Built Environment Researcher for Buildings, Cities and Ecosystems

The Opportunity

This position is ideal for entry-level researchers who are passionate about advancing climate action and sustainability in the built environment. As a Research Support Specialist I you will help drive the College of Architecture Art and Plannings collaboration with the Atkinson Center for Sustainabilitys Radical Collaboration Initiative in Sustainability. Your work will focus on transdisciplinary research addressing the real-world sustainability challenges of planning designing constructing and living in buildings and cities.

Youll work closely with a principal investigator to design implement analyze and communicate research that may involve qualitative quantitative or mixed-methods approaches. Projects span a wide range of topics such as climate mitigation adaptation and resilience buildings and materials reuse ecosystem and social impacts environmental data and sustainability guidance and frameworks. Youll help coordinate research teams and partnerships and track research impacts on policy practice and public engagement.

This is a three-year term position with the possibility of renewal based on performance and funding. Its a great opportunity for someone looking to build meaningful experience at the intersection of sustainability and the built environment especially those interested in collaborative cross-disciplinary research.

About the College School Unit or Department

The College of Architecture Art and Planning at Cornell University (Cornell AAP) includes the departments of Architecture Art City and Regional Planning the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate jointly led by AAP and the SC Johnson College of Business the multicollege Department of Design Tech and the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities. The college spans three locations in Ithaca New York City and Rome Italy each with world-class facilities and cutting-edge technologies.

Cornell AAP is about acts of transformation. We are committed to reimagining and reshaping the world in new ways every day. A vital college at one of the nations foremost research universities Cornell AAP brings faculty staff and students together from around the world to take up some of todays most urgent challenges and advance research inquiry and collaborative approaches to designing making and doing that make a more just and resilient future.

What We Need

Were looking for someone with:

• A Bachelors degree in architecture urban planning environmental design sustainability or a related field plus 24 years of relevant research experience (or equivalent).
• Experience supporting research and working in collaborative project environments.
• Strong analytical organizational and communication skills.
• Proficiency with relevant tools or analysis methods appropriate to your background. Please specify your level of competence in areas such as:
  • 3D modeling
  • Visual scripting
  • Building performance and energy modeling
  • Social or environmental impact modeling such as life cycle assessment

If you have all those things great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have but its ok if you dont.

• Strong graphic written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines or sectors.
• Training in design architecture planning or visual arts research methods.
• Ability to conceptualize and implement research plans independently.
• Experience translating complex research for non-expert audiences.
• Familiarity with sustainable design principles and performance frameworks.
• Understanding of sustainability indicators and data visualization tools.
• Engagement with stakeholders across academic government nonprofit and corporate sectors.
• Awareness of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and how they relate to the built environment.

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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