Fall Intern, NextGen, GHG Accounting

Position Title: Fall Intern, NextGen, GHG Accounting

Supervisor: Senior Associate, Market & Policy Innovation

Department/Division: Market & Policy Innovation

Hours: 20 hours workweek (hourly)

Location: Washington, DC preferred/remote possible

Hourly Rate: $25 per hour

Term: September 19, 2022 – December 16, 2022 (3 months)

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 specifically working with the programmatic teams 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.

Intern Overview/Summary Responsibilities:

The NextGen (GHG Accounting) intern will support CEBI’s Next Generation Carbon-Free Electricity (CFE) Procurement Initiative in its efforts to expand the suite of CFE procurement options to drive systemic decarbonization impact to the electricity grid through voluntary market actions. The intern will assist in building educational materials such as infographics around the next evolution of greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and impact-based reporting metrics for electricity procurement. The intern may also coordinate work across the Innovation Team to support additional aspects of the NextGen Initiative, collaborate with external partners, and engage with a large set of multi-sector stakeholders.

Core Intern Responsibilities:

• Develop infographics and compelling visualizations that explain complex topics in simple terms.

• Research and analyze differences in attributional, consequential, and impact-based GHG accounting methods.

• Support the development of external-facing communications (e.g., position papers, op-eds, blog posts) to elevate the voice of large energy buyers.

• Assist in the creation of newsletters and communications materials.

• Attend educational webinars and briefings.

• Research and track updates on stakeholder progress toward priorities in key NextGen focus areas (e.g. energy attribute certificates and registries, GHG accounting standards, and leadership recognition programs).

• Research and analyze trends related to customers’ next generation procurement strategies.

• Provide updates in weekly staff meetings on project deliverables.

• Support preparation and delivery of 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.

Preferred or Additional Qualifications:

• Knowledge or experience with clean energy attribute certificates, greenhouse gas accounting standards (i.e. Greenhouse Gas Protocol), and customer goal-setting or leadership recognition programs (i.e. SBTi, RE100, etc.) preferred

• Knowledge or experience with corporate clean energy procurement preferred

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint preferred

• Passion for achieving CEBA’s vision of customer-driven clean energy for all

• Shared commitment to 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 determined with your supervisor, capped at 20 hours.

• Orientation: all interns are required to virtually attend two welcome and orientation sessions. 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.

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.

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 your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.