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Position Summary:

We are seeking a 1-year, data center-focused legal fellow at our Pittsburgh remote office.  At Fair Shake, legal fellows receive training on the practice of public interest environmental law while acting as staff attorneys and handling a full docket of cases or other matters that advance a specific project relevant to Fair Shake’s environmental justice mission.  As such, in support of the specific fellowship project – in this instance providing legal counsel and representation to communities fighting hyperscale data center proposals – the Data Center Legal Fellow would research legal questions; counsel clients and community organizations; attend and participate in community meetings; provide community legal education; conduct factual investigations; litigate civil and administrative matters; negotiate settlements; draft and file permit and rule comments; and generally help to communities to oppose and/or mitigate the harms from hyperscale data center proposals as part of a full-service environmental law practice.  Anticipated case matters can include, among other things, Right To Know Law appeals; municipal Sunshine Act compliance litigation; construction stormwater and NPDES permit commenting; land use and zoning hearings; air quality permit commenting; municipal policy development; and nonprofit formation and counseling.

Desired Skills and Qualities:

• Training and experience in environmental and administrative legal issues.
• Training and experience in client interviewing and counseling, administrative and civil procedure, trial advocacy, and settlement negotiation.
• Experience and training in legal drafting, research, and effective communication.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in both collaborative and independent work product and performance.
• Comfort with facilitating community meetings. 
• The ability to explain legal concepts in accessible and understandable ways to the general public.
• A commitment to Fair Shake’s environmental justice mission, client-centered counseling approach, and community lawyering.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Juris Doctor degree or the equivalent.
• A minimum of 1-3 years of environmental or related legal practice experience (experience in a clinical program or working as a clerk or intern in a law office during law school may count as 1 year of experience in a legal practice).
• Current Pennsylvania or Ohio Bar admittance.

Location:

Fair Shake is an organization whose staff works remotely from their homes with shared office spaces in Beechwood, OH; Cincinnati, OH; Pittsburgh, PA; and Charleston, WV, and other locations as needed.  Organizational meetings are primarily conducted by video conference.  However, the Data Center Legal Fellow must be willing to travel across Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia as necessary to address client needs and the organization’s mission (estimated to occur approximately 1-2 per month).  Travel costs will be reimbursed.  Also, an initial and annual home office stipend will be provided to enable remote work, and a computer and external monitor will be supplied. 

Compensation & Benefits:

Fair Shake is offering an annual salary range of $72,000 – $80,000, based on a 32-hour average work week, commensurate with skills and experience.  In addition to salary, Fair Shake offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes 20 days paid vacation; 10 days sick time; 12 weeks paid parental leave; work-related travel cost reimbursement; professional membership and conference allowance; monthly contribution-free, employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance; employer-paid long- and short-term disability insurance; employer-paid life insurance; and, after the vesting period, a retirement savings plan. 

To Apply:

Please submit a letter of interest, your CV or résumé, and a writing sample to:

Michael A. Parker, Esq.

Executive Director

Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services

6425 Living Place, Suite 200

Pittsburgh, PA 15206

[email protected]

Position Summary

The Community Democracy Coordinator will support environmental justice by taking the lead in building authentic, reciprocal, and engaged relationships with individuals and communities throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.  This individual will then foster collaboration and facilitate interactive education and skills training, create resources, provide technical assistance, and build capacity for communities engaged in the fight against data centers and the data center infrastructure build-out, as well as advocate for future community-driven goals in the region.

Job Tasks:

• Build strength-based, reciprocal relationships with diverse individuals and community partners in-person and virtually and then lead those relationships in meaningful collaborations.
• Foster collaboration and community-building to bring communities together, learn, share, and provide mutual support and education within and between towns and states.
• Lead and facilitate 1:1, small, and large-group community education, in-person and virtually, with community members, community leaders, and other partners about environmental justice topics, including community organizing (for example – power mapping, communications, community engagement), community lawyering (for example – public commenting, municipal policy, local decision-making processes, and state permits). 
• Collaborate closely with Fair Shake Staff Attorney and Community Democracy team to ‘translate’ complex legal and policy language into creative resources and community education.
• Coordinate activities including planning events, locations, logistics, coalition partners, and community education content.
• Analyze and maintain qualitative and quantitative data collected through community events and conversation that describes community strengths, needs, vision, as well as outputs such as community contacts, outreach and education outcomes and attendance.

Qualifications & Strengths

• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to listen for understanding.
• Ability to translate complex information into accessible communications and content.
• Experience facilitating small and large groups both in-person and virtually.
• Creative thinking and proactive problem-solving skills, with a strong interest in ideas and comfort with complexity.
• Knowleddge of the Ohio River Valley, Appalachia, and an appreciation for each communities’ unique culture, strengths, and challenges.
• A commitment to:
  • promoting fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies;
  • empowering communities and stimulating economies in the Appalachian Basin region by providing environmental legal services and counseling to allow the underserved to make decisions about practical and innovative solutions to complex environmental challenges across the region.

Requirements:

• At least three years’ experience in a diverse background, such as community engagement, , health education, organizing, social work, racial and economic justice work, public policy, law, and/or Bachelor’s degree in related field.
• Applicant must have reliable transportation and proof of insurance to travel across the three-state (WV, OH, and PA) area for community-based work.
• Ability to work during occasional evenings or weekends, with flexibility to ensure an average work week of 32 hours.

Location

Fair Shake is an organization that works remotely from our homes, with staff located in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia.  This position will require travel throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and parts of West Virginia (estimated about twice/month of in-person presence).  Priority will be given to individuals who live in Ohio or Western Pennsylvania.

Compensation & Benefits

Fair Shake offers an annual salary range of $47,000-55,000 commensurate with skills and experience as well as a comprehensive benefits package that includes 20 days paid vacation; 10 days paid sick leave; travel cost reimbursement; fully employer-paid premiums on medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; paid parental leave; and a retirement savings plan (after an eligibility period). 

Funding Note: This position is grant-funded, with guaranteed funding for a one-year period.  Fair Shake commits to seeking funding to continue this important role and work past the one-year period.

To Apply

We will be considering applications on a rolling basis as they come in, with a deadline date of 11/20/26.  To apply, please submit via e-mail a letter of interest explaining why this role excites you, along with a copy of your résumé to: 

Meagan Niebler, Director of Community Democracy

[email protected]  

Title: Database Specialist
Supervisor: Chief of Staff
Office Location: Warrenton, Virginia
Job Classification: Full-time, Non-Exempt

About PEC

The Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) conserves and restores the lands and waters of the Virginia Piedmont, while building stronger, more sustainable communities. Founded in 1972, PEC is a locally based, community-supported 501(c)(3) nonprofit and accredited land trust. At the core of PEC’s approach is a focus on educating, engaging and empowering people to effect positive change in their communities.

Your Role

The Database Specialist is responsible for managing, configuring and maintaining PEC’s central database, primarily built on the Salesforce platform, along with various integrated systems and secondary applications. This role ensures seamless data integrity, automated business process flows, comprehensive event, donor and volunteer tracking, monthly financial reconciliations, and robust reporting for organizational leadership.

The Database Specialist will work closely with PEC’s management team and the rest of the staff to understand organizational needs, resolve system issues, maintain data integrity, improve workflows, and ensure that staff are able to use Salesforce effectively.

Key Responsibilities

The Database Specialist will report to the Chief of Staff and be responsible for the essential functions within our database environments, including:

• User Management – Configuration of accounts, permission sets, profiles and roles.
• Security and Access – Set up and control data visibility across departments and system-wide security settings.
• System Customization – Build custom fields, objects and standalone applications. Build and maintain custom page layouts, record types, picklist value sets and validations rules.
• Process Automation – Design and maintain automated business flows.
• Reporting and Analytics – Create and manage both custom and standard reports, along with custom dashboards.
• Data Integrity – Oversee data cleaning operations by managing day-to-day quality, running database health reports and managing backups.
• Support and Training – Troubleshoot daily user issues and system errors, train staff on system functionality and best practices, write and maintain staff training documentation.

