Energy Efficiency Outreach Organizer, Bay Localize

Energy Efficiency Outreach Organizer, Bay Localize

Bay Localize, an Oakland-based nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing the emergence of a regional, self-reliant economy that strengthens all Bay Area communities, is contracting an Energy Efficiency Outreach Organizer with a very specific set of skills and experience for a ten-month time period for approximately 10 hours a week.

Role Description: The Energy Efficiency Outreach Organizer contractor is responsible for conducting outreach to and organizing faith communities to implement residential energy efficiency programs with the congregants.

Essential Job Functions:

Conduct outreach to and organize congregants in selected faith communities to run a residential energy efficiency program, coordinating closely with religious leaders.
Conduct baseline data entry and coordinate with local utility to access energy use information.
Coordinate with partner organizations and residents to schedule home energy audits.
Coordinate with partner organizations and residents to schedule home energy efficiency upgrades.
Conduct extensive follow-up and case management with select congregants identified as high energy users.
Assess post-program energy use data.
Conduct post-program evaluation interviews.
Assist in preparing final project reports.
Participate in weekly Bay Localize team meetings.
Participate in monthly Bay Localize steering committee meetings.
Skills and Qualifications:

Experience collaborating with diverse urban faith communities.
Strong knowledge of residential energy efficiency audits and upgrades.
Excellent verbal communication skills, ranging from public speaking to large groups to one-on-one follow-up.
Excellent organizational skills with attention to detailed case management.
Familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel, and web-based e-mail programs.
Enthusiastic, organized, and reliable.
Self-starter capable of working independently and also as part of a team.
Experience and comfort with team consensus process.
Knowledge of and commitment to environmental and social justice.
Non-profit program experience a plus.
Flexible hours, including availability and for some Sunday morning and weekday evening meetings and presentations.
This is a ten-month, approximately 10 hour/week contract position beginning in May, 2009, compensated at an hourly rate between $28 and $33/hour based on experience. The contractor is welcome to work from a home office or from the Bay Localize office in downtown Oakland.

Equal opportunity employer: women, low-income, LGBT, and people of color strongly encouraged to apply. To apply, please send a resume and writing sample to Kirsten Schwind, Bay Localize Program Director, at kirsten@baylocalize.org


Aaron Lehmer
Network Development Director, Bay Localize
"Building Stronger Communities through Regional Self-Reliance"
436 14th Street, Suite 1127
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 834-0420 [Office]
(415) 613-4781 [Cell]
aaron@baylocalize.org
http://www.baylocalize.org