Associate Director Environment Law Program

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Associate Director, Environment Law Program
Provide research to support strategic planning processes, participate as an active member in program planning meetings, retreats. Manage two graduate fellows, including taking the lead on the application, selection and onboarding process for the positions, and overseeing the fellow’s work. Assist with the student research program, including hiring law student research assistants, guiding their work. Attend and promote the program at admissions fairs, admitted student days, events. Promote the program, its specialized degrees through writing, designing print, email and web advertising, working with a professional graphic designer for print materials and directly creating e-newsletters using email software. Provide a continuous social media presence, and updating of program website. Create, edit the Annual Report of the program, e-newsletters, other marketing materials throughout the year geared towards a national and international audience. Provide curriculum, career counseling for JD and LLM students, and provide students updates on course, research, other educational opportunities. Attend and if necessary in the absence of the Program Manager take minutes of the law school’s monthly Environmental Committee and attend cross-institutional meetings as needed. Join the faculty in representing the program at the American Association of Law Schools, New York State Bar Association annual environmental meetings, other events. Plan, organize, manage environmental law conferences, events, CLEs. Along with the Program Manager, assist in logistics with the Brazil Comparative Environmental Law course, including working with travel agent to develop lowest-cost group travel packages, organizing student passport and visa applications, investigating potential field day sites and creating agendas with professor. Participate in the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition by overseeing research relative to the competition problem, bench memorandum, supervising the writing of the bench memorandum, managing the student board in conjunction with the Program Manager, supervising faculty member, and judging the preliminary rounds of the competition. Manage the application, selection process for various environmental courses/programs, including the DC Environmental Law Externship Prog.. Maintain the environmental law alumni database, and advise alumni of program news, events. Although not specifically required for this position, may teach as an adjunct professor in the environmental law curriculum. Work with finance to develop, manage the annual program budget. Assist with fundraising, external grant applications. Co-manage Secretariat of the Academy of Environmental Law with the UniversitySchool of Law, including: working closely with the governing board to manage membership, committee functions, communications; coordinating with host institutions to plan, facilitate annual colloquia; serving as editor on colloquia proceedings as needed. Develop, promote partnerships with other law schools and research institutions.

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