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Employment Opportunities

The Office of Sustainability is currently hiring for several summer fellowships, including:  

International Sustainability Research Fellow

Become a 2013 International Sustainability Research Fellow and spend the summer working overseas. The Yale Office of Sustainability, in partnership with the International Alliance of Research Universities, will select two fellows placed with either the University of Cambridge or the University of Copenhagen for a six to eight week period between June 1st and August 15th (different dates may be arranged under special circumstances). Students will be hosted by the Office of Sustainability or equivalent. Upon their return, students will be hired to work with the Yale Office of Sustainability for the academic year 2013-14.

Applicants must be returning Yale undergraduate or graduate students of any major.

Interested applicants must submit a resume, cover letter, and one page essay describing how this opportunity fits into their studies and professional interests by close of business on Monday, April 8th, 2013 to sarah.compton@yale.edu with "IARU Fellowship 2013" in the subject line.

Summer Research Assistant Position: Campus Energy & GHG Analysis

This research assistant will work on two separate projects related to the development and presentation of energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) performance metrics.

Project 1: Support development, testing, and preparation of a user’s manual for Yale Facilities Energy Explorer (a publicly accessible database providing energy data for every building at Yale).

Project 2: Help develop improved processes and guidelines for development of Yale University’s GHG inventory, including defining a GHG boundary based on a complex system of owned, rented and leased buildings.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

  • Knowledge and experience with GHG and energy analysis
  • Excellent Microsoft Excel skills and/or database experience
  • Experience or knowledge of online portal that communicates resource consumption to campus users
  • Technical writing experience
  • Strong oral communication skills
  • A self-starter and independent worker capable of collaborating with a diverse group of staff

The candidate’s enthusiasm, initiative, and problem solving skills are pertinent to the success of these unique projects.

Interested applicants should submit a résumé and brief cover letter to keri.enright-kato@yale.edu.

Summer Research Assistant Position: Technology Case Study Writer

This research assistant will assist in the development of a template for case study write ups on pilot projects that test building/energy/water technologies at Yale University. The write up will be designed to allow Yale staff to share lessons learned, advance dialogue internally and externally around built environment issues, and encourage further exploration of new technologies.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

  • Knowledge and experience of the built environment and building engineering
  • Knowledge and experience in technical writing
  • Superb oral and written communication skills
  • A self-starter and independent worker capable of collaborating with a diverse group of staff

The candidate’s enthusiasm, initiative, and problem solving skills are pertinent to the success of this unique project.

Interested applicants should submit a résumé and brief cover letter to keri.enright-kato@yale.edu.

Sustainability Outreach Fellow

This position is designed to provide hands-on experience to a current student or recent graduate with an interest in sustainability campus engagement. The selected candidate will be offered hands-on, project-based assignments. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Updating the Yale Green Workplace Certification to reflect goals outlined in the Yale Sustainability Strategic Plan 2.0
  • Developing, editing, and updating web content
  • Supporting the development and implementation of department-level sustainability strategies around campus
  • Establishing work-plans for outreach-related projects for the coming academic year

Specific projects will be assigned to the fellow based on interests and experience as well as the overall composition of the summer team.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

This position is open to current college students and recent graduates who have been out of school for two years or less, students between their first and second year of a master’s degree, or a recent graduate of a master’s degree program. We welcome Yale and non-Yale candidates.

Candidates must demonstrate solid research and writing skills, a strong grasp of sustainability terms and concepts, the ability to work independently, exceptional organizational skills, the ability to communicate ideas, and proven leadership experience.

This paid position will provide the candidate with the opportunity to develop skills to be an effective sustainability leader.

Date of Fellowship: May – August 2013 (exact dates negotiable)

Hours per week: 40

Number of weeks: 16

Stipend: Hourly rate based on experience

Interested applicants should submit a résumé and brief cover letter to sustainability@yale.edu no later than April 12.

Research Collaborative Coordinator

A joint-position between Princeton University and the Yale Office of Sustainability

Background:

The sustainability field has identified a significant disconnect between campus sustainability implementation and basic research that could inform decisions and implementation processes at the core of these endeavors. The Sustainable Research Collaborative (SRC), formed jointly by the Yale and Princeton offices of sustainability responds to this need by engaging undergraduate and graduate students in investigations leading to improved sustainability implementation within higher education. Research fellows recruited from participating Ivy League institutions will investigate key questions in a collaborative research environment with partner sustainability programs at Ivy+ institutions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The primary role of the coordinator, stationed at either Yale or Princeton, will be to engage with and guide the collaborative process across multiple institutions and with multiple student-led research teams.

