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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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Manager, Business Development

Salary: $66,800-87,100

Location: Remote

Team: Administrative

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We are seeking a detail-oriented and strategic Proposal Manager to join our growing team. The Proposal Manager role is a contract-to-hire position for an initial term of 6 months, with the potential for full-time employment based on performance and organizational needs. The Proposal Manager will lead and manage the development of proposals for…

We are seeking a detail-oriented and strategic Proposal Manager to join our growing team. The Proposal Manager role is a contract-to-hire position for an initial term of 6 months, with the potential for full-time employment based on performance and organizational needs. The Proposal Manager will lead and manage the development of proposals for clean energy programs and initiatives. In this role, you will collaborate across departments to craft compelling, high-quality proposals, ensuring alignment with CSE’s mission and objectives. You will also manage content within Responsive, our proposal management platform, and support budget development for proposal submissions.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Sample Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Proposal Management:
1. Manage the end-to-end proposal process, from initial RFP analysis to final submission.
2. Serve as the central point of contact for all RFPs, overseeing systems, operations, status updates, and deadlines.
3. Ensure the seamless execution of CSE's integrated RFP process by maintaining strong coordination and on-time delivery of multiple proposals.
4. Act as the primary coordinator for cross-team communications, ensuring deadlines, progress status, and deliverables are aligned.
5. Oversee version control, ensuring timely submissions and accurate updates throughout the proposal development process.
6. Facilitate reviews and approvals with internal teams and stakeholders, ensuring all sections meet quality and compliance standards.
Proposal Writing:
1. Write and edit high-quality, compelling proposals, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with RFP requirements.
2. Develop persuasive narratives that highlight CSE’s strengths and align with client needs.
3. Work closely with subject matter experts, program managers, and marketing teams to gather and synthesize proposal content.
4. Ensure proposals adhere to all RFP formatting, document structure, and compliance requirements.
5. Provide direct support for proposal writing when necessary to meet submission deadlines.
Content Management:
1. Manage and maintain a repository of proposal content within the Responsive platform.
2. Ensure the proposal content library is up to date, with accurate and reusable content blocks.
Budget Support:
1. Collaborate with the finance team to assist in developing project budgets for proposals.
2. Ensure alignment between budget narratives and technical proposals.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Sample Essential Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Required

Strong writing and editing skills with the ability to distill complex technical information into clear, persuasive language.
Experience in a fast-paced environment managing multiple simultaneous projects.
Familiarity with proposal management software (experience with Responsive is a plus).
Excellent organizational and project management skills, with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
Experience working cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and subject matter experts.
Proficiency in MS Office Suite, Adobe PDF, etc.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across diverse teams.

Preferred

Familiarity with government and utility RFPs in clean energy, transportation, or energy efficiency programs.
Understanding of clean energy and sustainability concepts.
Operational mindset with experience optimizing systems and processes.
Experience with Salesforce.
Experience assisting with budget development for proposals.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in English, communications, business, environmental science, or a related field.

Experience:

5+ years of experience in proposal management and writing, preferably in the clean energy sector.

Licenses, Certificates or Registrations:

CF APMP, CAPM, or PMP

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work Environment:

Remote.
Occasional travel within California required

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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Senior Research Analyst

Salary: $80,000-105,100

Location: Remote

Team: Research & Analysis

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This position is integral to the CSE’s Transparency and Insights (T&I) team, which supports the organization’s policy development, program implementation, and marketing and outreach activities. The Research Analyst will contribute to CSE’s analytical capacity, particularly in quantitative and qualitative analysis, statistical methods, data…

