Contractor Opportunity Announcement:
Energy Efficiency Outreach Organizer, Bay Localize

Bay Localize, an Oakland-based nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing the emergence of a regional, self-reliant economy that strengthens all Bay Area communities, is contracting an Energy Efficiency Outreach Organizer with a very specific set of skills and experience for a ten-month time period for approximately 10 hours a week.

Role Description: The Energy Efficiency Outreach Organizer contractor is responsible for conducting outreach to and organizing faith communities to implement residential energy efficiency programs with the congregants.

Essential Job Functions:

• Conduct outreach to and organize congregants in selected faith communities to run a residential energy efficiency program, coordinating closely with religious leaders.
• Conduct baseline data entry and coordinate with local utility to access energy use information.
• Coordinate with partner organizations and residents to schedule home energy audits.
• Coordinate with partner organizations and residents to schedule home energy efficiency upgrades.
• Conduct extensive follow-up and case management with select congregants identified as high energy users.
• Assess post-program energy use data.
• Conduct post-program evaluation interviews.
• Assist in preparing final project reports.
• Participate in weekly Bay Localize team meetings.
• Participate in monthly Bay Localize steering committee meetings.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience collaborating with diverse urban faith communities.
• Strong knowledge of residential energy efficiency audits and upgrades.
• Excellent verbal communication skills, ranging from public speaking to large groups to one-on-one follow-up.
• Excellent organizational skills with attention to detailed case management.
• Familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel, and web-based e-mail programs.
• Enthusiastic, organized, and reliable.
• Self-starter capable of working independently and also as part of a team.
• Experience and comfort with team consensus process.
• Knowledge of and commitment to environmental and social justice.
• Non-profit program experience a plus.
• Flexible hours, including availability and for some Sunday morning and weekday evening meetings and presentations.

This is a ten-month, approximately 10 hour/week contract position beginning in May, 2009, compensated at an hourly rate between $28 and $33/hour based on experience. The contractor is welcome to work from a home office or from the Bay Localize office in downtown Oakland.

Equal opportunity employer: women, low-income, LGBT, and people of color strongly encouraged to apply. To apply, please send a resume and writing sample to Kirsten Schwind, Bay Localize Program Director, at kirsten@baylocalize.org