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Senior Director, Climate & Energy – Electric Power
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Deadline: Open until filled
Location: USA
Organization:Ceres (Sustainability is the Bottom Line)
Job type:Permanent position
Languages:
English
Work experience:Min 12 years
Salary: Become a member
Date posted: May 27, 2025
Expected starting date: As soon as possible
Description
About Ceres
Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization leading the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. Through our powerful networks and advocacy, we tackle the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and human rights abuses.
For more information about Ceres, please visit our website (www.ceres.org).
Here at Ceres, we value integrity, equity, belonging, compassion, and respect. We demonstrate those values through how we communicate and collaborate with our colleagues and external partners; and embody them in our decision making and advocacy efforts to create a more just and sustainable future.
Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization leading the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. Through our powerful networks and advocacy, we tackle the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and human rights abuses.
For more information about Ceres, please visit our website (www.ceres.org).
Here at Ceres, we value integrity, equity, belonging, compassion, and respect. We demonstrate those values through how we communicate and collaborate with our colleagues and external partners; and embody them in our decision making and advocacy efforts to create a more just and sustainable future.
About the Climate and Energy Team
The Climate and Energy (CE) team works to decarbonize the highest emitting sectors of the U.S economy, including electric power, oil and gas, steel, and transportation. This sectoral approach involves direct engagement with investors and companies to advance sustainable solutions, transition current business practices to mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis and create a more just and equitable world.
About the Role
The Senior Director, Electric Power, leads the CE Electric Power team and directs strategic oversight of electric power work throughout the organization. The Senior Director provides oversight of Ceres work with investors, companies and other key stakeholders focused on encouraging power companies to make ambitious climate commitments, develops climate transition action plans, makes timely progress towards climate commitments, and advocates for leading climate and clean energy policies. This position will collaborate closely with various teams across the organization working on corporate climate commitments and policy. The Senior Director, Electric Power, will manage key projects and campaigns related to the electric power and natural gas distribution sectors. This is a full-time salaried position, and reports to the Program Director, Climate & Energy.
Specific duties may include but are not limited to the following:
- Lead and direct Ceres’ comprehensive electric power work across the entire organization.
- Supervise electric power program staff, including conducting regular performance assessments, leading annual team and individual goal-setting processes, managing team budget, conducting quarterly check-in meetings and more frequent team managements meetings as necessary.
- Utilizing Ceres’ theory of change to develop Ceres’ overall strategy for decarbonizing the Electric Power sector in alignment with the best climate science.
- Work closely with Ceres’ Development Team to develop fundraising proposals to support Ceres’ electric power sector work and generate new ideas to secure additional funding.
- Advance Ceres’ cross-organizational emissions-reduction strategy on engaging companies in related sectors, potentially including transportation, oil & gas, and heavy industry.
- Provide guidance to and collaborate with Ceres’ Policy Network on setting and pursuing state and federal clean energy policy priorities and strategies, including through research, writing, advocacy, and constituent outreach and organizing.
- Collaborate with Ceres’ Company Network to support engagement plans with electric and gas utilities that are members of the Ceres Company Network.
- Present Ceres’ strategic and advocacy voice in engagements with external partners and at strategic convenings and events regarding the electric power sector.
- Ensure that Ceres’ electric power sector work addresses Just Transition (JT) and helps advance emerging JT best practices for the sector.
- Partner closely with the CE Senior Communications Manager to develop and execute a leading Communications plan to broadcast Ceres electric power success stories and impact.
- As organizational needs arise, and upon successful internal readiness evaluation by the communications and marketing team and relevant program leaders, this person may be called upon to serve as a public spokesperson for external speaking and media engagements and/or as a lead or contributing author for thought leadership. Duties could include managing editorial projects from start to finish, leading and/or supporting message and content development for reports, briefs, and op-eds and media materials, as well as managing consultants and partners.
- Develop Ceres’ intellectual capital and thought leadership (for example: analyses, white papers and reports, facilitation and training guides, presentations) for critical audiences including policymakers, companies, investors, trade publications and trade associations.