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Create and build consensus about research or evaluation questions, design research or evaluation plan to answer those questions, and oversee implementation of that plan.
Quantitative and Qualitative Research
1. Compile, read, and summarize existing literature to frame research efforts and inform policy.
2. Design data collection instruments, including interview/focus group protocols and surveys.
3. Program and test survey questions in online platforms.
4. Conduct interviews/focus groups with program participants or other stakeholders and organize data for analysis.
5. Assemble, process, analyze and interpret data from various sources, potentially in coordination with external research partners.
6. Perform statistical analyses, including descriptive and inferential statistics, and GIS-based spatial analysis.
7. Conduct qualitative data analyses using qualitative data analysis software.
8. Document research procedures and help develop standard operating procedures. Support T&I capacity building activities related to survey and qualitative research.
Write or oversee creation of written reports and proposals describing research methods, summary of key findings, detailed research findings, static and interactive visualization of findings, data sources.
Work independently and in collaboration with members of T&I team to achieve objectives.
Support developing and maintaining web-based data visualizations, maps and reporting tools.
Access and facilitate reporting from existing programs, customer relationship management (CRM) databases, and enterprise resource planning software databases.
Support the development of analytical tools for program assessment, tracking and evaluation, including projections of budgets and participation rates.
Support program staff or participate in public reporting calls and committees.
Lead or support teammates in developing presentations for internal and external clients and other technical and non-technical audiences.
Maintain effective working relationships with internal and external clients and other stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Familiarity with one or more of the following:
1. Survey platforms (e.g., Alchemer, Qualtrics)
2. Qualitative Data Analysis software (e.g., NVivo, Dovetail)
3. Statistical analysis tools (e.g., Python, R)
4. Data visualization platforms (e.g., Tableau, Figma, Flourish, PowerBI, Canva)
Quantitative and qualitative data collection
Quantitative and qualitative analysis and reporting
Extraordinary attention to detail, organizational and problem-solving skills
Strong oral and written communication skills
Self-motivated to meet deadlines of multiple concurrent projects using project management tools
The ability to develop and implement quality assurance protocols
Demonstrated propensity to communicate with teammates proactively in a remote environment and seek feedback on work
Interest in working with data, research and sustainable energy initiatives

Preferred

Understanding of the energy sector or markets or policy related to electric vehicles, energy efficiency, distributed generation or energy storage
Proficiency in Tableau
Comfort working with Python
Postgraduate degree

Education and Experience:

2-4 years’ experience in a collaborative knowledge-work environment
Bachelor's degree in social science, environmental science, statistics, or related field.
Additional work experience may be substituted to satisfy the education requirement.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work Environment:

Works in a home office or office environment.

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Manager, PMO Transportation

Salary: $66,800-87,100

Location: Remote

Team: Clean Transportation

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The team at CSE is looking for a dedicated individual to join our team as a PMO Manager. Reporting to the Transportation PMO Senior Manager, the PMO Manager will be an integral part of the Project Management Office (PMO). The PMO Manager will lead, oversee and collaborate with our team of project managers to ensure successful project outcomes. Responsibilities include managing the day-to-day PMO activities, developing and providing guidance on PMO policies, processes, and procedures, and ensuring that our project management operations are efficient and continuously improving. The PMO Manager will support the PMO Senior Manager in implementing operational efficiencies, and monitoring project resourcing, timelines, and budgets.

To be a successful PMO Manager, you should demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills, be well organized and able to work under pressure. If you have experience leading and managing a team, are eager to learn and are looking for a new challenge, then we want to hear from you!

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Evaluate current project processes and create and implement new methods for enhancing project quality and efficiency.
Support projects through budget tracking, invoicing and proposal budget preparation.
Support the management and leadership of the company in all project matters, establishing an efficient organizational structure with necessary tools and resources.
Collaborate with team leaders and project managers on project-related initiatives, meeting regularly to review project status, identify issues, and develop strategies to improve the project management process.
Monitor progress against plans and schedules, identifying and resolving problems, and updating project plans as needed.
Provide training and ongoing support to the project management team.
Monitor daily activities to ensure that procedures are working to achieve program goals and to support efficient project management operations.
Monitor the project operations and ensure that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently while upholding the company's standards.
Coordinate, organize and track progress of PMO tasks.
Communicate and collaborate with the project management team and both internal and external department leadership as necessary.
Schedule and lead meetings with Project Managers for status updates and project support.
Send out meeting notes and follow up on action items as appropriate.
Create project reports, SOPs for PMO tasks, and presentations as requested.
Collaborate with the PMO team to improve project management standardization and best practices across the department.
Provide overall operational support and perform other related administrative duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Demonstrated advanced proficiency using various computer software programs including MS Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Working knowledge of project management software (i.e., Teamwork, Monday.com, Asana, Slack, etc.) preferred.
Ability to take initiative, be proactive, work with minimal supervision and delegate.
Demonstrated proficiency in project management through all five phases (initiating, planning, execution, monitoring, closing).
Extremely detail-oriented with exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to perform within required deadlines.
Strong coordination, time management and planning skills.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Eager to discover new and improved operational improvements and ability to successfully execute their implementation.
Ability to effectively handle multiple tasks and changing priorities.
Curious, motivated, pro-active and a self-starter keen to solve problems.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required.
PMP certification Preferred
Six Sigma Certification Preferred

Experience:

5-8 years of related experience required.
A minimum of five years' experience working within operations.
A minimum of three years’ experience in a supervisory position may be advantageous.
Strong leadership skills.
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Strong attention to details and technicalities.
Excellent organizational and technical skills.
Good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work Environment:

Remote Work.

