Energy and Resilience Strategist

Hagerty Consulting; Idaho; Remote; USD 55.000 - 117.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Hagerty Consulting, Inc. is seeking an Energy and Resilience Strategist for a proposal-based contract (1099). The role is remotely based with occasional client travel to Oregon.

The strategist will help clients leverage federal funds to advance energy resilience priorities and lead complex delivery teams. The candidate will have 5+ years in resilience/climate-related consulting, a relevant bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred), and strong communication and grant-related skills.

Qualifikationen

• Five or more years of professional experience in resilience, sustainability, climate, or environmental management.
• Bachelor’s degree in public administration, public policy, environmental science, emergency management, engineering, energy, sustainability, or related field; Master’s preferred.
• Experience helping communities develop energy resilience plans, resilience strategies, microgrid projects, or FEMA hazard mitigation plans.
• Experience providing planning, technical assistance, facilitation, or project development support for governments, utilities, or public-serving entities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with clients.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Aufgaben

• Collaborate with clients to design and deliver resilience and energy initiatives.
• Conduct resilience and climate risk assessments.
• Research and benchmark industry resilience programs and initiatives.
• Document community priorities and plan energy resilience strategies.
• Identify locations for microgrids and resilience hubs and guide site prioritization.
• Support feasibility and project development activities for energy resilience concepts.
• Coordinate microgrid screenings and site-readiness reviews.
• Facilitate discussions with community partners to inform decisions.

Kenntnisse

Excellent communication

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Jobbeschreibung

Hagerty Consulting, Inc. (Hagerty) is the nation's leading emergency management and homeland security consulting firm. Known for its public spirit, innovative thinking, problem-solving, and exceptional people, Hagerty is sought after to work on some of the largest and most complex crisis and emergency management issues. We serve our clients across the nation to enhance their preparedness programs; create more resilient and sustainable communities; provide innovative solutions to enhance their response; and obtain and manage grants and loans to support their recovery.

Position Summary:

The Energy and Resilience Strategist will contribute to helping our clients navigate community energy resilience priorities and projects and how federal, state, and other grant funds may be used to fund priorities and projects. A successful candidate will support complex client delivery teams of internal and external stakeholders at the intersection of energy, resilience, federal funding, and grant writing. This is a proposal-based contract position; engagement is contingent upon successful contract award. This position is open to Independent Contractors (1099) only at this time; as such, a valid Employer Identification Number (EIN) will be required in order to be considered for this opportunity. This position is expected to be remotely based with client travel to Oregon involved as needed.

Responsibilities for the Energy and Resilience Strategist Include:

• Collaborate with clients to design and deliver solutions to achieve strategic priorities for resilience and climate initiatives.
• Conduct resilience and climate-related risk and opportunity assessments.
• Research and benchmark industry-wide resilience and climate programs and initiatives.
• Document community priorities, vulnerabilities, critical facilities, existing or potential energy resilience hubs, clean energy opportunities and recommended implementation pathways in an energy resilience plan or planning document.
• Support communities in identifying and prioritizing locations for potential microgrids, critical facility resilience projects and resilience hubs that improve community preparedness and resilience to natural disasters and long-term energy disruptions.
• Support and guide communities as they work to identify critical facilities and energy resilience hub sites, facilitate community discussions on site prioritization, support interpretation of relevant data and mapping tools, and translate insights into decisions about priority sites and projects.
• Assist clients in advancing prioritized energy resilience concepts into feasibility or other project-development activities.
• Coordinate and support communities through microgrid screenings, energy resilience hub concept development, utility considerations, site-readiness review, project-development sequencing and technical assistance.
• Facilitate discussions with community partners on technical analyses, project concepts, and key considerations to support informed decision-making and project advancement.

Qualifications for the Energy and Resilience Strategist Include:

• Minimum of five (5) years of professional consulting, government, and/or non-profit experience focused on resilience, sustainability, climate, and/or environmental management.
• Bachelor’s degree in public administration, public policy, environmental science, emergency management, engineering, energy, sustainability, or a related field; Master's Degree is preferred.
• Experience supporting communities with the development of energy resilience plans, energy resilience strategies, microgrid projects, FEMA hazard mitigation plans, or other community resilience or planning initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience providing community planning, technical assistance, facilitation, or project development support for local governments, Tribal governments, emergency management personnel, community-based organizations, utilities, nonprofits, or other public-serving entities in the state of Oregon.
• Experience supporting energy resilience, clean energy, climate resilience, hazard mitigation, or infrastructure planning, grant development, or related initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and capacity to work directly with clients, managing relationships and providing advisory services.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Compensation for the Federal Grant Writer and Resilience Strategist Includes:

• Salary Range of $40-$85/hr. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience and training, licensure and certifications, internal equity, location, travel requirements, and other business and organizational needs.

Hagerty Consulting is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity/national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status, characteristic, or condition protected by local, state, or federal law. We promote equal opportunity in all our employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training, promotion, demotion, transfer, lay-off and termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.

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