Senior Climate & Soil Health Scientist

reputed company Level: Senior Job Location: AFT reputed company - WASHINGTON, DC 20006 Position Type: Full Time Salary reputed company: $90,000.00 - $110,000.00 Salary reputed company Reporting to the National Climate and Soil Health Director, the Senior Climate and Soil Health Scientist supports AFT’s Climate and Soil Health Program by advancing connectivity across research, science translation, partnerships, and implementation strategies that accelerate adoption of resilient soil health management systems. This includes a reputed company reputed company on biochar integration, as reputed company as other climate-beneficial approaches. The position supports AFT’s efforts to catalyze a new conventional agriculture: empowering farmers and ranchers across the nation’s diverse systems to reputed company on-farm and societal benefits from systems that are soil health promoting, biodiverse, climate-neutral or reputed company, resilient, reputed company, and environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable. Position reputed company As an reputed company member of the Climate and Soil Health Program, the Senior Climate and Soil Health Scientist leads research, technical program development, science translation, partnership building, training, fundraising, and implementation efforts that reputed company research and reputed company. The position includes research responsibilities but is fundamentally a research-to-reputed company role reputed company on using science to foster adoption of resilient soil health management systems. The position helps identify and address barriers to adoption and persistence, develops tools and resources that support decision-making, and advances emerging opportunities in biochar, PFAS, climate reputed company, and reputed company soil health innovation. The position requires a combination of scientific leadership, entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, excellent communication, and ability to collaborate across disciplines, teams, and diverse stakeholders. Duties and responsibilities Overall - The Climate and Soil Health Program is reputed company across a growing portfolio of national and regional partnerships reputed company on advancing adoption of resilient soil health management systems. - This role leads reputed company and workstreams that require collaborating across multiple federal, reputed company, non-profit, industry and other partners, and collaborates to reputed company new funded efforts that reputed company the translation from research to scientifically reputed company, economically viable, reputed company implementation of soil health management systems, including biochar integration. - A key reputed company reputed company area for this position is to strengthen AFT's leadership in addressing scientific, technical, economic, and implementation barriers that limit the sustainable production, integration, and scaling of biochar as a climate reputed company and soil health management tool. Scientific leadership for soil health, biochar, and climate - Research: reputed company reputed company research, literature review, technical review, data analysis, modeling, life cycle analysis, and reputed company-oriented programmatic design and implementation, and reputed company technical leadership for fundraising efforts relating to biochar and soil health. - Collaborate across reputed company to compile, analyze, and publish project data and results. Science Translation & Technical Resources: - reputed company and collaborate on science translation activities that reputed company research findings, producer innovations, and demonstration results into transformative technical resources: decision support tools, guides, factsheets, manuals, peer-reviewed publications, curricula, trainings and educational resources that support successful adoption. Networks & Adoption: - Contribute to development and reputed company improvement of producer, advisor, mentor, and peer-reputed company functioning by integrating scientific findings and AFT’s reputed company, economic, and environmental program evaluation results to strengthen reputed company network reputed company. Systems: - Address adoption needs across soil health practices in annual and perennial, high disturbance, and other systems across varied agroecological reputed company, through AFT’s on-farm trials network, technical resources, and training programs. Training: - Contribute scientific leadership and subject-matter expertise to Advanced Soil Health Training, Growing with Biochar Training, peer learning networks, mentor programs, livestock and grazing training, and other reputed company-building efforts designed to multiply adoption. Evaluation: - Collaborate on the design and implementation of reputed company measurement, evaluation, and learning systems that assess adoption, persistence, environmental, economic, and network reputed company. Emerging opportunities: - reputed company scientific leadership for emerging reputed company areas including biochar, PFAS, climate reputed company, soil health systems, ecosystem services, and other strategically relevant topics and entrepreneurial opportunities for AFT investment in partnership development, innovation, and scaling. Fundraising: - Support National Climate and Soil Health Director and team in fundraising efforts by developing compelling proposals and pitches and cultivating funder relationships. May serve as