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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Visual Analytics Specialist- Lead Tableau Developer

Salary: $73,200-95,900/yr.

Location: Remote

Team: Research & Analysis

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Job Summary

Job Summary

The Visual Analytics Specialist position is an integral part of the Center for Sustainable Energy’s (CSE) Transparency and Insights (T&I) team, which supports the organization’s policy development, program implementation, and marketing and outreach activities. T&I is a dynamic group of over 30 researchers, data scientists, and program managers that works across all CSE’s major program areas: clean vehicles, electric vehicle infrastructure, distributed energy resources, and more. The Visual Analytics Specialist will contribute to CSE’s analytical capacity, particularly by implementing ETL (extract, transform, load) to curate datasets for visualization, descriptive data statistics and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) processes to guarantee accuracy, and UX/UI dashboard design processes to develop accessible static and interactive visualizations.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Data Visualization and Reporting

Lead the development and maintenance of interactive and static data visualizations, which can range from web-based interactive dashboards, maps, predictive models, and reporting tools, as well as static tables and charts.
Design and develop data visualizations using CSE’s iterative process that routinely involves client interaction (user story interviews and user testing, and wireframe design and presentation).
Understand and implement best practices for UX/UI and accessibility.
Access data and facilitate reporting from existing databases.
Use and maintain standards of practice documentation, complete projects, and ensure consistent quality across our visual analytic deliverables.
Own quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) processes of visual products (data and functionality).
Contribute to training modules and learning opportunities for staff to learn visual analytics skills, such as UX//UI, accessibility-related topics.
Be a resource and mentor for junior staff implementing data visualization best practices.
Manage client expectations (e.g., prioritization of feedback while considering best practices).

Research and Statistical Methods

Perform statistical analysis (descriptive statistics) and/or GIS-based spatial analysis.
Perform quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) on data analyses conducted by research analysts.
Assemble, manipulate, analyze, and interpret data from various sources, potentially in coordination with external research partners.
Compile, read, and summarize existing literature to frame research efforts and inform policy.

CSE Program Support

Lead the identification and development of visual analytical tools for program assessment, tracking, and evaluation, including projections of budgets, hours, and participation rates.
Support program staff or senior members of T&I team in developing presentations.
Lead the presentation of materials to clients for feedback, including wireframes and visual minimal viable products (MVPs).
Contribute to business development initiatives when needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Required

Data Visualization Software/Libraries (Intermediate/Advanced proficiency)

Familiarity with applying basic and intermediate data visualization approaches
Experience building interactive dashboards and static visualizations utilizing Tableau Cloud, Tableau Public, Tableau Desktop, Tableau Prep, PowerBI, Flourish, Datawrapper, Plotly Dash, Plotly, Matplotlib, Seaborn or other comparable software preferred
Understand and apply visual hierarchy and container organization best practices
Implement interactive features, including parameters, filtering, and actions
Familiarity with data connectors

Graphic Design Software (Beginner/Intermediate proficiency)

Familiarity with designing wireframes using Figma, Canva, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator experience or other comparable software
Knowledge of scalable vector graphics (SVG)
Experience applying basic graphic design principles

UX/UI (Beginner/Intermediate proficiency)

Experience collecting user stories and conducting user testing
Understand how to effectively ensure smooth transition from test environment to production environment; Ability to test the production environment

Data Management (Intermediate proficiency)

General knowledge of ETL processing
SQL experience preferred, not required

Microsoft Excel (Intermediate/Advanced proficiency)

Look-up, index matching, calculations, pivot tables

Microsoft Word and PowerPoint (Intermediate proficiency)
Extraordinary attention to detail, organizational and problem-solving skills
Strong oral and written communication skills
Self-motivated to meet deadlines of multiple concurrent projects using project management tools
Proven ability to implement quality assurance protocols
Demonstrated propensity to proactively communicate with teammates in a remote environment and seek feedback on work
Interest in working with data, research and sustainable energy initiatives

Preferred

Understanding of electricity sector (including rates) and/or markets or policy related to electric vehicles, energy efficiency, distributed generation and/or energy storage. (Beginner/Intermediate proficiency)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (Beginner/Intermediate proficiency)

Knowledge of vector-based analysis, spatial joins, static map production, and use of Coordinate Reference Systems (CRS)
Understand best practice for geospatial database maintenance
Apply cartographic principles
Update and maintain web geoprocessing services
Familiarity with ESRI ArcGIS product suite, ArcPy, QGIS, geopandas, or comparable software preferred

Survey and qualitative statistical analysis tools (Beginner proficiency)

Survey platforms (e.g., Alchemer, Qualtrics)
Statistical analysis tools (e.g., Python, R)
Qualitative analysis tools (e.g., Dovetail, NVivo)

Web Development (Beginner/Intermediate proficiency)

HTML/CSS/JavaScript
Customization, data visualization libraries

Programming (Intermediate proficiency)

Dataframe manipulation and calculations
API experience strongly preferred
Python and/or statistical software (R, STATA) experience strongly preferred
Webscraping experience preferred, not required
Data Management (Beginner proficiency)
1. Relational database development, maintenance, queries and reporting.

