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Jessica Barker

Senior-career (10+ years)

INTEREST AREAS

Climate change mitigation, Farmed animal welfare, Global health & development, Global mental health & well-being, Wild animal welfare

Full-time

TYPE OF ROLE

ARE YOU OPEN TO REMOTE WORKING?

Yes

CURRENTLY BASED IN

United States

OTHER INTEREST AREAS

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TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOU...

I'm a behavioral scientist with 10 years’ post-PhD experience designing and testing interventions related to environmental sustainability and public health. I've worked in a top behavioral science consultancy (the Behavioural Insights Team), the public sector (I was Data Lead for the Alaska state government's COVID vaccine task force) and private sector (I'm currently Senior Behavioral Scientist at a health tech startup).

WHAT CONSIDERATIONS GUIDE YOU IN DECIDING HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEND YOUR CAREER? HOW DO YOU PRIORITIZE OR WEIGH THESE?

A high priority is finding a role where I can have high social impact (and I loosely subscribe to 80,000 Hours’ definition). Since I am mid-career, a big consideration is how I can use the skills I have gained so far in the most impactful way I can.
I have learned from experience that I have a threshold for work-life balance below which my mental health suffers, so this places a boundary on any impact-driven career decisions.

WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IDEAL ROLES FOR YOU, WHAT ARE SOME

KEY CHARACTERISTICS?

A role related to behavior change, which is critical in so many different cause areas: two I have worked on previously are encouraging plant-based food consumption and vaccine uptake. More broadly, an ideal role would involve research - especially experiments (including testing behavioral interventions) but also other elements such as surveys, secondary research - in an applied (non-academic) setting, i.e. to directly influence policies, programs, products.

IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE RECRUITERS LOOKING AT YOUR PROFILE TO KNOW?

I am currently based in the US but medium term am looking to relocate to Europe (and have US/UK dual citizenship).

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ANY QUESTIONS?

THANKS FOR REACHING OUT!

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