Advisor, Labor

Key Responsibilities

• Advice on labor and community benefits opportunities:
  • Work with green bank partner to identify opportunities to strengthen the evaluation of labor, workforce, and community benefits practices in existing investment diligence procedures.
  • Support green bank partner in connecting existing workforce development programs to projects already in the pipeline.
  • Draft resources for measuring projects’ job quality, workforce development, and community benefits performance to supplement existing practices.
• Organize labor and community stakeholder convenings:
  • Lead the planning and execution of two convenings with labor and community stakeholders, developers, contractors, and/or green bank partner to help develop job quality, workforce development, and community benefits parameters that align with financing requirements for clean infrastructure projects.
  • This involves building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with labor and community stakeholders.
  • Identify and advance pipeline of projects that meet parameters:
  • Work with green bank partner and stakeholders to identify projects that meet job quality, workforce development, and community benefits parameters and financing requirements.
  • This may involve engaging with developers and contractors, as well as green bank partner and/or CGC to submit and advance projects for financing consideration and to match projects with labor and community partners.
• Manage pilot strategy and execution:
  • Define the milestones for achieving the goals of the labor pilot in a specific state and implement day-to-day activities.
  • This may involve building a roadmap of key activities and target deadlines, tracking and reporting on budget and expenses, tracking and reporting on progress towards achieving milestones, elevating and resolving issues, and collecting and evaluating pilot performance data.

Qualifications

• Education & Experience Required:
  • Master's degree and 6+ years of experience, or an equivalent combination of education and directly related experience.
  • Experience in planning and executing events.
  • Experience building coalitions with broad participation.
  • Experience working with labor and/or community organizations.
  • Understanding of labor, workforce development, and community benefits strategies.
  • Experience leading project management.
  • Ability to work independently and adhere to deadlines.
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Experience organizing labor and community coalitions for clean infrastructure policies and/or projects.
  • Experience working with clean energy developers and contractors.
  • Understanding of labor, workforce development, and community benefits strategies and/or policies in the clean infrastructure sector.
  • Familiarity with financing models in clean infrastructure sector.