Join the CCAI core team!
CCAI is looking for new core team members to play leading roles in
the organization’s ongoing activities. Core team members are volunteers
who are expected to dedicate at least 5 hours of time per week. Most core team
members have a background
in either machine learning or areas relevant to climate change (such
as energy, transportation, climate science, etc.), and a strong
interest in both topics. Update: Applications due March 28th, 2022.
We are looking for the following in core team members, in addition to the role-specific requirements listed alongside each role description:
- Mission alignment: Team members must be passionate about catalyzing impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning, per our mission, goals, and guiding principles.
- Proactiveness and responsibility: Team members must be proactive and responsible to ensure our organization can run as effectively as possible.
- Time commitment: Team members are expected to dedicate around 5 hours of volunteer time per week, including conference calls, and be responsive on Slack.
- Attention to detail: Team members are mindful of the work that they carry out, which helps CCAI ensure high quality of its activities.
- Team ethic: Team members must be able to work productively and collaboratively with team members, and otherwise foster a collegial environment.
- Comfort working in a digital environment: CCAI’s team is based across the world, and communicates primarily using Slack and video conferencing tools. While we are happy to onboard newcomers to the particular technologies we use, core team members must in general be comfortable working and collaborating in a primarily digital environment.
- Curiosity: CCAI is always embarking on new ventures and looking for new projects. We encourage new ideas from within (and outside) the team!
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion: We are an interdisciplinary and international team and believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are not only fundamental to the organization but also to progress in addressing climate change as a whole. Team members are expected to hold DEI as a central consideration when organizing and executing CCAI activities.
Climate change is a global problem that requires global thinking. We accept applications from anywhere in the world. While CCAI has organized in-person events (pre-pandemic), all of the core work is done remotely.
We don’t require a specific degree or a particular academic/professional background: If you are responsible and enthusiastic, there may be a place for you on the core team.
CCAI is a fast-moving and fun environment to help facilitate meaningful and immediate climate action with machine learning. Working with CCAI will provide you with opportunities to acquire new skills, expand your network, and curate knowledge.
Below is a list of roles for which CCAI is currently recruiting. Please apply
by filling out this form. If you are
interested in joining but do not fit any of the specific roles, we still
encourage you to apply and describe in your application how you see yourself
contributing to CCAI. Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.
Update: Applications due March 28th, 2022.
Open positions
Blog
CCAI is recruiting an Editor in Chief (EiC) for the recently-launched CCAI blog. The blog offers a platform for the organization and its community members to publish articles on topics at the intersection of machine learning and climate change. Types of articles include research summaries, perspective pieces, and interviews.
The new EiC of the CCAI blog will be responsible for recruiting and shepherding articles, overseeing interactions with authors, helping to maintain the blog website, and working on the strategic expansion of the blog and its scope.
Position-specific requirements:
- Strong writing and editing skills
- Experience with blogging
- Experience with science and/or policy communication
- Experience with Markdown and HTML basics
- Interest in directly engaging with members of the CCAI community from various fields and sectors
Optional but preferred skills:
- Experience with community building
Career events
CCAI is looking for someone to lead its new “Career Events” initiative. This initiative aims to develop events to spotlight job opportunities relevant to the intersection of climate change and artificial intelligence, and foster career development in this space for the broader CCAI community. The role of the Career Events lead would be to spin up and oversee this initiative.
Position-specific requirements:
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills
Optional but preferred skills:
- Prior experience in liaising with academic, corporate, and public sector organizations
- Prior experience organizing events such as job fairs or career workshops
- Interest in directly engaging with members of the CCAI community from various fields and sectors
- HR experience
Community leads (Entrepreneurship, agriculture, biodiversity, and more)
CCAI is recruiting volunteers to support CCAI outreach to different constituencies that CCAI aims to bridge. Community Leads are responsible for staying on top of the state-of-the art research and practice at the intersection of ML and domains of application, organizing events that foster networking among different communities, contributing to CCAI community platforms and blog posts, and engaging in proactive outreach to broaden our impact. This position is ideally combined with another role in CCAI, please indicate which other role you are interested in filling.
