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CSE is a national nonprofit working coast to coast to build a future with sustainable, equitable and resilient transportation, buildings and communities. Because of our work, businesses, property owners and consumers have growing access to electric vehicles and EV charging, solar energy, energy storage and other sustainable solutions.

We design and administer large-scale government and utility incentive programs that accelerate effective, equitable adoption of clean transportation and distributed energy resources. Unlike most nonprofits, we fund our work through contracts that we compete for and win in the marketplace.

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About You

You are a creative thinker with a data-driven, entrepreneurial mindset. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and do your best work collaborating with a team. You’re passionate about sustainability, even if you’re not an environmental expert. You bring a strong sense of accountability along with your unique experiences and knowledge to the work.

You’re a program manager, data scientist, web developer, rebate processing specialist, policy analyst, marketing and outreach expert, engineer or support staffer eager to join us in our one mission: Decarbonize.

Our Remote–First Culture

CSE’s collaborative, innovative team of 250+ employees work from home across the U.S.

We offer a convenient, flexible remote working environment that fosters connection wherever you are through continuous communication, team activities and a shared vision for a sustainable future.

Together, we seek to empower the most engaged and exhilarated workforce in the world.

Our Programs

Comprehensive Benefits

Balance work and life

Flexible alternative work schedule
24 paid hours annually for professional development
Paid parental leave
Paid vacation, sick time and 12 paid
holidays (including your birthday)

Note: Alternative work schedule not available for exempt positions.

Prioritize your health and well-being

Comprehensive medical insurance options (HMOs and PPOs, including HDHP with HSA)
Dental and vision insurance
Supplemental life insurance
Health care and dependent care flexible spending account
Employee assistance program
Gym/fitness reimbursement

Plan for the future

403(b) retirement plan with employer match
Long-term disability
Basic life and AD&D insurance option
LegalShield and ID protection option

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Coordinator, Oregon

Salary: $47,700-61,600/yr.

Location: Remote

Team: Clean Transportation

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Responsible for general support of various Clean Transportation projects with a focus on training of rebate processing specialists and overseeing income-related operations for administration of statewide clean transportation programs. Under general supervision from the Clean Transportation Operations Managers, the Coordinator will assume responsibilities that include program implementation, team training and support, process updates, client/partner engagement, and overall coordination of transportation program requirements and income verification.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Provide training and ongoing support to the transportation operations team of rebate processing specialists (RPS).
Provide logistical and administrative oversight to ensure quality control. Enforce program requirements, application procedures and standards, and support income verification processes.
Monitor daily activities to ensure that procedures are working to achieve program goals and to support efficient processing. Review program plans through the course of the fiscal year and advise the operations management team as necessary.
Make recommendations on transportation program design, including drafting Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), "cheat sheets,” program email templates and correspondence, and program evaluation and reporting.
Coordinate, organize and track progress of RPS tasks.
Manage application escalations and applicant complaints. Serve as point person for escalated customer service calls and emails as they relate to transportation operations and income verification.
Create program reports and presentations as needed. Contribute to data analysis and writing of transportation program reports.
Maintain and update the internal database of program processing and income verification related documentation, including SOPs and cheat sheets.
Handle inquiries about the program, eligible technologies, and project requirements.
Provide overall operational support to Project & Operations Managers.
Perform other related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required

Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Strong organizational, time management and planning skills. Ability to handle multiple tasks, changing priorities and working effectively under deadlines.
Must be extremely detail-oriented with exceptional problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated proficiency in customer service principles.
Ability to learn complex procedures and policies quickly.
Ability to take initiative, be proactive, and work with minimal supervision.
Basic knowledge of project management and best practices with data entry and documentation.
Demonstrable proficiency with standard office software packages (MS Office: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook), and advanced use of word processing, spreadsheets, databases and other standard software to create well-formatted documents and materials requiring interpretation and critical thought.
Familiarity with standard office procedures, filing, telephone techniques, and operation of office equipment.
Proficient in typing and use of proper English spelling, punctuation, and grammar in communications.