Education:

Master’s degree or equivalent. Substantial coursework in web design, data visualization, data analysis, and statistics. Majors in visual arts, graphic design, computer science, social science, environmental science, economics, or related fields preferred.

Coursework should show substantial data visualization, web design, and analytical content.

Additional work experience may be substituted to satisfy the education requirement.

Experience:

3-5 years of related experience

Licenses, Certificates or Registrations:

WORKING CONDITIONS

Work Environment:

Works in a home (remote) or 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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Director of Regulatory Engagement

Salary: $134,000 -150,000/yr.

Location: Remote

Team: Policy

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The Director of Regulatory Engagement will work closely in collaboration with the Director of Regulatory Affairs and Director of Government Affairs to develop and implement Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE)’s regulatory and policy agendas. The Director will facilitate CSE’s regulatory engagement activities, including ex-parte and quasi-legislative communications, as well as compliance filings, advice letters, and participation in relevant proceedings at the state and federal level. Foremost of the duties of the Director is to support CSE’s key relationships with state regulatory agencies, through regular meetings and continuous interactions, on behalf of both our existing programs and new initiatives. The Director will manage a team of two to five staff with expertise in specific policy subject matter and will lead the team in tracking proceedings and leading preparation of regulatory comments, as well as informing CSE program teams of relevant proceedings and decisions. The Director will work closely with policy and program staff to further specific program goals and enhance our organization’s reputation with regulators. This will involve establishing and maintaining routine communications and productive working relationships with regulatory agency officials, utility staff, and other key stakeholders while ensuring that policy team staff maintain them as well.

Core Responsibilities:

Lead the development and execution of CSE’s regulatory agency engagement, including ex-parte, quasi-legislative, and general informational meetings.
Direct regulatory engagement, including actively tracking key and participating in regulatory actions and proceedings, scheduling, filings, and notices regarding Distributed Energy Resources, Clean Transportation, Climate Change, and other mission-related topics.
Develop and maintain positive, productive relationships with agency commissioners, regulatory staff, and other relevant stakeholder leaders through a regular cadence of meetings and follow-up.
Assist in the development of CSE positions on specific legislative efforts in Distributed Energy Resources, Clean Transportation, Climate Change, and other mission-related areas.
Collaborate and coordinate with relevant stakeholder groups on regulatory initiatives.
Proactively engage key regional and statewide stakeholders on issues of importance to CSE’s mission.
Provide forward guidance to the Policy team and develop regulatory updates, including the Policy Team annual calendar.
Monitor state regulatory policy developments that are relevant to CSE; prepare written and oral reports interpreting and detailing these developments.
Represent CSE, its programs and policy positions in a variety of public and official forums.
Manage at least one and up to three direct reports supporting the above tasks, while fostering junior staff’s professional development.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

5-10 years of experience in state regulatory work.
In-depth knowledge of state regulatory agencies and processes, including ex-parte and other forms of communications, in addition to filings, response letters, and program handbooks.
Strong knowledge of, and relationships with, key networks in state government and agencies on issues related to sustainable energy and clean transportation.
Excellent skills in analyzing, understanding, and translating complex legislative and policy issues to advise on pending legislation, regulatory action, and changes in key government policy.
Direct experience with energy policy development and advocacy at the state level.
Excellent, efficient writing and editing abilities in the policy context.
Ability to communicate clearly, tactfully, and persuasively to individuals and groups.
Proven networking abilities and a talent for coalition-building and ideation.
Demonstrated success in developing robust policy solutions.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
Sense of discretion, independent judgment, and the ability to work effectively under deadline.
Proficiency with standard office software packages such as MS Office: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook.

Preferred

Knowledge of CSE programs/projects.
Highly developed research skills; ability to find and synthesize information on specific energy topics, utilizing the widest variety of credible sources.
In-depth knowledge of at least one transportation or energy-specific policy issue (preferably several).
Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously within sometimes challenging time constraints.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy or related discipline/coursework from a four-year college or university.
Juris Doctorate Degree Required
Must have passed The State Bar of California and remain in good standing

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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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