Why Intern with REBA?
Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) is driving towards a zero-carbon energy future. REBA Interns gain essential professional skills and experience in a non-profit trade association while working alongside a world-class team. They gain both the birds-eye view of how system change can be accomplished and understand the daily tasks and activities which ensure its realization. They learn about renewable energy including how corporations across all sectors, like Google, General Motors, and Citi are shifting the energy system, while building professional skills across a diverse range of topics.

About REBA

REBA is an alliance of large clean energy buyers, developers, service providers, and NGOs, who are unlocking the marketplace for all non-residential energy buyers to lead a rapid transition to a cleaner, prosperous, zero-carbon energy future. 

To achieve this mission, we:

·        Educate: we accelerate and grow RE transactions by ensuring the best ideas are understood and perpetuated, through in-person, online, and published education;

·        Innovate: we solve the toughest barriers to unlock clean energy markets, through new and visionary market structure, policy and regulatory breakthroughs, and technology acceleration;

·        Activate: we grow the community and build relationships between energy buyers, as well as with energy providers and industry experts to accelerate transactions, solve barriers, and unlock markets;

·        Communicate: we drive education and innovation by tracking, sharing, and amplifying key trends, best practices and other information.

We value respect in our treatment of people and the planet; Integrity in how we conduct ourselves; Service to REBA’s mission, members, and colleagues; and Excellence in our programs and work. Diversity is critical to realizing a zero-carbon energy system. We invite collaboration among people with differing perspectives, identities, and ideas because innovative solutions come from great minds who do not think alike.

Internship Structure

Compensation:  This internship position pays $20 per hour. Academic credit for this internship may be available through your institution.

Start Date:  Flexible based on availability

Length of Internship: 3 months, with possibility to extend based on performance and availability.

Schedule: 40 hours/week

Location: REBA DC office: 1425 K St NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005

Internship Content: Interns work directly in one or more of REBA’s programs and quickly become an essential part of the team. They work with an Intern Mentor who supports daily work, and an Intern Supervisor who ensures a positive experience and continual growth. Interns will identify 2-4 key objectives which they intend to meet throughout the course of the internship, agreed upon by their Supervisor.

 Core Responsibilities 

·        Manage/update membership data and lead info in Salesforce

·        Prospect membership leads online (review current sustainability goals / add intel to Salesforce)

·        Develop monthly newsletter for membership sharing overview of REBA’s programmatic work

·        Work with REBA membership team on other projects as assigned 

·        Students currently enrolled in a post-graduate degree program in any of the following disciplines:  marketing, communications, business management, environmental science, energy management, conservation, sustainability

·        Experience with Salesforce, Pardot, Excel

·        Excellent communications skills and Professional demeanor for member-facing work

·        Demonstrate values that align with REBA’s: respect, integrity, service, excellence, diversity 

·        Diligent with an eye for detail

·        Self-motivated

·        Communicate openly

Please submit your cover letter and resume no later than March 13, 2020.

REBA is an Equal Opportunity Employer where applicants are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, color, age, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, registered domestic partner status, caregiver status, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other legally protected category