Manager - Low-income and Affordable Housing Policy

at  Rocky Mountain Institute

Are you a thoughtful and experienced people leader with a desire to improve housing equity, reduce energy burden, and eliminate fossil fuel use in buildings? Are you eager to work with a diverse set of stakeholders to develop policy solutions? Are you dedicated to centering equity and justice in your work and helping others to do the same? If yes, then join our growing Carbon-Free Buildings team!

DEADLINE: APPLY BY 7/12/2022

RMI’s Carbon-Free Building team is seeking an Equity Manager to lead equitable clean buildings policy work, which includes a focus on the role of electrification in decarbonizing homes and buildings in low-income communities. RMI’s Carbon-Free Buildings program seeks to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. buildings by 2045 through solutions that build a just and equitable energy transition for all. The Carbon-Free Buildings team works though research, technical analysis, communications, policy analysis and advocacy, and collaboration with partner organizations to achieve its goals. RMI is also seeking to share power with traditionally marginalized people in a just, inclusive and meaningful way, working with them to address systemic injustice, inequity and oppression.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of professional work experience including 1+ year as a team manager
• Experience managing external stakeholder relationships
• Excellent writing and verbal communication and organizational skills

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior work or volunteer experience with climate and environmental justice, racial justice, energy justice, or housing justice organizations, including in the affordable housing and tenant rights space.
• Familiarity with energy and climate policy, particularly as it relates to the buildings sector
• Highly collaborative, strong team player
• Willingness to plunge into unfamiliar disciplines
• A passion for RMI’s mission
• Ability to travel 10-20% (once public health conditions allow)
• Experience working directly with policymakers and regulators
• Experience with energy policy and/or advocacy campaigns

The Equity Manager will help the Carbon-Free Buildings team advance equitable building decarbonization in collaboration with external partners, especially those from historically marginalized and underserved communities, environmental justice, and affordable housing focused groups. This is an externally focused policy and campaign development and leadership role, not an internally-focused “DEI” or HR position.
Specifically, the Manager has three core functions, which we will iterate on with time based on the team’s needs and the Manager’s capacities and interests. The Equity Manager will: