Industry Program, Senior Research Associate

About the role

Join our team at ACEEE, advancing practical, cost-effective solutions to use energy more efficiently. Since 1980, we've shaped landmark policies, catalyzed clean technologies, and made energy efficiency the nation's most productive energy resource.

Responsibilities

• Leads, publishes, communicates, and contributes to research and analysis on industrial heat efficiency and electrification.
• Develops thought leadership on industrial market transformation.
• Works with the team to identify, monitor, and describe technology advances and policy windows to advance the market at the corporate, state, and federal levels.
• Engages in outreach to states for industrial programs and rulemaking efforts.
• Promotes, coordinates, and contributes to convenings and collaborations of utilities, industrial companies, NGOs, and other partners to help advance energy efficiency and carbon reductions.
• Develops and follows project workplans and meets milestones within budgeted hours.
• Interacts with funders and develops new funding sources. Contributes to proposal development.

Requirements

• Strong interest in industrial decarbonization and/or industrial policy.
• Bachelor’s degree with at least 7 years of work experience, or Master’s degree with at least 5 years of experience.
• Significant interest or experience in talking in detail with industrial managers, engineers, and vendors about technologies.
• Significant interest or experience in engaging with federal or state agencies and/or policymakers.
• Strong writing skills and the ability to translate technical concepts into language that engages policymakers.
• Track record of performance and reliability.
• Authorship of multiple peer-reviewed reports, including at least one as lead author.

Preferred

• Experience with, or sound knowledge of, electrification strategies, energy efficiency, and/or emissions reductions in the industrial sector.
• Onsite experience with industrial plants, although this is not necessary.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage.
• A 403(b) retirement plan.
• Transportation and bike share benefits (if located in the DC-Maryland-Virginia area).
• 3 weeks of vacation in the first year and 4 weeks thereafter, 11 federal holidays and office-wide closure for the week between Christmas to New Year’s.
• This is a full-time, exempt position.

Application

To apply: Send cover letter, resume, and brief (1-2 pages) writing sample to the link below to apply through the Paylocity Recruitment portal. Please explain in your cover letter how your writing sample relates to the position. We do not accept phone calls or emails about the position.

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ACEEE is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination with regard to race, sex, color, age, religion, creed, class, sexual orientation, national origin, and disability. ACEEE is committed to increasing diversity and inclusion in its organization and encourages applicants with diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds to apply.