About GRID Alternatives:
GRID Alternatives is a national leader in making clean, affordable solar power and solar jobs accessible to low-income communities and communities of color.GRID is an entrepreneurial, high-growth non-profit organization that provides direct solar installation and project development; workforce training and service learning opportunities; and low-income solar policy advocacy.
Our vision: a transition to clean, renewable energy that includes and benefits everyone.
At GRID, we care about each other and know that each employee has a whole self that includes life outside of work. Our culture supports learning, growth and well-being of all of our team members.
Based in Oakland, California, GRID has 9 regional offices and affiliates serving all of California, Colorado, Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware; GRID also works in Nicaragua, Mexico and Nepal. GRID has a dedicated staff of 350 and growing!
POSITION DESCRIPTION & RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Lead and oversee outreach to income-qualified homeowners and affordable housing residents who have opportunity to benefit from no-cost solar power, energy efficiency programs, and/or other GRID programs
• Manage a team of Outreach staff, setting team and individual goals, providing supervision, coaching and training to create the conditions for team success through meetings, check-ins, and evaluations
• Develop and implement an effective and efficient outreach strategy that attracts new clients to GRID’s programs and meets monthly enrollment goals
• Work with Directors and Outreach staff to create and maintain relationships with local government agencies, community-based organizations, affordable housing developers and other stakeholders who can assist in promoting GRID’s program and/or provide additional funding for our projects
• Work collaboratively with Director of Operations and Programs and the Construction, Development, Workforce Programs teams to meet monthly and yearly solar installation goals as well as funding specific goals in a timely manner
• Monitor, measure, and manage all Outreach department activities and progress towards goals through a Salesforce CRM database
• Continually work to explore new strategies to attract and engage better with clients, as well as to improve and streamline internal systems and processes
• Advance the organization's equity, inclusion, and diversity work and understand that this can only be achieved within a framework of social, economic, and environmental justice