Preferred

General knowledge of income verification and income documentation.
Familiarity with California clean transportation policies and landscape.
Experience with advanced technology market transformation programs.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in area relevant to sustainable transportation and/or business practices, such as business administration, environmental/energy policy, transportation planning, environmental planning or environmental science or equivalent work experience required.
Master’s degree preferred.

Experience:

3-4 years of related experience.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work Environment:

Works in an office environment

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Must have manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and other equipment customarily present in an office environment.

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Project Manager

Salary: $79,500 - $90,000

Location: Remote

Team: Administrative

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The Manager, U.S. Transportation Programs, oversees the execution of a portfolio of projects and incentive programs aimed at decarbonizing the light -, medium -, and heavy-duty transportation sectors. The role’s primary responsibility is to manage the scope, schedule, and budget of multi-year projects and programs, coordinate internal matrix teams that support program operations, and maintain strong client relationships and high levels of customer satisfaction. The Manager will contribute to CSE’s thought leadership and support business development efforts and internal process improvement initiatives.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Manage program budgets, scopes of work, service level agreements and implementation timelines to ensure client satisfaction and contractual compliance.
Manage client relationships, ensuring CSE is a responsive and trusted partner.
Coordinate activities across CSE’s matrix teams to seamlessly deliver throughout all program life cycle phases.
Provide critical review and ensure a high-quality standard on all work products.
Prepare monthly client invoices for all work performed
Develop budget forecasts, track expenditures, identify monthly variances and consult with internal matrix teams, directors and the finance operations team to course correct as necessary.
Proactively identify program implementation risks and issues, escalate as necessary and take corrective actions.
Develop long-term program strategies by creating program implementation plans, monitoring their execution, and regularly reviewing and making recommendations for adapting plans as needed.
Familiarize themselves with relevant legislation and regulations for programs they oversee and ensure program compliance with statutes.
Contribute to, and occasionally lead, business development efforts, including developing program budgets, drafting responses to solicitations, and identifying project partners.
Support internal business process improvement initiatives.
Supervise direct reports, setting performance goals and expectations, providing feedback and coaching for professional development.
Perform other related duties as assigned.

Role Specific Responsibilities:

QUALIFICATION

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Required

Strong leadership and project/program management skills, including mastery of the scope/schedule/budget “triple constraint”.
Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and strong attention to detail.
Excellent oral and written communication skills, and an ability to distill complex ideas into simple, easy-to-understand terms
Demonstrated proficiency in a client-facing customer service role and the ability to work positively with various individuals across departments.
Proven track record of effective client management that include the processes and strategies a business uses to build, maintain, and strengthen relationships with clients ensuring their satisfaction and loyalty for long term success.
General knowledge of transportation and built environment decarbonization issues, and fundamentals of market transformation and theory of change.
Strong independent research skills and knowledge of applicable resources, including internet, regulatory and related industry documents.
Strong organizational, time management and planning skills, and the ability to perform within required deadlines.
Ability to handle multiple tasks, changing priorities and complex assignments.
Ability to use sound judgment in responding to issues and concerns.
Entrepreneurial, problem-solving mindset.
Demonstrated high-level of abilities in various project management tools such as Assana, Teamwork, and projectmanager.com
Fluency in using standard office software packages such as MS Office: PowerBI, Advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook, as well as ability to learn new software programs as needed.

Preferred

Experience working with utility and/or state agency clients
Working knowledge of managing grant agreements and government contracts
PMP certification or equivalent
LeanSixSigma certification or equivalent
3-5 years of experience in the clean energy or transportation industry
Experience with Salesforce and similar CRM platforms
Experience with advanced technology market transformation programs
Familiarity with clean transportation policies and landscape

Education:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required; Master’s degree preferred

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

Licenses, Certificates or Registrations:

N/A

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work Environment:

Works in a home (remote) or office environment

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Quality Assurance Engineer II

