Responsibilities

• Crafting strong messaging designed to increase the popularity of clean energy technologies with key stakeholders, especially working class, rural, and other diverse communities;
• Developing and managing a quarterly and annual communications strategy and content calendar for the design, execution, and release of high-impact products, public opinion polling, earned and social media outreach, and other public-facing content that advances CEP’s goals.
• Educating internal and external stakeholders, including national and statewide campaigns, NGO and labor union partners, policymakers, and institutional and individual philanthropy, on Third Way messaging;
• Marketing our ideas to the traditional media outlets, podcasts, and emerging media voices, including on highly sensitive issues with complex political cross pressures;
• Leading, coaching, and developing the CEP communications team, including shepherding products from start to finish, reviewing and refining drafts, and ensuring consistent messaging across our work;
• Spearheading strategic partnerships to advance our goals and managing relationships with the media and complex networks of partners on and off the Hill;
• Overseeing special projects that communicate our policy objectives in new and creative ways, including measuring and communicating our impact to key audiences, creation of interactive maps and microsites, spearheading state-level communications efforts to test messaging on the ground, and researching and writing long-form research projects on effective communication in the energy space;
• Developing and managing the CEP communications budget, including paid media, polling, consultants, vendors, and special communications initiatives.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of progressively responsible communications, public affairs, media, or advocacy experience, including experience developing strategy and managing staff;
• Strong relationships with national and trade press and a passion for advocating for a technology-inclusive approach to the clean energy transition;
• Excellent written and verbal ability, with a knack for editing and synthesizing complex ideas;
• A creative approach to marketing and drawing attention to our work despite a crowded and fractured media environment;
• A demonstrated ability to understand complex political and media environments, and deploy an array of tools, including public opinion research, social media, and earned media outreach, to advance our messages and policies in the press, with advocates, on the Hill and in the Administration;
• A compassionate, attentive, and thoughtful managerial style and strong ability to work collaboratively;
• A graduate degree or an undergraduate degree in a relevant field plus exceptionally relevant work experience.

Preferred

• Some familiarity with the energy sector, climate mitigation, and US politics is preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance; Health Reimbursement Account (HRA); and Flexible Spending Account (FSA, DCA, Parking, and Transit); Life Insurance; Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance; Retirement plan; Accrued Paid Sick and Vacation leave; Long-term Disability, Employee Assistant Program (EAP).