Manager, State Campaigns, Energy Modernization Project

The Environment Portfolio at The Pew Charitable Trusts  

For more than 30 years, Pew has been a major force in engaging the public and policy makers about the causes, consequences, and solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Our environment work spans all seven continents with more than 250 professionals working at the local, national, and international levels to reduce the scope and severity of global environmental problems, such as the erosion of large natural ecosystems that contain a great part of the world’s remaining biodiversity, and the destruction of the marine environment. Pew’s global environmental program focuses on science-based, nonpartisan, and sustainable solutions to help protect the planet and people. We work in partnership with governments, Indigenous rights holders, intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, local stakeholders, scientists, and other researchers to advance public policy so that nature and communities can thrive.  

Since 1990, Pew has worked in North America, South America and Australia to protect large and critically important terrestrial ecosystems, including rivers and other freshwater resources, coastal temperate rainforests, interior mountain ranges, the northern boreal forests, Australia’s Outback, and Chilean Patagonia. We work to ensure these natural systems remain bountiful, functioning, and resilient, providing essential ecological services such as clean air and clean water, sustenance and food security for local communities and more broadly for the welfare of current and future generations. Our work relies on the sciences of conservation, sociology, biology, and economics to advocate for practical and durable solutions to the loss of biodiversity.    

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The Energy Modernization Project 

The Energy Modernization Project aims to secure policies that help meet increasing energy demand and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by modernizing the transmission grid, accelerating adoption of distributed energy resources such as solar and batteries, and increasing clean energy generation. 

Position Overview  

The Manager, State Campaigns, Energy Modernization Project, plays an important role executing the project’s work to secure state-level regulatory and legislative policies that will modernize the transmission grid and accelerate the adoption of large-scale and local distributed energy generation. Reporting to the Project Director, State Campaigns, the manager supervises two staff and supports the development and implementation of state campaign strategies across priority states and policy areas. The manager will also manage a coalition of experts and advocates engaged on clean transmission policy adoption. 

Located in Pew’s Washington, D.C. office, this position participates in Pew’s hybrid work program with core days in the office and the flexibility to telework the remaining days. Staff also enjoy four telework “flex weeks” per year.   

Responsibilities  

• Foster a work environment that inspires excellence, values impact, encourages transparency, builds mutual trust and respect, embraces and values diversity, and is collaborative, caring and compassionate. 

• Manage and mentor members of the team, including ongoing professional development. 

• Collaborate with the Project Director to develop and support day-to-day activities of multiple state policy and advocacy campaigns that lead to grid modernization or distributed energy generation policy outcomes within a creative, fast-paced, action-oriented, and collegial environment. 

• Develop and manage productive and collabo