Geographic Focus

Based at our Warrenton, Virginia headquarters, this role operates on a hybrid schedule, requiring a minimum of two on-site days per week to support in-house staff and up to three remote days. Core operational hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, with flexibility as needed to assist staff and board members with database-related inquiries.

Required Qualifications

• Strong work ethic and commitment to PEC’s core values, mission and vision.
• Minimum five years of experience working with Salesforce.
• Attention to detail with a thorough and meticulous approach for accuracy.
• Proactive in driving independent solutions with a strong focus on research skills and creative problem solving.
• Strong interpersonal skills and collaborative abilities, including the ability to work with people of diverse backgrounds and work styles.
• Ability to work effectively under multiple deadlines.
• Strong understanding of Salesforce user management, permissions, profiles, roles, reports, dashboards and basic configuration.
• Understand Salesforce integrations with other applications (e.g., our email marketing tool, EveryAction) and the ability to execute when necessary.
• The ability to develop and build interactive dashboards.
• Experience with data cleanup, deduplication and data quality management.
• Ability to work independently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at a nonprofit or donor-based organization.
• Experience with other applications such as EveryAction (Bonterra), Zapier and Google.
• Experience with other applications and how they integrate with Salesforce.  
• Salesforce Administrator Certification.
• Experience with Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), or other nonprofit Salesforce environments.
• Experience with grant management and reporting.
• Experience developing Salesforce training materials and standard operating procedures.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

This position will be completed in an office environment. Office work requires extended sitting or standing and the use of a computer, keyboard and mouse. Due to the public-facing nature of PEC’s mission and community events, employees may occasionally be photographed, filmed or quoted for use (with permission) in organization publications, promotional materials, social media and website content.

Compensation

This position is a full-time, non-exempt / hourly position with benefits. Salary of $31.25 to $43.26 hourly rate, commensurate with experience, or $65,000 to $90,000 annually.

Benefits

PEC offers an outstanding and robust benefits package to full-time employees including:

• Two health plans (83% employer paid premium for employee only plan, 80% employer paid for added dependents)
• Short- & Long-Term Disability*
• Group Term Life*
• Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Indemnity insurances*
• HSA account (with employer match up to $750 per year)
• FSA accounts (health & dependent care)
• 403(b) pension plan with employer contribution after 1 year of service with 100% vesting from day one
• 10 paid holidays
• 2 floating holidays
• PTO leave – 24 days per year, accrued each pay period
• 1 day per year of paid leave to volunteer at another non-profit or charitable cause
• Salary continuation leave for employee or family illness – from 2 to 8 weeks fully paid leave eligibility every 24 months, depending on length of service
• Paid bereavement, jury duty and military service training leave
• Travel expense reimbursement
• Hybrid work environment and flexible work schedules
• Cell Phone Reimbursement, up to $75 per month
• Professional development support
• Payment for relevant licenses & professional membership fees.

*Indicates that this insurance premium is 100% paid by PEC for employee’s coverage.

Application Process

Interested applicants should fill out our job application form. Candidates must submit a cover letter and resumé as a PDF. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Application Deadline: November 16, 2026. The position will remain open until it is filled.

Desired start date: January 4, 2027.

If your qualifications and experience are a good fit, PEC will reach out to you within two weeks of receiving your application or two weeks after the application deadline closes, whichever is later. The following is what you can expect as part of our hiring process:

1. First Round of Interviews (Panel / Hiring Manager, Virtual)
2. Final Interview with Hiring Manager and President (Virtual / In-Person)
3. Reference Check
4. Offer Letter and Background Check

The Piedmont Environmental Council recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, genetic information, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job, and therefore our job descriptions are guidelines. Your experience, which may include paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work, helps build the competencies and knowledge. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and a culture of excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), reasonable accommodations during the application or interview process may be requested. If you have any questions or concerns, please email [email protected].

