Responsibilities

• Regulatory campaign engagement (70%): Represent SUN in administrative public utility commission proceedings, including through drafting organizational comments, submitting expert testimony, or preparing other regulatory filings.
• Collaborate with community, advocacy, and solar industry partners, and help, lead or support coalition meetings, as necessary.
• Work with the Policy & Advocacy Team to engage and mobilize SUN s bipartisan network of solar homeowners and advocates by creating constituent engagement plans to complement SUN s advocacy within regulatory proceedings.
• Work with the Communications Team to develop advocacy alerts, web pages and blogs, earned media pieces, and paid and organic social media.
• Help build broad and robust networks to support SUN s VPP policies and engage in public outreach via webinars, conferences, and events to socialize the products, learnings, and findings of our regulatory initiatives and campaigns.
• Assist with tracking and reporting for grant reporting, annual reports, etc.
• Data Center policy support (20%): Support SUN s emerging work on data center policy by researching and drafting model language regarding data center bring your own capacity programs as a companion to our VPP model policy.
• Help identify strategic utility commission proceeding opportunities regarding data centers for SUN to participate in.
• Contribute technical expertise and help inform strategy for SUN s data center working group to refine organizational policy regarding data centers.
• Promote our VPP and data center policies with regulators, policy advocates, solar industry, community leaders, and others.
• Organization-wide administration (10%): Actively contribute to a workplace culture aligned with SUN s values of equity, inclusion, continuous learning, action-oriented, and people-centered.
• Show up fully for learning and planning and activities, including all-staff meetings, retreats, and strategy sessions.
• Coordinate and work with external consultants as needed.
• Facilitate meetings, prepare agendas, and take notes.
• As a key member of the team, contribute to brainstorming, developing, and executing new ideas.
• Manage your own regular administration, including timely submission of timesheets, receipts, reimbursements, scheduling, travel planning, and HR paperwork.
• Other projects or tasks as assigned.
• Work environment: Occasionally lift and move equipment or packages up to 50 pounds; Remain in a stationary position and work at a computer for extended periods; Travel occasionally by car and airplane to attend or support events, workshops and staff retreats; Stand for extended periods while supporting events and/or community outreach activities.

Requirements

• Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship
• Minimum 4 years of participation and engagement in public utility commission regulatory proceedings.
• Experience drafting or contributing to regulatory filings, comments, or testimony.
• Ability to present complex policies to a variety of audiences, including public utility commissioners and their staff, media, and the general public.
• Strong analytic and writing skills.
• Ability to work independently, collaboratively, and strategically
• Keen sense on how to build the strategy, alliances, narrative, and technical analysis necessary to be successful in a public utility commission proceeding.
• Experience in building and being a productive member of complex internal and external teams.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and navigate competing demands in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge in: Computer skills

Preferred

• Passion for creating an equitable energy system where everyone gets to make and benefit from their own local power.
• Knowledge of distributed solar, data center, and/or VPP policies and regulatory proceedings.
• Experience in advocacy campaigns, including strategies and tactics to engage and mobilize activists and working with coalition partners in regulatory arenas.
• Experience in working with or representing nonprofit organizations.
• Experience in working well in remote/distributed teams.
• Spanish language proficiency.

Benefits

• Salary compensation from $95,000 - $105,000 based on experience
• Fun, remote work environment
• Flexible work hours
• Generous paid leave, vacation and wellness time
• Medical (84%-99% coverage for employees and dependents), vision, and dental insurance
• Paid holiday on all federal holidays - plus the day after Thanksgiving, the week between Christmas and New Year s Day off, and two additional days of your choice
• $1,000/year professional development stipend
• $50/month phone and internet stipend
• 401(k) retirement account with match after 1 year
• Meaningful, impactful work