/or interest in working with Indigenous and community-led organizations or organizations that partner with Indigenous and/or other underserved communities.
Ability to translate ideas, work plans, and scientific and technical information into relatable and inspiring text and presentations.
Ability to work across cultures and disciplines, and to listen and learn from a diverse set of perspectives and stakeholders.
Exceptional writing and communication skills in English.
Spanish or Portuguese are desirable but not required.
ENGINEER, SCIENTIST, MAKER, HACKER, SUPER HERO
Conservation X Labs is always searching for extraordinarily creative and technologically literate individuals who are passionate about conservation. We are looking for synthetic biologists, microbiologists, biomedical engineers, electrical engineers, geospatial analysts, data scientists, machine vision and learning experts, behavioral economists, coders (web & application), and bioinformatics experts. As our work is moving into technology acceleration and scale, we seek individuals with experience in building funds, technology incubation and acceleration, and product development. In particular, we are looking for smart, iconoclastic, impact-oriented, intensively curious, annoyingly-optimistic, driven polymaths, with a deep passion for technology and conservation.
We want our applicants to be individuals who want to disrupt conservation to improve it. We are looking for those who have dared mighty things by trying a path that others have not chosen. Who have failed, but have learned from failure and risk. Who like to experiment, to make things, to hack things, to test things, and to break things (particularly dogmatic approaches to conservation). If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you at daremightythings@conservationxlabs.org.