We are looking for individuals with experience of ML and one (or more) of the following topics:
- Climate equity and justice
- Entrepreneurship
- Agriculture
- Oceans and cryosphere
- Engineering disciplines, including related to heavy engineering, fuels, or carbon capture
- Accelerated science
- Biodiversity
- Power systems
- Buildings
- Transportation
Position-specific requirements:
- Professional network within given domain
- Experience with building connections and fostering networks across different fields or areas of expertise
- Experience in organizing events within their domain of expertise
Course curriculum
CCAI is seeking a volunteer to support the creation of a university-level course curriculum covering topics relevant to doing work in climate change and machine learning. This is an opportunity to distill the key ideas of climate change and AI for dissemination to the wider community. This role will entail designing the curriculum outline and structure; managing the creation of lectures and instructional materials; scheduling and overseeing test runs and subsequent revisions of various aspects of the curriculum; and ensuring the quality and cohesion of the final curriculum.
Position-specific requirements:
- Strong grasp of concepts in climate change and/or machine learning, in terms of both methods and broader themes
- Strong organizational skills
Optional but preferred skills:
- Prior background in creating tutorials or educational materials
- University teaching experience
- Familiarity with video/audio recording and editing tools (e.g. Lightworks, OpenShot, Adobe Premier, etc.)
Newsletter
CCAI is recruiting a volunteer to support our newsletter. The CCAI newsletter is one of our most popular community resources, with over 8000 subscribers. CCAI works to cultivate an open, interdisciplinary, and active community around climate change and machine learning. Our newsletter reflects these efforts by providing a monthly digest of jobs, readings, news and other interesting items to our readers. We are looking for a volunteer to help us maintain, improve and expand our newsletter.
Position-specific requirements:
- Experience with different communities at the intersection of climate change and machine learning
- Experience writing and / or supporting newsletters, blogs or other community-oriented resources
Optional but preferred skills:
- Familiarity with Mailchimp, Substack or other newsletter tools
- Experience with community building
- Experience with science communication
Publishing and peer review
CCAI is recruiting a Publishing and Peer Review lead to head CCAI’s efforts related to peer review and publications, in order to encourage high-quality academic research at the intersection of climate change and AI. Specific activities include developing high-impact publication venues for intersectional work, e.g. special issues in academic journals, as well as ensuring a high standard of review is applied to submissions to CCAI’s workshops and grants programs.
Position-specific requirements:
- Experience with academic publishing, ideally at the intersection of climate change and AI topics
- Experience with academic reviewing, ideally at the intersection of climate change and AI topics
- Strong grasp of concepts in climate change and/or machine learning, in terms of both methods and broader themes
- Strong organizational skills
Optional but preferred skills:
- Familiarity with editorial processes and/or organization of workshop/conferences
Support for community-organized events
CCAI is seeking a core team member to support the broader CCAI community in organizing and supporting programs and events, such as (virtual) happy hours, reading groups, and research gatherings. This role will entail creating guides or curating resources about organizing various types of events, as well as finding speakers and providing advice and modest logistical support to community members who are organizing events.
Position-specific requirements:
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Experience organizing physical or online events
- Enthusiasm for mentoring and supporting others
Optional but preferred skills:
- Experience organizing and running online or physical events
- Professional network in areas related to climate change and machine learning
- Interest in directly engaging with members of the CCAI community from various fields and sectors
Tutorials
CCAI is recruiting a volunteer to support the creation of hands-on tutorials or case studies on topics in climate change and machine learning, geared towards individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds. This role will entail curating a set of tutorial topics covering representative themes and methods, managing the creation of these tutorials, and working with tutorial writers to ensure quality and consistency.
Position-specific requirements:
- Strong grasp of concepts in climate change and/or machine learning, in terms of both methods and broader themes
- Research or project experience related to climate change and machine learning
- Strong organizational skills
- Familiarity with Jupyter notebooks or similar technologies
Optional but preferred skills:
- Prior background in creating tutorials or educational materials
- Familiarity with screen capturing and editing tools (Camtasia, Screencastify, etc.)
Webinars and virtual information sessions
CCAI is looking for new core team members to organize webinars, AMAs, and similar events. Team members in this role will be expected to curate content, manage event logistics, interact with potential speakers, and moderate sessions.
Position-specific requirements:
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Interest in directly engaging with members of the CCAI community from various fields and sectors
Optional but preferred skills:
- Experience organizing and running online events
- Experience moderating events
- Professional network in areas related to climate change and machine learning
- Proven track record of community management and engagement
Wiki
CCAI is running a Wiki to encourage the sharing of resources such as readings, datasets, publication venues, and descriptions of interesting challenges in climate change and machine learning. This is an opportunity to share knowledge across communities in a way that supports meaningful work in climate change. We are looking for volunteers to support the creation, maintenance and moderation of our Wiki.
Position-specific requirements:
- Strong interest in digital community-building and content moderation
Optional but preferred skills:
- Familiarity with MediaWiki or other Wiki platforms
- Experience with science communication