Coordinator for Bird Safety

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Join Our Team as the Coordinator for Bird Safety at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology!

If you're eager to make an impact and be part of a dynamic team working to protect birds, then we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with us!

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University embraces diversity and seeks candidates who will contribute to a climate that supports students, faculty, and staff of all identities and backgrounds. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized identities to apply.

About The Department
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is dedicated to advancing the understanding and protection of the natural world and joins with people from all walks of life to make new scientific discoveries, share insights, and galvanize conservation action.

The Lab’s Center for Engagement in Science and Nature (CESN) activates and supports people worldwide to connect with birds and nature, participate in science, and promote the wellbeing of humans and natural systems. Recognizing that one of our significant strengths is the collective power of the people we engage, we work across disciplines to design opportunities that inspire people to contribute to science and become advocates for life on earth. Our model for change is to bring curiosity to scale through education and participatory science so that together we can gain insight into how natural systems work and address global conservation challenges.

The Lab is dedicated to addressing declining bird populations, including bird-window strikes that are estimated to kill up to a billion across the United States each year. We work collaboratively with a diverse network of partners to implement effective strategies that mitigate bird collisions with windows and promote awareness about the importance of bird conservation. We seek to combine the Lab’s unprecedented data resources on bird populations with a growing expertise in social science to effect change.

About the Opportunity
We are hiring a “Bird Safe” project coordinator to collaborate on the development, testing, and implementation of public engagement campaigns to reduce bird mortality caused by collisions with glass.


The Bird Safe coordinator will be part of the Lab’s Center for Engagement in Science and Nature and will work with an interdisciplinary team at the Lab and with external partners to develop initiatives that engage individuals and communities in taking action to reduce window collisions by making glass safer for birds and turning out nonessential lights during spring and fall migration. The coordinator will work with nonprofit, government, and business partners to understand partner needs and facilitate the consolidation, packaging, and delivery of messaging, best practices, and tools to help support and coordinate partner efforts. Leading email marketing campaigns, working with stakeholders and the Lead Marketing Manager to design campaign-level strategy, objectives, and tactics that meet specific goals of the campaign.

Basic functions and responsibilities include the following:
Project Management: Work with internal and external stakeholders to identify highest priority needs. Collaborate to set goals, align stakeholders on priorities, define scope, assign tasks, and manage production and delivery of campaign materials, coordinating individual and group activities to meet project deadlines. Track, summarize, and report on results to facilitate improvements in future iterations.
Outreach and Engagement: Collaborate with the Lab’s Bird Friendly core team and external partners to use social science research insights in the design and testing of messaging and calls to action for public audiences. Participate in the design and coordination of outreach campaigns that inspire and support people to make glass safer for birds and turn out nonessential lights during spring and fall migration.
Partnership Development and Coordination: Develop and maintain relationships with other programs and coordinators to expand collective efforts across states and cities. Facilitate information-sharing among partners and the consolidation and dissemination of best practices, resources, and training for working with key audiences such as city and state governments, building managers, local conservation and outreach organizations, media, businesses, and homeowners. Work with partners to coordinate campaign activities. Surface successes and challenges to continually improve processes and outcomes.

This position is a 2-year term position. This position may be extended with additional funding, work and successful performance. This position will be based in the Ithaca, New York, area; New York City; or Washington, DC, to enhance collaborations at the Lab of Ornithology and with regional partners. If remote, quarterly travel to the Lab will be required, as well as travel to partnership organizations in New York City and Washington, DC., at your own expense if not located in any of those locations.

What We Need

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent in biology, environmental science, communications, policy, education, social science, or other relevant fields and 2 to 4 years of experience in stakeholder engagement, network building, or project coordination or equivalent combination.
• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.
• Must have a record of successfully meeting schedules and milestones of projects involving multiple and diverse stages, participants, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated record of success in project leadership and management.
• Experience with formal and informal science education, and/or public outreach.
• Experience with social media platforms such as Twitter/X, Instagram.
• Mastery of standard office management (e.g. Word, Excel, Power Point, etc) and communication software (e.g. Slack) required.
• Experience managing digital communications.
• Knowledge of birds or a willingness to learn quickly.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor messages to various audiences.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a valid passport and driver’s license and be able to travel.
• Must be strongly motivated, able to think critically, and make a positive contribution to the Cornell Lab’s mission.
• Ability to manage competing demands and work effectively and collaboratively with diverse partners sharing different perspectives.
• Passionate about working in an organization that values and promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and wellbeing.

Preferably, the successful candidate will also have the following:

• Master’s degree or background in biology, environmental science, communications, policy, education, social science, or other relevant fields.
• Advanced knowledge and multiple years of experience managing complex or multi-stakeholder projects.
• Knowledge of birds’ life history, including behavior and migration.
• Experience with writing grant proposals and reports, and previous experience with the preparation of scientific manuscripts.
• Experience mentoring and advising volunteers and undergraduate students.
• Familiarity with policy development and advocacy related to environmental issues.

If you are passionate about conservation, we encourage you to apply!

Rewards and Benefits
Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives.

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• Our leave provisions include health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and an end of the year winter break from December 25-January 1.
• Cornell's impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program.

No Visa Sponsorship is available for this position.

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2024-08-28