The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture Student Programs and Events Associates: Fall 2025 and Spring 2026
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The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture seeks a team of?part-time student programs and events associates to support effective communications, dynamic and engaging events, and program development during the 2025-2026 academic year.
The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture’s mission is to advance fundamental and applied science relating to how we can enhance natural processes to create effective, safe, and scalable methods to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere while delivering meaningful ecological and social co-benefits. The Center supports research across disciplines and at multiple departments and schools at Yale. These include the Departments of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Chemistry in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Yale School of the Environment and School of Engineering & Applied Science.
The associates will work closely with Center staff on events such as The Fall Showcase Event, Welcome Reception, Fall and Spring Corporate Roundtable Meetings, Spring Symposium, and more. YCNCC programs include postdoctoral fellowships, workshops, outreach and engagement activities, visiting scholars, and research support programs.
The communication and events associate(s) will work collaboratively with other team members and support the Center’s goals for programs and events. This includes a commitment to meet weekly with the event planning team members and to be available in person for the days of the Welcome Reception and Fall Showcase Event.
Responsibilities:
Spring symposium planning:
- Assist with positive, responsive, and clear conference communication including coordinating with presenters and registered attendees
- Draft conference promotions and attendee information for websites, social media, posters, list-serves and mailing lists?
- Assist with organizing event support, including virtual participation
- Assist with conference follow up, including conference debrief, archiving, and reports
- Assist with logistical support for hybrid event planning including increasing accessibility, assisting with virtual platforms, coordinating with vendors and travel arrangements (if needed)
- Other tasks as needed
Programming activities
- Perform outreach activities and organize the logistics and communications of events to promote shared goals including event accessibility
- Coordinate with Center members and partners to support social media posts or other communication to promote events with their community members as needed
- Support the logistics and execution of the Center visioning
- Assist with developing new programs, such as the seminar series, workshop program and more
- Other tasks as needed
Communication
- Support the development of research briefs for corporate partners and other outreach activities geared towards corporate audiences
- Website development including event promotion and archiving, supporting Center staff in additional website roll out phases?
- Manage newsletter including curating content and coordinating with contributors?
- Establish a meaningful social media presence to communicate Center mission and vision, highlight internal and external partners, promote events, and direct users to website-based resource?
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
· Interest in nature-based climate solutions and for connecting scientific findings with real world impacts ?
· Enthusiasm for event planning and hosting convenings?
· Excellent communication skills?
· Ability to work well as a member of a team?
· Experience with hosting virtual or hybrid events
· Experience with social media?for professional uses
· Excellent organization skills, attention to detail?
· Experience with Microsoft OneDrive, Yale Sites, Yale Connect, Yale Message, Zoom