[FILLED] Electrification via Green@Home and E-Mobility
Host: Acterra: Action for a Healthy Planet
Region: Bay Area
Openings: 1
Project Focus: Climate Adaptation, Climate Mitigation, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Transportation / Mobility
Skills Needed: Community Engagement, Project Management, Community Outreach, Environmental Justice, Critical Thinking, Flexibility / Adaptability
Service Needs & Plans
Acterra’s Green@Home and E-Mobility programs offer educational events that help individuals take action to reduce their energy use, from educating homeowners about the cost-savings benefits of a heat pump water heater to helping people access rebates and incentives which bring down the cost of purchasing an electric vehicle. Hundreds of people across the Bay Area have already reduced their carbon emissions and energy costs through our programs.
Project Description
The Electrification Fellow will work with Acterra’s Beneficial Electrification and E-Mobility to educate the public about building and transport electrification and support our audience in accessing electrification services. They will help organize and host virtual and in-person events, work with communications and media staff to promote programming and educate Acterra’s audience, provide administrative support, and help design and implement new programs.
This position will:
– Manage, market, and support relationships for the benefit of our Green@Home, E-Mobility, and Induction Cooktop Loaner Programs
– Manage BE related events, both as a partner to other orgs and for our own proprietary events, like Palo Alto Electrification Expo, Earth Day, or BE Workshops
– Message the benefits of electrification to the wider community in partnership with our Communications Manager and program staff.
– Take creative lead and leverage new opportunities to share the benefits of electrification.
– Participate as a partner and member of organizations doing BE work throughout the Bay Area.
Desired Skills
– Strong drive to contribute to a better world and proven ambition to make the world sustainable
– Ability to realize new initiatives with multiple partners at the intersection of private and public sectors
– Proactive, autonomous, diligent, result-driven and “can do” personality
– Strong interpersonal, persuasive, and communication skills
Organization & Community Highlights
Our programs — across beneficial electrification, climate-friendly food, and education — build collective action in fighting climate change. We equip students, residents, civic leaders, and local businesses with the ability to make informed and thoughtful decisions to create solutions for a healthy planet (see our Theory of Change). We advocate for:
– Equity for all communities
– Community-defined, resiliency-based solutions
– Alignment with science-based findings.
– In the course of our work, we strive to uphold and nurture:
– Diversity, or the representation of all our varied identities and differences (race, ethnicity, gender, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, tribe, caste, socio-economic status, thinking, learning, and communication styles, etc.), collectively and as individuals. We think of diversity as all the ways that we are similar, different, and unique.
– Inclusion and a culture of belonging, which is built by actively inviting the contribution and participation of all people. If Diversity is being asked to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance. Every person’s voice adds value, and we strive to create an environment where all folks with different identities feel valued, welcome, and leveraged within any setting. No one person can or should be called upon to represent an entire community.
– Equity, or the fair treatment, equality of opportunity, and fair access to information and resources for all. It recognizes that different advantages and barriers exist, and that we do not all start from the same place. Equity begins by acknowledging that unequal starting place and making a commitment to correct and address the imbalance.
– So many of our fellows join the team as full time employees of Acterra-we believe in mentorship and building leaders.
Remote or On-Site Placement
Hybrid