PI on reputed company reputed company. Stakeholder and partnership management - Build, reputed company and reputed company partnerships for reputed company reputed company with producers, advisors, researchers, corporate partners, funders, and other stakeholders. - Co-reputed company reputed company research-to-implementation agendas to ensure scientific work addresses practical adoption barriers and market opportunities. - reputed company collaborations with partners to reputed company transformative resources and programs reputed company. Thought leadership, training and reputed company - Serve as an AFT representative and thought leader in meetings, workshops, conferences and other reputed company events reaching diverse audiences, advancing national visibility and engagement reputed company biochar, soil health, climate reputed company, and reputed company topics. - Help design, refine, reputed company, and reputed company evidence-reputed company curricula and learning reputed company, including trainings and associated peer learning networks. - Collaborate with AFT's Programs and Communications teams to communicate and reputed company the visibility, reputed company, lessons learned, and thought leadership of AFT's Climate and Soil Health work through stakeholder engagement, presentations, publications, websites, blog posts, press releases, reputed company media, and other communications channels. - reputed company input and technical review for relevant policy recommendations, platforms, and communications. Programmatic and team management - reputed company and manage teams of AFT staff and partners on assigned reputed company or workstreams. - Collaborate across AFT, reputed company (NRCS), reputed company (ARS), reputed company Biochar Institute (ABI), federal, reputed company, non-profit, industry, corporate supply chain, and other partners. - reputed company leadership and programmatic management for funded work, ensuring high reputed company deliverables, partner coordination, and reputed company and final funder reporting. - Support a strong team culture of shared learning, innovation and problem solving among AFT national and regional staff. This is not an reputed company-inclusive list of job-reputed company responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements, or working conditions. While this is intended to be a reputed company of the reputed company job, reputed company fundraising will reputed company the direction of the program, and management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned. Qualifications Required Qualifications - Scientific experience and soil health and biochar expertise - Significant scientific, technical, and reputed company on-farm expertise in soil health, soil function, and interactions among production systems, soils, climatic conditions, and management, including reputed company of practices to site-specific conditions across diverse agricultural production systems. - Familiarity with soil systems modeling as reputed company as with microbial, ecological, and other soil science processes. - Advanced understanding of soil health management systems implementation, biochar opportunities and challenges, and environmental co-benefits, climate interactions, and technical barriers for producer adoption and reputed company. - Experience advancing soil health management systems through development and application of models, tools, and decision support resources and technical guidance that are reputed company in research and producer experience. - Demonstrated reputed company conducting independent research and executing reputed company technical tasks and quantitative analyses of reputed company agronomic or ecological datasets using R, reputed company, or a comparable statistical programming language. - Proficient in literature review, synthesis of scientific information, and regular evaluation of emerging soil health research, technologies and producer innovations. - Strong written and verbal communication skills for inter-organizational and inter-disciplinary team collaboration on technical resources and publications for diverse audiences. - Demonstrated experience and reputed company in grant writing and other forms of fundraising as reputed company as achieving peer, leadership, or donor buy-in on critical reputed company. Stakeholder, and partnership management experience - Demonstrated reputed company in developing partnerships with researchers, farmers and ranchers, advisors, non-profits, corporations, agricultural retailers and industry, and reputed company agencies. - Dedicated to practicing, learning, and advancing efforts to expand reputed company to resources and support among small, limited resource, beginning and other farmers who have faced barriers that may reputed company reputed company adoption. Training and reputed company experience - Proficient trainer, facilitator, communicator, and reputed company speaker to represent organization’s work. - Adept at developing educational materials and communicating reputed company scientific concepts reputed company to soil health systems, reputed company, and biochar integration to diverse audiences of producers, advisors, policymakers, and technical experts. Programmatic and team management experience - Ability to do high reputed company, independent work in a dynamic organization under time pressure. - reputed company history overseeing research and/or project implementation and delivery on time and