Community Engagement Associate

Full-time, Remote, Exempt

About Rewiring America

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

Position Summary

The Community Engagement Associate is a dynamic and passionate advocate responsible for supporting systems-level change in the clean energy sector. Beginning in 2024, government-subsidized rebates, incentives and financing products will become available to households across the country to electrify and decarbonize. This new role helps to accelerate electrification by building relationships with communities around the country, listening and understanding their needs, building their enthusiasm for electrification, and connecting them to the expertise and resources they will need to be able to implement electrification programs. You will join our Rewiring Communities initiative, a high performing and cross-functional programmatic team to implement household electrification projects. The Community Engagement Associate will be a part of the Rewiring America Community Team and the newly created Power Forward Communities coalition.

In this role, the Community Engagement Associate must be committed to an equitable approach to electrification and should actively center and amplify Justice40 communities in stakeholder campaigns.

This role will report to Rewiring America’s Director of Local Engagement.

What you’ll do

As the Community Engagement Associate, you will support implementation for several Rewiring America partnered programs. Responsibilities may include: 

• Be a primary point of contact for current and future communities in our Power Forward Communities (PFC) and Local Government Leaders Coalitions (LGL)
• Help to manage content for our Local Resource Hub
• Become an expert on Rewiring America’s electrification tools and resources and curate and synthesize these resources to guide and educate community leaders and members
• Work with our communications and creatives team to roll out electrification tools and resource launches and press releases  to local leaders across the country
• Write and publish community electrification stories, distilling lessons learned that can be deployed in other communities
• Create and manage cohorts of sister communities to share best practices and lessons learned from their electrification efforts
• Organize and maintain our ongoing communications with Local Government Leaders coalition members including authoring our monthly newsletter
• Manage a Salesforce CRM to report communications, engagement, and relationship mapping  with national and regional partners and members of our LGL and PFC coalitions
• Utilize a variety of tools, including Asana, to track all internal LGL and PFC Coalition tasks across Rewiring America teams.
• Utilize tools such as Notion and Google Drive to organize presentations and resources as it relates to our Coalition work
• Produce resources and lead electrification trainings for participants from across the country
• Serve as a partner and stakeholder in the development and implementation of coalition and partner programming that increases coalition members’ commitment to electrification
• Travel to attend and represent Rewiring America at convening, events and conferences to build relationships, advance Rewiring America’s brand, and recruit new partners into our coalitions
• Speak publicly at in-person and virtual forums to generate interest and inspire engagement in electrification programs
• Collaborate with a wide variety of national and local partners, including Habitat for Humanity, United Way, National League of Cities, USDN, C40, and Climate Mayors

Requirements

Who you are

The ideal candidate for the Community Engagement Associate embodies the following qualities and characteristics, tailored to an advocacy nonprofit: