Senior High Seas Advocate

Organization

NRDC

Department

Not Specified

Organization URL

Job Location Type

HYBRID

Job Location

United States    

Applicant Location Requirements

United States    

Application Deadline

Until Filled

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is the nation’s most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our staff helped write some of America’s bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, and many of the implementing regulations; our water enforcement cases played a major role shaping current water policy throughout the country. Today, our staff of more than 500 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy and communications experts, and others, work out of offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Bozeman, Montana, and Beijing.

Position Summary

As the Oceans Sector’s Senior High Seas Advocate, this position will be responsible for leading NRDC’s work to promote robust implementation of the new high seas treaty through advocacy at the United Nations and in other fora.

This position reports to the High Seas Director, Oceans Division in the Nature Program.

This is a full-time, two-year limited term role.

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