Salary: $95,600 - $108,600

Location: Remote

Team: Information Technology

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The QA Engineer II is a member of the Product Mgmt & Platform Development Team who will assess the quality of CSE solutions prior to release via manual and automated testing. CSE solutions include application processing platforms for clean energy incentive programs, such as California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project (CVRP). These solutions include a front-end CMS system and back-end Salesforce and document storage systems. The QA Engineer II collaborates with a team of Business Analysts and Front-end and Back-end Developers (including external Development partners) to understand requirements, design test plans/test cases and execute them to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required:

Review and analyze system requirements and specifications.
Collaborate with Platform Project Management to set milestones and tasks representing all required QA phases.
Develop and document effective test strategies and plans.
Create requirements traceability matrices to ensure adequate testing coverage.
Assign test plans and manage cross-functional team resources to ensure extensive and complete test coverage.
Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results.
Responsible for testing front-end websites and user experience, backend APIs, integrations, and databases, along with mobile applications.
Triage issues found and document each defect clearly and concisely.
Assist developers in identifying root cause and define corrective actions.
Assist in creating acceptance criteria for user stories and requirements.
Participate in Backlog Grooming sessions and Sprint planning and provide input for testing estimates.
Develop and maintain automated scripts for regression testing.
Suggest and implement process improvements for platform quality assurance and testing processes.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required

Must have Salesforce experience.
Proven experience in testing web applications with knowledge of cross browsers and user interface testing technique.
Familiarity with Drupal (or other front-end technologies), PHP, SQL, Web Services.
Knowledge of various testing methods – Unit testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, Acceptance Testing (Smoke testing) Regression Testing, Black-Box/White Box Testing and when to apply what.
Knowledge of scripting and automated testing frameworks.
Familiar with Software Development Lifecycle and QA methodologies.
A self-starter who sets priorities and undertakes complex tasks with minimal supervision.
Can effectively work on multiple projects concurrently and with varying development methodologies – agile, scrum, waterfall.
Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
Customer-focused and results driven.
Communicate effectively in both oral and written form; compose and edit written materials; explain technical concepts in non-technical terms to staff and customers; research and learn new software and adapt to changes in technology; prioritize, organize, and schedule work assignments and projects; establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted during work.

Preferred

Working knowledge of Jira as a test management tool.
Experience with Confluence and Podio a plus.
Experience with Agile Development methodology.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with coursework related to the area of assignment.

Experience:

3-4 years of experience
An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job as listed above.

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Jr. Data Scientist

Salary: $62,900-81,900/yr.

Location: Remote

Team: Research & Analysis

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The Junior Data Scientist is an essential member of the CSE's Transparency and Insights (T&I) team, supporting the organization's analysis, evaluation, and implementation of decarbonization programs. This role enhances the team's capabilities by ensuring efficient and reliable access to program data, managing, analyzing, and interpreting data…

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Data Analysis and Insights Generation

Extract, transform, analyze, and interpret data from diverse sources to meet both internal and external client requirements.
Apply descriptive statistics, statistical models and machine learning techniques to derive insights from data.
Ensure the quality and accuracy of data operations and analysis performed, implementing quality control (QC) measures.
Document analytical methods and contribute to the development of standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Data Visualization and Application Support

Develop and maintain web-based data visualizations, interactive maps, and reporting tools to communicate insights effectively.
Facilitate the extraction and reporting of data from PostgreSQL databases, flat files, columnar file formats, and other data sources.
Work under the mentorship of senior T&I team members to meet project objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required

Technical Proficiency

Proficient in Python for data and statistical analysis, utilizing libraries like pandas, matplotlib, and sklearn.
Knowledgeable in object-oriented programming and ETL pipeline development.
Experienced with software version control using Git.
Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Cloud Computing

Basic knowledge of AWS services such as IAM, EC2 and RDS.

Soft Skills

Exceptional attention to detail, along with strong organizational and problem-solving abilities.
Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
Self-motivated with the ability to manage deadlines for multiple concurrent projects, using project management tools effectively.
Proactive in communicating with team members in a remote environment and open to seeking and receiving feedback.

Special Interests

A keen interest in data science applications within research and sustainable energy sectors.

