Environmental Scientist

• Lead and support qualitative research, stakeholder engagement, and communications addressing environmental and natural resource challenges
• Contribute to projects involving water resources, agriculture, energy, climate resilience, natural hazards, and environmental risk communication
• Design and conduct qualitative and mixed-methods research, including interviews, focus groups, listening sessions, and surveys
• Analyze and synthesize qualitative information through thematic coding, systems mapping, and related approaches
• Integrate qualitative and quantitative data to identify patterns and generate actionable recommendations
• Design and implement stakeholder and community engagement strategies using human-centered design, co-creation, participatory research, and workshop facilitation
• Translate complex scientific and technical information into accessible reports, visualizations, decision graphics, presentations, and digital content
• Lead research tasks and multidisciplinary project teams
• Coordinate staff and partners; manage schedules, budgets, deliverables, and quality assurance
• Communicate with clients through writing, meetings, and presentations
• Support business development through opportunity identification, proposal strategy and writing, partner engagement, and cultivation of research, funding opportunities, and client relationships
• Build collaborative relationships across disciplines, organizations, and stakeholder groups
• Develop and evaluate decision-support tools and communication products
• Contribute to research design, project and task management, client management, proposal development, and strategic business development

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