Intern, Market & Policy Innovation
Position Title:
Spring Intern, Policy Innovations
Supervisor:
Senior Manager, Market & Policy Innovations
Department/Division:
Market & Policy Innovations
Hours:
20 hours workweek (hourly)
Location:
Washington, DC preferred/remote possible
Hourly Rate:
$25 per hour
Term:
January 23, 2023 – April 28, 2023 (3 months)
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Why Intern with CEBA?
As an intern, you will gain professional skills and experience in a non-profit business association while working alongside our world-class team. You will have a birds-eye view of how system change can be accomplished and will grow to understand the daily tasks and activities that will get us there.
Interns learn about clean energy including how energy customers across all sectors, like Google, General Motors, Johnson & Johnson, and Citi are shifting the energy system, while building professional skills across a wide range of topics within the clean energy space.
Internship Overview/Summary:
The Policy Innovation intern will work broadly across CEBA and CEBI’s portfolios with an emphasis on organized wholesale markets and transmission. The intern will support related working groups, such as CEBA’s Western Working Group, Southeast Working Group, and Transmission Working Group. This may involve conducting research to help large energy customers understand the evolving status of market or transmission development and creating written materials to help buyers advocate for solutions that drive decarbonization. The intern will primarily support CEBI projects by providing research and development of educational materials on topics such as resource adequacy, transmission expansion, or system flexibility.
Core Intern Responsibilities:
- Tracking market development initiatives underway at the regional and state level, as well as actions taken by system operators and utilities
- Researching wholesale market level issues and summarizing key findings
- Synthesizing market developments into slides decks or email communications to educate buyers
- Working with external partners to develop buyer outreach and driven member engagement
- Driving the development of external-facing communications (e.g., factsheets, speaking points, webinars, blogs) to elevate the voice of large energy customers
- Helping to prepare and deliver meetings and webinars with members by developing agendas, presentations, and related materials
Required Qualifications
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Eligible to work in the U.S.
Additional Qualifications:
- Strong interest in clean energy with base knowledge of energy markets
- Passion for achieving CEBA’s vision of customer-driven clean energy for all
- Focused objective of CEBA’s core values of Respect, Integrity, Service and Excellence
- Able to work effectively with others in a collaborative, team-based environment
- Able to take initiative and solve problems independently
Internship Structure:
- Physical Demands: Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Benefits: Interns are not eligible for benefits including health, dental, vision, paid time off, and paid sick time. Interns receive pro-rated holiday pay during CEBA’s organization-wide holidays.
- Educational credit: Eligibility for credit is determined by your educational institution
- Schedule: 20 hours/ week & weekly schedule to be configured with your supervisor and class schedule.
- Orientation: All interns are required to virtually attend two welcome and orientation sessions, on January 23rd. Exceptions may be considered after hire.
- Content: Interns work directly with CEBA’s programs and quickly become an important part of the team. You work with a Supervisor who guides daily work, and a Mentor who ensures a positive experience and continual growth. Interns will identify 2-3 key objectives which you intend to meet throughout the course of the internship, agreed upon with your Supervisor, to ensure a mutually beneficial internship experience.
To Apply:
To be considered for this opportunity, please provide a resume and cover letter.
At CEBA You Belong
Our members come from all walks of life and so do we. Our commitment to a zero-carbon energy system is for everyone and so too is our workplace.
CEBA is committed to maintaining a workplace where all employees have an opportunity to participate and contribute to the success of the business and are valued for their skills, experience, and unique perspectives. This commitment is embodied in company policy and the way we do business at CEBA and is an important principle of sound business management.
Inclusion goes beyond diversity. All CEBA staff shall be committed to accepting and encouraging different perspectives. Creative solutions to tough problems are fostered by respectful challenging of one another’s thoughts and assumptions. CEBA is committed to being open to a variety of cultural practices and norms. We strive to ever increase our understanding and unveil our unconscious biases so we can counteract them.
Achieving CEBA’s vision of a resilient, zero-carbon energy system requires creative problem-solving and a wide range of perspectives; CEBA knows that diversity not only makes our organization stronger, but also is foundational to our mission success.
About Clean Energy Buyers Alliance
Together, the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) and the Clean Energy Buyers Institute (CEBI) form the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance, and share a collective vision of customer-driven clean energy for all. The Alliance is an inclusive community of energy customers, clean energy providers, service providers, NGOs, philanthropies, and clean energy thought-leaders. Our aspiration is to achieve a 90% carbon-free U.S. electricity system by 2030 and to cultivate a global community of energy customers driving clean energy.
The Clean Energy Buyers Association is a business association with a mission to activate a community of energy customers and partners to deploy market and policy solutions for a carbon-free energy system. The Clean Energy Buyers Institute is a public benefit charity with a mission dedicated to solving the toughest market and policy barriers to achieving a carbon-free energy system.
Our guiding values and tenets are: we value respect in our treatment of people and the planet; integrity in how we conduct ourselves; service to our mission, stakeholders, and colleagues; and excellence in our programs and work. The core tenets that CEBA strives to foster include: Mission oriented, grounded by strategy, a spirit of partnership inside and outside of CEBA and innovation and entrepreneurship through healthy and respectful discord. We know that diversity is critical to realizing our vision of customer-driven clean energy for all because innovative solutions come from great minds who do not think alike.
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