The UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation (LCI) seeks a dynamic professional to serve as Associate Manager of Heat Equity Research. The Associate Manager is responsible for strategically developing, managing, and executing LCI’s Heat Equity research, which encompass policy, planning, and actionable data to enable communities to become more resilient to chronically hotter conditions under climate change. Current projects in the portfolio focus on shade master planning, policies for mitigating and managing heat in schools, and other research that informs equitable and effective heat governance, policy, and plans. The Associate Manager will oversee a growing portfolio of projects that include enhancing state and federal investments in community heat mitigation and management. The work seeks to reduce heat exposure for vulnerable populations to support wellbeing where people live, work, learn, and play.
Reporting to the Associate Faculty Director, the Associate Manager of Heat Equity Research serves as an integral leader of the LCI team. The role includes:
- Supporting and driving strategy by communicating with faculty members and civic partners to understand the landscape of past, current, and future research opportunities with the goal to leverage LCI strengths and maximize impact for public benefit.
- Developing grant proposals, which involves identifying funding opportunities and supporting faculty affiliates to pursue their research grant priorities.
- Managing and providing research assistance on projects. Responsibilities will include serving as a liaison to funders and partners; coordinating advisory committees; preparing literature reviews; developing frameworks; analyzing climate policies/plans; analyzing data from secondary and primary data sources; organizing research findings; supervising graduate student researchers; and writing technical reports and other deliverables.
- Translating and communicating research strategically to target audiences. She/he will work with faculty principal investigators (PIs) to distill their peer-reviewed research into policy-friendly formats that are digestible for public consumption. S/he will proactively identify and pursue opportunities to bring LCI’s research to decision-makers and influencers.