  • Organize a virtual orientation session/webinar at the start of summer
  • Assess the level of support each research team needs
  • Develop milestones and timelines catered to each research team’s needs, and take the lead scheduling meetings if necessary
  • Assist research teams in early draft editing
  • Organize a collective virtual symposium at the end of the summer
  • Work closely with the directors of the Yale and Princeton Offices of Sustainability
  • Apply collaborative technology where appropriate to maintain effective day-to-day working relationships across geographic distances, with in-person meeting scheduled when feasible
  • Organize an end-of-summer virtual program conference where all participants will present their results

Desired Skills & Abilities

  • Very strong self-starter and independent worker capable of collaborative team management
  • Extremely capable with time management and organizational skills
  • Strong writing and editorial skills in the academic publication arena
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Computer skills including fluency in various collaborative tools (Google docs, etc.)

Applicant must be a currently matriculated undergraduate or graduate student in good standing and must be willing to commit to the position starting part-time during the spring term 2013, and full-time during the summer with a minimum of June 1 – August 1.

Interested applicants should submit a résumé and brief cover letter to sarah.compton@yale.edu no later than April 12.

Graduate Research Fellow, Sustainability Research Collaborative

A joint-position between Princeton University and the Yale Office of Sustainability

Background:

The sustainability field has identified a significant disconnect between campus sustainability implementation and basic research that could inform decisions and implementation processes at the core of these endeavors. 

The Sustainable Research Collaborative (SRC), formed jointly by the Yale and Princeton offices of sustainability responds to this need by engaging undergraduate and graduate students in investigations leading to improved sustainability implementation within higher education.

The Yale and Princeton Offices of Sustainability jointly seek to engage a summer graduate student research fellow to build on foundational research completed in the summer and fall of 2012.

Our particular interest is in identifying higher education sustainability performance patterns linked with bioregional environmental drivers. For example, we seek to determine whether water use reduction performance metrics reported by institutions in desert bioregions reflect the ecological needs or restrictions of the region. Other metrics of interest include greenhouse gas emissions, food procurement, and waste generation.

Duties and responsibilities:

The primary role of the fellow, stationed at either Yale or Princeton, will be to work closely with the two sustainability directors and conduct ongoing analysis of the STARS metrics database. Building on baseline analysis conducted in the summer of 2012, the 2013 fellow will update the database with new institutional entries and engage in deeper analysis of sustainability performance metrics across higher education.

  • Organize regular update meetings with the two directors
  • Conduct a high quality literature review, and efficiently summarize key findings
  • Evaluate next steps in analysis
  • Produce a written document that will serve as the foundation for publication

Desired Skills & Abilities:

  • Very strong self-starter and independent worker capable of collaborative team work
  • Strong ability to apply analytical skills, including statistical, to highly variable datasets
  • Strong proficiency in Excel or similar spreadsheet and database manipulation
  • Very capable with time management and organizational skills
  • Demonstrable written and editorial skills in the academic publication arena
  • Ability to focus on achievable research objectives

Applicant must be a currently matriculated grad student in good standing and must be willing to commit to the position June 1 – August 1, full-time, with no other work commitments. Some exceptions may be made if there are limited obligations elsewhere on campus. There is no expectation to extend the position beyond summer, but some flexibility in start and end date is possible.

Interested applicants should submit a résumé and brief cover letter to sarah.compton@yale.edu no later than April 12.

Ivy Plus Bench-marking Research Position

This research assistant position will work on two separate projects related to campus greenhouse gas analysis. Your time will be divided between projects with report outs to Yale University Office of Sustainability and Harvard University Office of Sustainability. While you will be located either in New Haven or Boston, travel between the two cities will be required (travel related expenses will be covered).

Project 1: Help define and analyze performance metrics for select building types and comparisons. A major focus of this will be on labs, IT, and preservation spaces (museums and libraries).

Project 2: Help develop a greenhouse gas protocol and normalizing metrics for a more accurate comparison of institutions energy use within the Ivy Plus consortium.

Work for both projects will include:

  1. Defining and analyzing building typology (i.e. libraries, labs, museums, laboratories).
  2. Collecting and analyzing data on energy, water, population, and square footage.
  3. General Green House Gas analysis

Desired Skills and Abilities:

  • Knowledge and experience with greenhouse gas and energy analysis.
  • Familiarity and knowledge of laboratory spaces and energy use within.
  • Excellent Microsoft Excel skills and/or data base experience
  • Microsoft PowerPoint experience
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • A self-starter and independent worker capable of working with a diverse group of staff.
  • Comfortable with a flexible work-flow and reporting out to two organizations.

The candidate’s enthusiasm, initiative, and problem solving skills will be important to the success of this unique project.

Note: This is an 8 week full time summer position to be filled between June-August 2012 (exact dates may be flexible). $16-20/hour based on experience

Interested applicants should submit a résumé and brief cover letter to keri.enright-kato@yale.edu no later than April 29.