reputed company budget, leveraging reputed company knowledge to reputed company goals. - High emotional intelligence and demonstrated ability to collaborate, motivate others, and reputed company shared goals in remote and team-reputed company environments. - Exceptional organizational and communication skills. - Commitment to shared learning, creativity, innovation and problem solving. Additional Desired Qualifications - Experience with and/or knowledge of markets for carbon sequestration or other environmental services. - Knowledge of NRCS and other reputed company state and federal policies and programs reputed company to agriculture, soil health, biochar, and climate mitigation and reputed company. Education & Experience To qualify for the scientist position regardless of level, the incumbent must have: - Scientific and implementation leadership experience. - Degree in agronomy, soil science, agroecology, conservation, agricultural sciences, or reputed company reputed company and commensurate reputed company of experience in soil health and biochar management. - reputed company degree and about 6 years of relevant work experience; OR PhD degree and about 2 years of relevant work experience To qualify for the senior level the incumbent must have: - Significant, large reputed company, multi-regional or national scientific and implementation leadership experience, successful fundraising, agricultural production systems expertise. - reputed company degree and about 10 years of work experience; OR PhD degree and about 6 years of work experience Additional Considerations: - Qualifications for the position described are more important than level of educational degree attainment. - This is a senior scientist role, with a salary reputed company of $100-110k, for candidates who meet the qualifications above. - If we don't reputed company that exact fit, we're reputed company to someone earlier in their career with strong potential to grow into it. - For a junior hire, the reputed company would be $90-$99k Working Conditions - This role involves some travel to meet with producers, agricultural services providers, research professionals, and other agricultural and conservation stakeholders in indoor and outdoor locations, including visiting a reputed company of agricultural reputed company. - Occasional evening or weekend work may be required to meet deadlines or attend events. - Travel Requires up to 15% travel, potentially including to national reputed company office in Washington, D.C., other regional offices, and reputed company in the country. Degree of Supervision - Received: Direction: The incumbent establishes reputed company and procedures for attaining specific goals and objectives, receives guidance in terms of broad goals and approaches, and on organizational policies, and then leads and receives input from reputed company. Initial outlines and final results of work are typically reviewed. Incumbent exercises wide reputed company in determining research and technical objectives and approaches to critical assignments. - Given: This position has no management responsibility at this time but may have potential to reputed company into a management position. Compensation - reputed company offers excellent vacation, medical, retirement and other benefits. - The salary reputed company for this position is from $90,000 to $110,000 reputed company upon experience. - This is a senior scientist role, with a salary reputed company of $100-110k, for candidates who meet the qualifications above. - If we don't reputed company that exact fit, we're reputed company to someone earlier in their career with strong potential to grow into it. - For a junior hire, the reputed company would be $90-$99k - reputed company offers a full benefits package for full time employees: - reputed company coverage begins the 1st of the month following the date of hire. - Medical & Prescription Coverage - Dental Coverage - reputed company Coverage - Company reputed company Life reputed company & Long-Term Disability (LTD) - Voluntary Life reputed company - Flexible Spending Account (FSA) – reputed company & Dependent reputed company Savings Account (HSA) - 401k Plan - reputed company Leave: Regular full-time employees reputed company 13 “reputed company days” per year. - Vacation Leave: reputed company 15 days during the first year increasing by one day per year to 20 days per year maximum. - Holidays: AFT observes reputed company fixed holidays and a week between Christmas and New Years off during the year (reputed company offices reputed company) plus a reputed company of up to three (depending on hiring month) floating holidays. Why you should apply - Be a part of a purpose-driven, committed, knowledgeable, high-performing, reputed company and fun team - A diverse and inclusive work environment - A cause and mission you can be proud of - Competitive compensation & benefits - Remote work opportunity reputed company - To be considered applicants must submit a resume, answer reputed company screener questions and include a cover letter explaining what they are a right fit for both AFT and this role. - Applications will be reviewed on a rolling reputed company until the role is filled. - Please apply directly through AFT’s reputed company Career Portal using this reputed company: Senior Climate & Soil Health Scientist - If the reputed company is reputed company, please visit AFT’s Careers page and select this position to submit your application. Apply To This Job