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Data Visualization Designer/Developer | Climate Science Writer
Data Visualization Designer/Developer
Job Description
Climate Central is looking for a rising star, a standout with superior design and data visualization skills to help us create digital graphics on climate change, weather, and energy issues across all platforms. You’ll work closely with our team of scientists, data analysts, researchers and news reporters. Strong graphic design, programming and data administration are all elements of this position.
Responsibilities
- Create/design/illustrate digital graphics and interactives in new and informative ways, converting and conveying data on climate science, energy, and sea level rise.
- Create/design/build user interfaces for Climate Central’s growing online properties, including microsites, applications, landing pages and graphics.
- Create reusable Web-based tools.
- Create wireframes and prototypes consistent with user interface specifications.
- Develop templates and themes using HTML/CSS/Javascript for a variety of browsers, screen resolutions and devices.
- Research emerging technologies and applications and the opportunities to integrate them into operations.
- Maintain existing site sections and content.
- Build and refine existing graphics. Must have extremely strong skills in Photoshop, Fireworks, or equivalent application(s)
- Assist with testing and quality assurance.
- Contribute ideas and other help as needed on a small, close editorial team.
- Convert raw images and layouts from a graphic designer into CSS/XHTML themes.
- Determine appropriate architecture, and other technical solutions, and make relevant recommendations.
Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience designing graphics and interactives for digital media platforms, including working with Flash and HTML5.
- BA in Graphic Design, Computer Science or a related field, or significant equivalent experience.
- Strong design and UI skills and portfolio with demonstrable proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
- Demonstrable experience with HTML/XHTML and CSS as well as Web programming experience, including PHP, ASP or JSP.
- Knowledge of database systems such as MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle or SQL a plus.
- Self-starter with strong self-management skills and ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
- Thorough knowledge of online production environments and challenges.
- Familiarity with content management systems.
- Flexibility to take on new roles as the evolution of the Internet leads us in unanticipated directions.
- Commitment to communicating climate change is not required, but it will make the work more interesting.
About Climate Central
Climate Central is a growing, non-profit organization with an entrepreneurial atmosphere. We are an independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public. Climate Central is not an advocacy organization and does not lobby or support any specific legislation, policy or bill.
Location
This position will be located in our Princeton, N.J., office.
Compensation
Compensation is competitive, with very generous benefits.
Apply
Please send your cover letter, resume, and salary expectations to iweinberg@climatecentral.org. Due to the volume of employment applications and queries received, Climate Central is unable to respond to each application individually. Applicants will be contacted directly if selected as a candidate.
Search will close when successful candidate is recruited to fill this position.
Climate Science Writer
Job Description
A talented, hard-working, experienced science reporter to cover climate science, climate impacts and energy research.
Responsibilities
- Breaking news on a daily basis for Climate Central’s website.
- Developing feature stories on topics relevant to Climate Central’s growing audience.
- Working with Climate Central’s staff researchers, senior science writers, news editors and climate scientists to prepare original research reports.
- Posting work and content on social media platforms.
Qualifications
- Experience covering climate science, weather, or energy issues, and/or an academic background in these issues is a must.
- Demonstrable record of covering science topics. The ideal candidate would have 3-to-5 years of experience working as a reporter for an online news organization. Self-starter with strong self-management skills and ability to organize and manage multiple projects and storylines.
- Credibility is our currency. Accuracy is paramount.
- Comfortable working in a deadline environment.
- Familiarity with content management systems.
About Climate Central
Climate Central is a growing organization with an entrepreneurial atmosphere. We write daily on climate news as well as extreme weather events and trends, and our stories and analyses are published on our website and by our media partners. We have built a media and research brand while covering one of the most important public policy issues of our time. We are a non-advocacy organization dedicated to informing the public about the facts of climate change and not the political bluster. In the past year alone, we have had our research on sea level rise spotlighted in a Senate hearing and featured on A1 of the New York Times, published our first book, and seen our web traffic grow tenfold.
Location
This position will be located in our New York office.
Compensation
Compensation is competitive, with very generous benefits.
Apply
Please send your cover letter, resume, links to your work, and salary expectations to iweinberg@climatecentral.org. Due to the volume of employment applications and queries received, Climate Central is unable to respond to each application individually. Applicants will be contacted directly if selected as a candidate.
Search will close when successful candidate is recruited to fill this position.