If selected for this position, a background check will be conducted.

Keystone Research Center (KRC) is an independent, nonpartisan, research and policy organization, the mission of which is to promote more broadly shared prosperity. KRC seeks an industrial decarbonization research and policy specialist who can lead KRC’s responsibilities as a subawardee on a significant Commonwealth of Pennsylvania grant program. This specialist will work in collaboration with KRC’s Executive Director, who is also the principal investigator on KRC’s subaward. The successful candidate will be employed by KRC at least 75% time through September 2029 with the possibility of a one-year extension. The salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience and must also be compatible with the budget of KRC’s subaward and KRC’s salary scale.

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume to [email protected] with the subject line “KRC Industrial Decarbonization Specialist Position.” Interviews will begin as soon as competitive candidates are identified. The position will remain open until it is filled. KRC is an equal opportunity employer.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide input on grant program implementation, especially related to community benefits
  and fair labor bonus awards, including: reviewing bonus award proposals submitted
  subsequent to the candidate’s hire; provide technical assistance to bonus award winners,
  including planning bonus award cohort training and peer learning (digitally and in person);
  providing technical assistance on labor and apprenticeship aspects of the program.
• (a) Assist with planning, outreach, convening, and relationship building to industrial
  companies, contractors, and the broader labor community related to industrial
  decarbonization technologies, (b) strengthen the PA industrial decarbonization community
  of practice, and (c) define and advance PA policies that accelerate and deepen the adoption
  and implementation of industrial decarbonization technologies.
• Assist with the development of a comprehensive evaluation model for the community
  benefit and fair labor awards on projects receiving program funding, and with information
  collection to implement model findings.
• Assist with program design for future grant reporting needs, including the planning of case
  studies for the final reporting deliverable that showcases for the funding agency and for
  national and state policymakers the successes, best practices, and other learnings from the
  program’s implementation strategy.
• Developing and supervising the implementation of a methodology that explores available
  data to document and evaluate the program’s statewide and national impact. This could
  include identifying sector-specific and technology-specific pathways to deepening industrial
  decarbonization in Pennsylvania as informed by the work of program grantees.
• Policy Development: Monitor, review, and draft legislative and regulatory proposals for
  Pennsylvania designed to sustain industrial decarbonization momentum beyond the initial
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  federally-funded grant program. Provide input, in cooperation with state and/or national
  partners and advisors, on federal and state legislative and regulatory proposals for industrial
  decarbonization, including examples in peer states nationally
• Other duties as assigned, and as aligned with the goals of maximizing the program’s
  positive impacts and increasing its influence on future policy in Pennsylvania, other states,
  and nationally.
  Qualifications & Skills
• Education: Bachelor’s or advanced degree in public policy, environmental engineering,
  economics, climate science, sustainability, ESG (environmental, social, and governance)
  principles or a related field.
• Experience: at least five years of experience in policy or technical positions related to
  climate, environmental, sustainability, and/or decarbonization issues.
• Communication: Proven ability to translate complex technical data into clear insights for
  public or legislative audiences.
• Specific knowledge of community benefit plans, state and national labor standards, the PA
  Department of Environmental Protection, and organized labor a plus.
• Knowledge of micro- and macroeconomic modeling software programs such as REMI or
  IMPLAN a plus.
• Technical knowledge: understanding of greenhouse gas accounting, industrial processes,
  and industrial decarbonization technologies a plus

West Virginia Public Broadcasting operates a statewide public radio and television network, as well as wvpublic.org, and is the home of Mountain Stage.

WVPB is operated by the Educational Broadcasting Commission of West Virginia (EBC), a state agency that offers competitive salaries and excellent benefits.

The EBC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages women and minorities to apply.

• Financial Accounting Manager
• Staff Accountant