Education and Engagement, Graduate Intern

  • Intern

Company Description

Why Intern with REBA?
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

The Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (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.

Job Description

Internship Structure

Compensation:  $20 per hour. Credit for this internship may be available through your institution.

Start Date:  Flexible based on availability

Length of Internship: 12 weeks (with opportunity for continuation, based on individual performance and program need)

Schedule: 40 hours/week

Location: 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

  • Help to create case studies, primers, or other written guidance for Member community on renewable energy topics. 
  • Support content identification and delivery for the REBA Solutions Forum (October).
  • Support delivery of content to members via webinars, virtual workshops, or other formats

Qualifications

We are seeking applicants with the following qualifications:·       

  • 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
  • Specific research or project experience in renewable energy
  • Writing experience

We are looking for individuals who exhibit these capabilities:

  • self-motivation
  • diligent with an eye for quality
  • effective collaboration skills
  • desire to learn and grow their skills and expertise
  • communicate openly 
  • demonstrate values that align with REBA’s: respect, integrity, service, excellence, diversity

Additional Information

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are due no later than March 13, 2020.  

As indicated above, 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.