Associate/Senior Associate, External Affairs

Position Title: Associate/Senior Associate, External Affairs

Supervisor: Deputy Director, Marketing & Communications

Department/Division: External Affairs

Hours:40 hours workweek (exempt)

Location:Washington, D.C.

Salary range: $70,720 - $107,120 plus bonus & benefits

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Position Overview

The Associate/Senior Associate will join a growing strategic marketing and communications team, within External Affairs, aimed at elevating CEBA’s brand across the globe to achieve its vision of a carbon-free global electricity system.

This role will work with the Deputy Director, Marketing & Communications, to support CEBA communications initiatives aimed at amplifying the work of CEBA and its members. The role will support communications focused on engaging members, relying on research, planning, stakeholder outreach, and data analysis. The role will involve editorial planning for institutional content, reporting on campaign engagement and marketing efforts, and contributing to executive communications.

Core Responsibilities:

The Associate/Senior Associate is a key member of the External Affairs Team with a focus on developing and executing strategies to elevate the profile and priorities of CEBA through essential duties and responsibilities, including:

• Collaborate with program and communications leaders in developing compelling key messages across CEBA’s core advocacy initiatives to support communications to members, potential members, industry stakeholders, donors, and policy influencers.
• Craft engaging written and visual communications products, including advocacy letters, blogs, rapid-response commentary representing organizational priorities, social media content, newsletters, op-eds, and presentations.
• Support implementation of a strategic and coordinated approach to proactive advocacy public relations efforts, including identification of program activities that align with current, relevant media coverage.
• Create, execute, and monitor marketing and communications campaigns, including creation of materials, stakeholder outreach, and analysis of impact, adjusting campaigns as needed based on data analysis.
• Manage program-specific and institutional editorial calendars to ensure cohesive and timely execution across projects and priorities, and advise on opportunities to position program leaders through convenings, publications, and peer organizations.
• Support CEBA external affairs events by driving participant registration and supporting event curation.
• Support backend communications and marketing process and project management, including responsibility for managing accurate recipient lists for distribution, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 10+ years’ experience or 7+ years’ experience and bachelor's degree or 5+ years’ experience and master's degree

Additional:

• Experience in the clean energy, climate, trade association, or corporate environment preferred
• 3-5 years of public relations, communications, or government relations experience, preferably at a mission-driven nonprofit, trade association, public relations agency, government office, or clean energy company
• Ability to manage many tasks, prioritize among tasks, and willingness/ability to ask for support or guidance when needed
• Ability to craft compelling narratives to drive action
• Ability to create campaigns to drive results against KPIs
• Project management expertise to both manage incoming asks and predict and plan for the months ahead
• Ability to deliver high-quality products that complement high-profile advocacy campaigns
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills with the ability to leverage visual aids (graphics, videos, PowerPoint presentations)
• Direct experience in clean energy industry strongly preferred
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Physical Demands:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Travel to meetings, industry conferences, and events

To Apply:

To be considered for this opportunity, please provide a résumé and cover letter.

Our Salary and Benefits:
We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that aims to develop a world-class team by holistically supporting the individual. CEBA also offers eligibility to participate in our annual bonus/ incentive plan based on both organizational and individual performance. CEBA believes that supporting all employees to have a full life, inside and outside of work, results in a team that feels personally engaged in CEBA’s success.

Benefits We Offer You (generous policy, not comprehensive)

• 401(k), with 5% employer match
• Highly flexible PTO
• Quality Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, with substantial employer subsidy, including domestic partners
• Life, AD&D, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Generous Parental and Guardianship Leave
• Wellness benefits
• Casual work environment, with flexible hours

At CEBA You Belong:

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. Our commitment to diversity 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 challenges of one another’s thoughts and assumptions.

CEBA provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, results of genetic testing, caregiver status, and past, present or prospective service in the military in addition to any other protected categories required by state, federal or local regulations. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, discipline, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, benefits and training. All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About the Organizations

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.