Policy Advisor, Clean Energy

Position Summary

Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is hiring a Building Decarbonization Policy Advisor or Senior Policy Advisor to join our Clean Energy team. The Building Decarbonization Policy Advisor will work to advance policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels in buildings across the Interior West, with a focus on policies to support beneficial electrification and reduce utility spending on gas distribution infrastructure. The Building Decarbonization Policy Advisor will develop research, analyses, testimony, and outreach materials; advocate for building decarbonization policies before state regulatory agencies and legislatures; build relationships with a diverse array of stakeholders; and advance WRA’s clean energy objectives and diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives. The Senior Policy Advisor will have significant experience and expertise and will take on the same work with greater responsibilities and independence; for details, please see the full job description.

About Western Resource Advocates

WRA fights climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. We respect the different needs of diverse people and partner with them to develop a shared vision for progress—one that advances communities while protecting biodiversity.

Our team of policy experts, scientists, economists, and attorneys has a 30-year history of working where decisions are made, sweating the details, creating evidence-based solutions, and holding decision makers accountable. This on the ground work with policymakers and other advocates advances clean energy, protects air, land, water, and wildlife—and sustains the lives and livelihoods of the West.

Location

This position may work remotely in one of the states in which WRA’s Clean Energy Program is active (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah); from one of WRA’s six offices; or a hybrid of the two. WRA has offices located in Boulder, CO; Carson City, NV; Denver, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Salt Lake City, UT; and Santa Fe, NM.