COLLEGE AIDE - Budget

Job Description

TASK FORCE: Environmental Sustainability and Resiliency

UNIT: Budget

JOB TITLE: One (1) Undergraduate/Graduate College Aide

CONTROL CODE: ESR-27-02

SUMMARY

The Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the City government's chief financial agency. OMB's staff of analysts and experts assembles and oversees the Mayor’s expense and capital budgets, which fund the services and activities of approximately 90 City agencies and entities.

The OMB Environmental Sustainability and Resiliency (ESR) task force helps fulfilling this mission by integrating climate change mitigation and resiliency into the city's financial planning to address current and future climate risks. The ESR Task Force analyzes and tracks citywide sustainability and resiliency funding and supports agencies and other OMB units in the formulation, design, and evaluation of policies and investments. Within ESR, the Budget Unit assesses the alignment of the City’s investments with its climate goals and helps oversee the budget for the Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice.

The intern will assist ESR’s Budget Unit by becoming familiar with the New York City budget process in order to build capacity for budgetary review to identify potential opportunities for investment and to make recommendations on how to continue to incorporate sustainability, resiliency, and environmental justice work in NYC’s Climate Budgeting process.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The undergraduate/graduate intern will contribute to assessing the climate impacts of the City’s capital and expense budgets used to inform the fourth annual NYC Climate Budgeting publication, to be published in May 2027. The intern will also assist in preparing for the publication in capacities including, but not limited to: data cleaning, copy editing, and designing the publication. The undergraduate/graduate intern will learn about the City's budget process and expand the OMB ESR task force’s ability to evaluate budget