Job Summary
Future Energy Enterprises is seeking a highly motivated professional to support clean energy and energy efficiency stakeholder engagement and collaborative initiatives in Illinois, currently focused on low-income and disadvantaged communities and individuals. This role will facilitate and coordinate an energy efficiency advisory committee of community-based organization representatives focused on energy efficiency programs, policies, and market issues, while supporting research, analysis, and coordination activities that advance clean energy goals.
The ideal candidate has experience or education working with clean energy, energy efficiency or sustainability programs or policy issues, strong organizational skills, and the ability to synthesize technical and stakeholder information into actionable outcomes. This individual should be comfortable coordinating meetings, managing follow-up activities, conducting research and analysis, and engaging with diverse stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Support facilitation and coordination of energy efficiency stakeholder committees and working groups.
· Prepare meeting agendas, presentation materials, action item trackers, meeting notes, and follow-up communications.
· Conduct research and analysis related to clean energy and energy efficiency programs, policy issues, market trends, and stakeholder priorities.
· Analyze energy efficiency program data and synthesize findings into clear summaries and recommendations.
· Support stakeholder outreach and engagement activities with utilities, contractors, community organizations, and other program partners.
· Track committee action items, deliverables, and deadlines to ensure timely follow-through.
· Develop presentations, summaries, and supporting documentation for meetings and stakeholder discussions.
· Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities for program and process improvement.
· Support special projects and cross-functional initiatives as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
· Experience: (Preferred)3 to 5 years of experience in energy efficiency, clean energy programs, stakeholder engagement, program coordination, policy support, or related fields. Preferred candidates with experience working with stakeholder groups and disadvantaged communities and individuals.
· Education: Masters Degree (preferred) orBachelor’s Degree in environmental studies, urban studies or planning, public policy, communications, business, or related field/experience.
· Soft Skills: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Experience organizing and analyzing data and documents.
Competencies
· Strong stakeholder engagement skills
· Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
· Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail
· Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
· Collaborative, proactive, and self-directed
· Comfortable working with both technical and non-technical audiences
· Demonstrates initiative and adaptability in a fast-paced environment
About Us
Future Energy Enterprises is a majority woman-owned business with experience with all aspects of energy efficiency program design and administration for business, commercial, industrial, public sector and residential customers.
Utilities, businesses and others are challenged to meet their energy needs cost-effectively and cleanly due to shifting energy costs, changes in energy supply resource mix, localized capacity constraints, technological advances, as well as overarching climate change policies. Traditional energy supply resources, such as coal-fired generation facilities, produce emissions linked to global climate change and are increasingly costly to construct. Energy efficiency is now recognized as a cost-effective alternative to meet energy needs without the climate change impacts produced by carbon-based generation resources.
Future Energy Enterprises develops and supports programs to ensure program administrators achieve their goals with cost-effective and clean energy resources, including energy efficiency, conservation, demand response, and renewable energy. Clean energy resources can reduce costs, increase customer and employee satisfaction, and significantly reduce climate change impacts from energy use.
Company Values
Be Respectful /Kind: Treat others as you’d like to be treated. Thoughtfully consider others’ feedback before responding.
Be Excellent: Be your best; collectively we set a high bar for our industry and peers. Pay attention to detail.
Be Impactful: Develop a plan to make a difference; collectively, we set new directions.
Be Engaged: Be passionate about our work and goals.
Be Bold/Courageous: Treat barriers as opportunities; seek to drive progress (with finesse)
Be Growing: Embrace learning and seek opportunities to grow your knowledge and skills
Be a Leader: Recognize that the shadow you cast influences those around you.
Be Inclusive: Recognize that the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts. We all have different strengths, stop and think about that as you approach your work.