Officer, Clean Energy Policy

Application Deadline: Friday, February 14, 2025

The Environment Portfolio

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.   

In the sea, reforms to how our oceans are managed are essential to address overfishing, pollution, and loss of habitat. Pew began its oceans program in the United States, focusing on ending overfishing and protecting fragile marine habitat. Starting in 2005, Pew’s ocean conservation program expanded around the world and played a significant role in reforming marine fisheries management in the European Union and on the high seas and creating large scale marine reserves around the world.

Our work is grounded in the best available science and pursues domestic and international conservation measures that are long-term and provide permanent, durable protections for marine ecosystems. We also work to address systemic threats to the ocean, including from plastics, over-and-illegal fishing, seabed mining, and climate change. 

Located in Pew’s Washington, DC, office, this position will participate in Pew’s core in-office days on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and will have flexibility to work from home the remainder of each week. 

Responsibilities  

• Foster a work environment that is diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible and in line with Pew and the project’s related goals. 

• Provide project management to a federal clean energy coalition composed of key stakeholders, government relations staff, and consultants.  

• Maintain a wide-ranging knowledge of federal policy and regulations on clean energy, develop supporting materials for senior staff.  

• Support the campaign team in analyzing state policy and regulations and develop related written content such as web analysis and policy fact sheets.  

• Coordinate and manage on-the-ground partner relationships and coalition activities. Ensure effective communication and collaboration of activities to impact public policy. 

• Provide technical assistance to state and federal government officials through written or oral testimony, research, white papers, or convenings. 

• Represent the project with external stakeholders at conferences and other expert opportunities and with national and state media.  

• Contribute to and participate in tasks of the department, as well as broader Pew-related projects and activities. 

Requirements  

• Proven track record of the ability to apply effective qualitative analytical skills to synthesize large amounts of information quickly and summarize findings effectively.  

• Knowledge and experience working in the energy industry or as an advocate for clean energy at the federal or state level.   

• Aptitude to apply a non-partisan, evidence-based approach to projects and campaigns that require support across the political spectrum.  

• Excellent political, strategic and analytical abilities with proven program management skills to develop, execute and evaluate a range of diverse strategies to achieve goals. 

• Attention to detail and project management skills.  

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.  

• Generally 8 years of applicable experience. 

Key attributes and preferred experience  

• Naturally develops and manages productive and collaborative relationships. 

• Comfortable meeting multiple deadlines and balancing multiple projects at once in a matrix-style team environment. 

• Experience with federal policy or state policy institutions or frameworks preferred. 

• Knowledge of the U.S. clean energy policy field. 

• Experience working in a policy or government relations role within government or the public sector.  

Travel  

This position requires about 20% domestic travel to meetings and conferences.