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About the Role

NRDC is seeking a Senior Advocate, Adaptation to drive innovative solutions that enhance climate resilience. This role focuses on comprehensive risk management, particularly in homeowner insurance, and aims to address the homeowner insurance crisis precipitated by climate-influenced disasters. The Senior Advocate will work at the intersection of policy, research, and implementation to shape strategies for community and state resilience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement strategies that integrate climate risk considerations into insurance and financial products for homeowners.
• Work with governments, private sector, and financial institutions to design and promote innovative risk reduction and risk transfer mechanisms related to homeowner insurance.
• Collaborate with state and local governments, community organizations, and related stakeholders to enhance adaptive capacity and strengthen policies and incentives for climate adaptation using homeowner insurance as an entry point.
• Identify needed changes to homeowner insurance and resilience policy and practices and develop advocacy initiatives that result in their adoption and implementation.
• Support strategies for disaster resilience, climate mobility, and climate resilient workers, communities, and homes.
• Contribute to global and national dialogues on adaptation, advocating for inclusive and holistic approaches and represent NRDC in media interviews.
• Lead the development of presentations, reports, and research materials tailored to diverse audiences, including senior leadership, policymakers, and community organizations.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Climate Policy, Environmental Science, Economics, Geography, Public Policy, or a related field.
• Knowledge of the inner workings of the homeowner insurance industry and regulatory environment.
• Experience with the intersection of insurance mechanisms and comprehensive risk management to holistically address risks of climate change.
• Knowledge of funding mechanisms for adaptation, including blended finance and public-private partnerships.
• Experience working in and/or partnering with governments, private sector, and community organizations on adaptation initiatives.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder and community engagement skills, with the ability to translate complex adaptation concepts into actionable strategies.
• Strong qualitative and quantitative analytical skills, writing/editing, and interpersonal skills.
• A demonstrated understanding of the disproportionate burden of climate impacts on historically and currently marginalized communities and the root causes of climate vulnerabilities.
• Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and NRDC’s mission.

Skills

• Climate risk management
• Insurance industry knowledge
• Financial product development
• Risk reduction mechanisms
• Risk transfer mechanisms
• Policy analysis
• Advocacy
• Stakeholder engagement
• Community engagement
• Analytical skills
• Writing and editing
• Interpersonal skills

Location

• Chicago
• Denver
• Los Angeles
• New York City
• San Francisco
• Washington, D.C.
• Beijing
• London
• New Delhi

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Master's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $130,000 to $150,000

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent benefits
• Supportive working environment

About the Company

• NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends.
• NRDC combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.
• As an international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is working to address the world’s most urgent environmental challenges, and advance innovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions.
• Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America’s foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.
• Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace.
• Our team works across the United States and around the world, from offices in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Beijing, London, and New Delhi (a subsidiary of NRDC India Pvt. Ltd.).
• Supported by our members and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
• At NRDC, we believe lasting change happens when people bring their talent, passion, and expertise together for a common purpose: to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world.
• Learn more at nrdc.org.

Equal Opportunity

• NRDC is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our work and in our workplace.
• We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planet's most pressing environmental problems, and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.