Job Listing -California Air Resources Board
The California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Community Planning Section within the Office of Community Air Protection (OCAP) is looking for an enthusiastic, creative, and policy-oriented staff person to participate in a team of technical and policy staff developing and implementing innovative and creative strategies for reducing toxic air contaminants and criteria air pollutant emissions within highly impacted communities throughout California. OCAP is focused on implementing the Community Air Protection Program, as directed by Assembly Bill 617 (C. Garcia). AB 617 is transformative legislation that provides important new tools to make sure that all communities benefit equally from our clean air programs, especially those that bear the greatest burdens. OCAP works closely with other divisions within CARB, local air districts, community groups, environmental groups, and regulated industries to achieve its goals.
The position is in the Community Planning Section of OCAP. As part of this team you will actively contribute to the discussion with public and private stakeholders on the needs, challenges and strategies that will make California’s communities cleaner. You will help develop creative solutions and implement strategies to reduce harmful emissions, with a focus on Northern California communities. This may include: participating in internal multi-division teams and external stakeholder groups, developing plans and emission reduction strategies, building our understanding of the cumulative impacts of various sources and sectors on communities, analyzing data, researching trends, working with emissions, monitoring, and air quality modeling data, preparing and presenting issues and policies to CARB management and stakeholders, tracking the development of regulations and other initiatives to reduce emissions, preparing and presenting comprehensive reports, collaborating with other CARB divisions, local air districts, community members, environmental groups, and sector experts to evaluate technical and policy proposals, and representing CARB in public forums.
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