As a Manager, you are a creative project leader who will guide and manage team members to craft visionary yet practical solutions for our industry partners and research. You will also be the primary project manager and work closely with and under the direction of RMI’s Principals and Managing Directors to design and execute projects. In this role, you will:

• Sometimes be an individual contributor but are most often responsible for managing and guiding more junior staff, particularly Associates and sometimes Senior Associates.
• Have responsibility for managing projects and/or significant portions of initiatives. You will work with Principals and Managing Directors to provide mentorship, professional development, and project reviews of more junior staff.
• Contribute to strategy-level conversations about initiatives and RMI.
• Have developed expertise in one area and are conversant in one or more additional areas, such as capacity development or microgrid/minigrid development. You will represent RMI externally at mid-level technical events and engage with small to mid-sized groups.
• Begin to participate in business development and sometimes have a significant role in that area.

We strongly encourage individuals of underrepresented groups to apply!

Core Responsibilities:

Managing projects to yield breakthrough insights and results

• With senior guidance, shape project strategies from inception to conclusion: determine change models, research methods, timelines, resource plans, communications plans, and stakeholder engagement.
• Determine how results will be measured and be accountable for project results, rigorously challenging and validating findings from RMI teams and partners.
• Act as the lead relationship manager with project partners and stakeholders.
• Coach and motivate project team members and resolve any issues throughout project life cycle, including writing project-level reviews for junior staff
• Oversee teams that number between 2 to 25 contributors (internal and external).
• Regularly contribute to external interviews, videos, and publications to share project insights.
• Work together with our development team to develop funding strategies.

Provides thought leadership

• Develop strategies for scaling energy efficiency and/or renewables, domestically and internationally
• Develop strategies for advancing capacity building efforts to support energy practitioners in advancing the energy transition
• Lead and contribute to research efforts and publications
• Represent RMI as an industry expert at key conferences and other public speaking events

Additional Responsibilities:

• Apply principles of social innovation and facilitation to the design and delivery of collaborative multi-stakeholder processes
• Engage RMI geography teams and content experts to identify and integrate knowledge, experience, and expertise into Energy Transition Academy strategy and offerings.
• Support the design and development of program strategy
• Engage with leadership across RMI to achieve the programmatic and project needs of the Energy Transition Academy