- Travel as necessary for conferences, speaking opportunities, and company and investor engagements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience required.
- Minimum of twelve (12) years of full-time related experience and seven (7) years of experience in the electric power sector required.
- Strong connections networks across the electric power sector, along with the ability to engage at the business, board and CEO level.
- Knowledge of, and experience related to related to the electric power sector, climate change, clean energy investment and finance, federal and state policies and agencies relevant to the sector, including the Inflation Reduction Act, EPA and FERC amongst others, and corporate sustainability issues.
- Experience supervising staff, including ability to provide training, support staff development, and manage sensitive personnel matters.
- Understanding of business and financial sector capabilities, methods, and practices for achieving positive sustainability outcomes.
- Fluency with corporate sustainability policies and disclosures, frameworks and platforms.
- Sound judgment, sensitivity to diverse constituencies, excellent interpersonal skills, superior leadership ability, strong initiative and motivation.
- Successful record of organizing and executing multiple projects and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent research and writing skills.
- Experience supervising staff members or external consultants.
- Strong meeting facilitation and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working with the media, a plus.
- Knowledge regarding clean energy investment and finance.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Proficient with word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and e-mail computer applications.
- Interest in being part of a diverse and inclusive workforce and willingness to support Ceres’ Commitment to Inclusion and Equity.
Compensation and Benefits
The hiring salary is $130,100 – $155,000 with competitive benefits (Pay Grade 20). Ceres offers fantastic benefits including opportunities for hybrid and remote work; 80%, 82% or 85% (depending on your coverage election) employer paid health insurance and 85% employer paid dental insurance; a 403(b) retirement plan with a generous match that starts on day one; generous allowances for commuter and work from home expenses; flexible spending accounts to set aside money on a pre-tax basis for eligible expenses; 10 holidays, generous vacation, and additional paid time off including week-long summer and winter breaks, summer Fridays, and sick, personal, and parental leave.
Ceres Culture
Everyone has a role to play in the movement towards a more just and sustainable world.
At Ceres, we are committed to intentionally and carefully curating, engaging, and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We endeavor to create a supportive environment that sparks innovation, fosters respect, and allows Ceres employees, in all roles at all levels, to come together equally to be fulfilled, successful, and to thrive.
Ceres is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, and we do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any factors prohibited by applicable law.
If you have questions related to the above statement or need a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact our ADA Coordinator at ADArequest@ceres.org. Please note, this email address is for ADA inquiries only.
To Apply
We encourage all applicants to review our website to familiarize themselves with Ceres before applying: www.ceres.org. Please submit a resume and cover letter through our online application. Professional references may be requested during the selection process.
The hiring salary is $130,100 – $155,000 with competitive benefits (Pay Grade 20). Ceres offers fantastic benefits including opportunities for hybrid and remote work; 80%, 82% or 85% (depending on your coverage election) employer paid health insurance and 85% employer paid dental insurance; a 403(b) retirement plan with a generous match that starts on day one; generous allowances for commuter and work from home expenses; flexible spending accounts to set aside money on a pre-tax basis for eligible expenses; 10 holidays, generous vacation, and additional paid time off including week-long summer and winter breaks, summer Fridays, and sick, personal, and parental leave.
Ceres Culture
Everyone has a role to play in the movement towards a more just and sustainable world.
At Ceres, we are committed to intentionally and carefully curating, engaging, and retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce. We endeavor to create a supportive environment that sparks innovation, fosters respect, and allows Ceres employees, in all roles at all levels, to come together equally to be fulfilled, successful, and to thrive.
Ceres is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, and we do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any factors prohibited by applicable law.
If you have questions related to the above statement or need a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact our ADA Coordinator at ADArequest@ceres.org. Please note, this email address is for ADA inquiries only.
To Apply
We encourage all applicants to review our website to familiarize themselves with Ceres before applying: www.ceres.org. Please submit a resume and cover letter through our online application. Professional references may be requested during the selection process.
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