Location: Candidates based in or able to regularly come to Oxford and London, UK are preferred; other regions possible
Carbon Gap is a climate not-for-profit focused on eliminating the carbon dioxide that’s already heating up the planet. We exist to drive essential climate action by making Europe a leader in carbon removal, working with governments, scientists, NGOs, and businesses to unlock policy support for the full spectrum of carbon removal methods, storing carbon safely in trees, soils, oceans, rocks, and the built environment.
Joining our team means being at the forefront of a new field of climate action in a new kind of organisation. We’re a young team that’s growing quickly; we’re philanthropically funded and don’t answer to any outside interests; we have a start-up mentality that lets us move fast and experiment; and we’re committed to being an honest voice for the planet on climate change and carbon removal.
Carbon removal, alongside emissions reductions, is absolutely essential to preserving a stable climate. We’re focused on addressing the knowledge, policy, and ambition gaps that are holding us back from a carbon removal ecosystem that delivers real progress on climate change.
Leadership from all European countries is critical, both for ensuring that carbon removal can reach the scale necessary to achieve global climate goals, and for ensuring that a progressive vision of carbon removal can emerge that is not dominated by fossil or other corporate interests.
Europe needs carbon removal in order to:
Carbon removal needs Europe because no other region has both the financial muscle and the political will to scale crucial new climate solutions. Europe needs carbon removal, and carbon removal needs Europe, but neither has a dedicated and honest voice speaking for carbon removal on behalf of the climate. Carbon Gap will be that voice.
These are one-year, full-time fellowships with the possibility to transition to a permanent role. As Carbon Removal Science and Policy Fellow, you will join the Chief Science and Advocacy Officer to generate and refine impactful proposals for carbon removal policy and advocacy, while supporting the establishment of Carbon Gap’s world-leading expertise on the emerging field of carbon removal. You’ll work daily with an established and respected expert in the field and have frequent exposure to other leaders across government, industry, and academia.
You’ll be deeply immersed from Day 1 in a high-impact climate policy startup, involved in everything Carbon Gap does and growing alongside the team. The role will include research, writing, strategy, and project coordination; typical days may see you developing an amendment to a piece of UK climate legislation, researching EU carbon farming certification standards, co-creating projects and partnerships to drive more effective corporate climate action, scheduling, preparing for, and attending meetings with policymakers and subject matter experts, and managing agendas and tracking progress on various projects.
This is an ideal role for a recent graduate from an undergraduate or graduate program with a significant focus on climate, environment, and policy issues. By the end of your fellowship, you will have a wide network across the carbon removal and climate fields and be prepared for both business and policy-oriented career opportunities.
Research and Analysis (60%)