About REBA

The Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) is an alliance of large clean energy buyers, developers, and service providers who, together with NGO partners, are unlocking the marketplace for all non-residential energy buyers to lead a rapid transition to a cleaner, prosperous, zero-carbon energy future.  REBA’s vision is a resilient zero-carbon energy system where every organization has a viable, expedient, and cost-effective pathway to renewable energy.

About the REBA Institute

The REBA Institute delivers transformational renewable energy research, thought leadership, and education to identify barriers, best practices, and solutions to today’s clean energy challenges.

Position Overview

This position will work with the Director of Communications, Marketing, and PR to support REBA and the REBA Institute communications initiatives through research, planning, stakeholder outreach, and execution and monitoring of key advocacy campaigns. This includes research and media analyses of energy market policy and regulatory trends, and topical areas, such as clean tech and grid decarbonization, to support proactive media relations; editorial planning for institutional content; reporting on campaign engagement and marketing efforts; and contributing to executive communications.

Core Responsibilities

Be a key member of the Communications Team with a focus on developing and executing strategies to elevate the profile and priorities of REBA’s Policy and Market Innovations program through essential duties and responsibilities, including:

• Collaboration with program leadership to develop compelling key messages across the program’s core advocacy initiatives to support internal and external communications.
• Implementation of strategic and coordinated approach to proactive advocacy PR efforts, including identification of program activities that align with current, relevant media coverage.
• Support development, execution, and monitoring of high-profile MarComm campaigns, including creation of supplemental materials, stakeholder outreach, and analysis of impact.
• Manage program-specific and institutional editorial calendars to ensure cohesive and timely execution across projects and priorities, and advise on opportunities to position program leadership through convenings, publications, and peer organizations.
• Craft engaging written and visual communications products, including advocacy letters, blogs, rapid-response commentary representing organizational priorities, social media content, newsletters, presentations, and op-eds.
• Other duties as prioritized in partnership with program leadership.

•    Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred)--or equivalent professional experience--in business, communications, English, energy or environmental science, marketing, policy, public relations, or sustainability
•    3-5 years of public relations, communications, or government relations experience, preferably at a mission-driven nonprofit, trade association, public relations agency, government office or clean energy company.
•    Ability to distill complex policy and regulatory topics into compelling narratives. 
•    Ability to deliver high-quality products that complement high-profile advocacy campaigns.
•    Exceptional written and verbal communications skills with the ability to leverage visual aids (graphics, videos, PowerPoint presentations).
•    Ability to manage many tasks, prioritize amongst tasks, and willingness/ability to ask for support or guidance when needed.
•    Direct experience in clean energy industry strongly preferred 
•    Ability to work in a fast-paced environment. 

Compensation

REBA strives for pay equity, based on experience, qualifications, and performance.  REBA's Associate/Sr. Associate salary band is $68,000-$103,500 with a 5% bonus opportunity. We anticipate most candidates for this particular role to join REBA toward the beginning of the Associate range--closer to $70,000--but more experienced professionals will be considered as well.

Our Benefits

We offer a generous benefit package that aims to develop a world-class team by holistically supporting the individual.  REBA believes that supporting all employees to have a full life, inside and outside of work, results in a team that feels personally engaged in REBA’s success. 

Benefits including:

• Quality Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, with substantial employer subsidy
• 401(k), with employer match
• Life, AD&D, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Generous Parental Leave for both mothers and fathers to bond when new children enter a family
• Commuter and Wellness Benefits
• Casual Work Environment
• Highly Flexible PTO
• Earned sabbatical policy

Our Commitment to Diversity

Achieving REBA’s vision of a resilient, zero-carbon energy system requires creative problem-solving and a wide range of perspectives; REBA knows that diversity not only makes our organization stronger, but also is foundational to our mission success.

REBA is committed to creating and maintaining a workplace in which all employees have an opportunity to participate and contribute to the success of the business and are valued for their skills, experience, and unique perspectives. This commitment is embodied in company policy and the way we do business at REBA and is an important principle of sound business management.

Inclusion goes beyond diversity. All REBA staff shall be committed to accepting and encouraging different perspectives. Creative solutions to tough problems is fostered by respectful challenging of one another’s thoughts and assumptions. REBA will strive for inclusion also by being open to a variety of cultural practices and norms. We will strive to ever increase our understanding and unveil our unconscious biases.

REBA 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.