Climate & Financial Regulation Policy Advocate

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Public Citizen’s Climate Program is looking for smart, creative, resourceful, diligent, and dogged analysts to advance our policy development and advocacy at the intersection of climate and financial regulation. This is a new and exciting policy area, and we are making a big impact.

We are advancing a broad, ambitious agenda of financial regulatory policies that advance a swift, safe transition away from fossil fuels and promote rather than impede racial, economic, and intergenerational justice. We advocate for market rules, including on disclosures, credit ratings, claims that investment products or services are “green,” and more, to empower investors to avoid climate-related risks and use their dollars to advance their values. We are also working to incorporate climate considerations into a broad set of banking and insurance regulatory tools—supervisory guidance and examinations, scenario analysis, the designation and supervision of systemically important nonbank financial companies, capital regulation, community reinvestment rules, and the use of concentration limits, portfolio limits, or other activity limits.

Responsibilities

• Policy development and advocacy: Identify emerging issues and opportunities and help develop policy proposals. Assist with or take the lead on drafting white papers, reports, fact sheets, letters, testimony, and comments on proposed rules. Advocate before Congress and administrative agencies. Help plan and execute legislative and administrative advocacy campaigns. Collaborate with others on developing plans to engage activists in influencing policy.
• Outreach and collaboration: Represent Public Citizen in public forums. Participate actively in coalitions and, where appropriate, help organize and lead them.
• Media and public education: Develop and maintain media relationships and respond to press inquiries, serving as a spokesperson. Help develop research and media strategies in coordination with other staff. Write editorial board memoranda, press releases, op-eds, letters to the editor, and blog posts.
• Making things happen: Above all, make a difference. Write the papers, recruit the partners, hold the meetings, work with the coalitions, lobby the regulators or members of Congress, organize the event—do what’s needed to win.
• Other duties as necessary.

qualifications

Knowledge of or experience in banking and finance is a plus and, failing that, an eagerness to learn and ability to learn quickly. Outstanding analytical thinking, judgment, and oral and written communication skills. Independence and strong impulses toward self-starting and self-finishing. Ability to execute planned strategy while reacting to new developments and to balance multiple projects and priorities. Collaborative spirit, high energy, and enthusiasm. Willingness to work long hours when necessary.

SALARY AND BENEFITS: Competitive salary and generous benefit package. This is a grant-contingent position. Below is a list of some of our benefits (please note that some benefits have eligibility requirements).

Salary range: $76,598–$127,060

Benefits include:

• Great medical and dental coverage, 100% paid by PC, including full coverage for children
• Three weeks paid vacation for new employees, plus five personal days
• 401K plan with a 5% contribution from PC after one year of employment
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave after one year of employment
• Sabbatical after 10 years of employment
• Student loan reimbursement program

TO APPLY: Submit a single document that includes a cover letter, resume, and writing sample of no more than five pages to [email protected]. Please include your last name and the position for which you are applying in the subject line of your email and the filename of your attachment. Women, people of color, people who identify as LGBTQ+, and multilingual speakers are encouraged to apply. No phone calls please.

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