The phrase "to take this position" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means to accept or assume a specific role or responsibility. Example: After much consideration, I have decided to take this position as the director of marketing at XYZ Company.
Now how well are we equipped to take this position?
Is it ethical for him to take this position?
"Society has pushed politicians to take this position [to overturn the abortion ban]," she said.
In fact, he is both right and wrong to take this position.
To take this position, Mr. Jenrette had to turn down an appealing alternative.
"My values and beliefs have driven me to step forward to take this position as prime minister," she said.
Prior to taking this position, I was leading a global research program on genetics of adaptation and abiotic stress tolerance, at the International Potato Center (CIP), Lima, Peru.
Prior to taking this position, Mr. Reinsch spent twenty years on Capitol Hill from 1973 to 1993, most of them as senior Legislative Assistant to the late Senator John Heinz and subsequently to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV.
Leiter comes close to taking this position: "The No Exemptions approach to claims of conscience (or at least to claims of conscience that are burden-shifting), religious or otherwise, is the one most consistent with fairness" (130).
Crick says Shaw is the only known socialist thinker since French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf to take this impossibilist position but, perhaps generously, sees Shaw's position as a device to flush out and challenge stock objections to equality.
A second platoon dispatched to take this new position ran into a third, and attempts to deal with this met with fire from a fourth position.
