Energy Efficiency & Clean Energy Solutions Advocate-San Francisco, CA

Organization: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Position Title: Energy and efficiency and clean energy solutions advocate

Location: San Francisco, CA

Hours & Compensation: Full time

Application Deadline: February 5, 2014

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is the nation’s most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science and the support of 1.3 million members and online activists to protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our staff helped write some of America’s bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, and many of the implementing regulations; our water enforcement cases played a major role shaping current water policy throughout the country. Today, our staff of more than 430 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy and communications experts, and others, work out of offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Livingston, Montana and Beijing.

Position Summary:

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is soliciting applications for an immediate opening in San Francisco for a full-time Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Solutions Advocate with strong advocacy skills to promote energy efficiency and clean energy solutions that cost-effectively reduce environmental impacts and combat global warming. Applications are requested no later than February 5, 2014.

Responsibilities:

The Energy efficiency and Clean Energy Solutions Advocate will promote energy efficiency and clean energy solutions and policies that cost-effectively reduce environmental impacts and combat global warming in the legislative, regulatory, and business arenas. The Advocate will work with key stakeholders including environmental, environmental justice, business, and consumer and low-income advocate stakeholders, and will represent NRDC in regulatory and legislative processes.

One of NRDC’s top institutional priorities is rapidly reducing global warming pollution from the built environment, and energy efficiency and clean energy generation are critical tools to achieve this goal. Energy utilities play an essential role in shaping both our energy infrastructure and many consumer choices about energy-using appliances and equipment, as well as usage patterns. Better regulation has the potential to turn utilities into active allies in promoting specific efficiency programs and broader efficiency policies.

The successful candidate will focus primarily on advocacy at the state level (CA and the West) for better utility regulation to promote energy efficiency programs by building the case for the energy, environmental, and economic benefits that cost-effective energy efficiency can provide in the legislative, regulatory, and business arenas. The Advocate will also play a key role in NRDC’s advocacy for effective implementation of California’s law limiting the state’s global warming pollution (AB 32).

Responsibilities will include research, analysis, and advocacy with a focus in the following areas:

• Utility energy efficiency policies, investment and program development;
• Electric and gas utility incentive regulation;
• Integrated resource planning and portfolio management;
• Energy efficiency in the buildings sector;
• Renewable energy policy development;
• Other clean energy policies to address global warming in the energy sector.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have the personal and professional skills to advance NRDC’s objectives, including:

• Minimum two years experience and a graduate level degree in a related discipline such as energy, law, public policy, finance, economics, science, or engineering;
• Persuasive written and oral advocacy skills, especially communicating technical and analytical information in a clear and persuasive manner;
• Strong technical research, analytical and quantitative skills;
• Demonstrated ability to build coalitions much broader than the traditional environmental community; and
• Familiarity with public policy, particularly utility regulation, energy efficiency programs and technologies, and energy and climate change policy.

NRDC is committed to workplace diversity and inclusion. We are equal opportunity employers and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a pleasant working environment. Salary is based on a nonprofit scale and commensurate with experience.

To apply:

please visit www.nrdc.org/jobs and upload your resume, cover letter with salary requirements and a writing sample; please then click on Add Documents in the Member Profile menu that will appear after you create your profile to add the writing sample. No phone calls or faxes please. Please reference where you saw this posting. NRDC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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For further information about NRDC, please visit www.nrdc.org