Preferred

Skilled in geospatial analysis, including the use of libraries like Geopandas and Shapely.
A foundational understanding of the energy sector, including electric vehicles, energy efficiency, distributed generation, or energy storage.
Experience with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Plotly) and survey platforms (e.g., Alchemer).

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in a field with substantial analytical content, such as statistics, economics, computer science, social science, environmental science, or engineering.

Experience:

1-3 years of experience in data analysis or a related field.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work Environment:

Works in a home (remote) or office environment
Occasional evening and weekend work may be required to meet project deadlines.

Physical Demands:

Must have manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and other equipment customarily present in an office environment.

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Senior Project Accountant

Salary: $76,950 - $87,100

Location: Remote

Team: Administrative

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Accountant ensures timely and accurate full cycle accounting for specific government and non- government contracts. Project accounting includes tracking expenses against a budget, tracking revenue against funding, creating invoices for clients, uploading accounts payable invoices, processing payments to vendors, and working with project managers…

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Distribute bi-monthly and month end labor reports and non-labor cost reports to project managers for review within the established workflow timelines.
Process labor and non-labor cost corrections.
Work with Project managers to create monthly customer invoices.
Work with project managers to pursue collections on invoices.
Upload Rebate Application Vendors and Vendor bills.
Process Checks and ACH payments to rebate vendors.
Maintain log of remaining budget.
Maintain and reconcile YTD excel spreadsheet of employee utilization report and labor cost.
Assist with annual budget preparation.
Produce and maintain Excel budget template for programs.
Help conglomerate budget templates into a master file.
Work with department heads to forecast program budget.
Prepare budget vs actual report.
Assist with monthly financial statement preparation.
Document key accounting processes and controls.
Assist with cross-training of Accounting and Finance Team.
Assist with preparation of work papers for annual audits.
Perform various general ledger account reconciliations.
Assist with various special projects.
Perform other related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required

Experience in full cycle accounting, AP, AR, month end close activities, and accrual accounting.
Experience and understanding in setup, allocation, and segregation of direct and indirect costs.
Highly analytical and quantitative.
Effective writing, oral and interpersonal skills.
Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously within time constraints.
Flexibility to respond to changes in priorities and tight deadlines.
Demonstrate sound professional judgment and high integrity.
Demonstrate attention to detail, accuracy, and efficiency.
Ability to work independently, take initiative, set priorities, and see projects through to completion.
Thorough knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
Proficiency with MS Office: Excel, Word, Teams, and Outlook
Experience using Vlookups, Sumifs, and Pivot Table functions in excel.

Preferred

Exposure to Accounting Software
Prior exposure to a Cost Accounting environment and Payroll
Experience with Deltek Costpoint and ADP
Experience with cost plus contracts, time and materials contracts, fixed price contracts, accounting and government regulations, pricing proposals, and direct and indirect cost rates.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field or equivalent work experience required.
Master’s degree preferred.

Experience

4 -6 years of accounting and finance experienc

Licenses, Certificates or Registrations:

CPA preferred.

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Our Values

Data Driven

We use data to ensure our programs are effective and efficient and that funds are deployed to maximize benefits.

Inclusive

We achieve our vision by creating a collaborative, welcoming and supportive environment where everyone can belong and participate.

Independent

We employ a fee-for-service business model, freeing us from the influence of shareholders, members and donors, and ensuring our independence.

Entrepreneurial

We ask questions and turn ideas into action, continuously improving how we think, work and innovate.

Trusted

We approach every decision and interaction with integrity, honesty and transparency.

Our Values

Affirmative Action - CSE’s policy is to recruit, hire, train and promote into all job levels, employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, religious grooming or dress practices, gender identity, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.

E-Verify - CSE participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information to confirm U.S. work authorization. More about E-Verify

Background Checks - Based on the position, applicants may be asked to satisfactorily complete a criminal background check.

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Coordinator, Oregon

Project Manager

Quality Assurance Engineer II

Jr. Data Scientist

Senior Project Accountant

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