Energy Transition Intern

About The Wilderness Society

The Wilderness Society is a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting America’s wild places since 1935. Our mission is to unite people to protect America’s wild places. Through science, advocacy, and partnerships with communities and policymakers, we champion the protection of wilderness, national parks, forests, and other public lands that provide clean air and water, wildlife habitat, and the freedom to connect with nature. For more information, visit www.wilderness.org. 

Internship Overview 

The main objective of the Intern, Energy Transition, is to support the Energy & Mining Team’s just transition policy and advocacy goals. This support may include specific priority projects related to our energy transition work and more general projects that support the team’s broader oil and gas work. This position supports TWS’s efforts to realize a just transition away from reliance on industrial natural resource extraction by supporting a data-driven approach to more effectively brand and describe our decoupling work. This position will impact the Energy & Mining Team’s energy transition policy and advocacy goals by supporting efforts to better articulate and describe our “decoupling” policy platform--or the replacement of volatile annual direct federal payments from coal, oil, and gas extraction with a new model to capture and save fossil fuel revenue and provide permanent distributions directly to communities.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 

• Support the energy and mining team’s priorities related to both energy transition and oil and gas issues more broadly. 
• Plan and prepare focus groups by recruiting participants from a preselected target audience, selecting a platform either online or in person, and preparing materials.
• Support efforts to ensure recording and reporting systems are in place and working effectively. Support focus group analysis and reporting by reviewing transcripts, notes, and recordings, and summarizing findings.
• Collaborate with Just Transition Manager on updating and drafting written materials, including white papers, fact sheets, or other advocacy products as needed to reflect the findings of the focus groups. 
• Support coalition efforts to build support for just transition policies by tracking and coordinating coalition activities, building out lists of impacted groups for outreach, and developing effective messengers.
• Adhere to all policies and procedures set forth by TWS (including, but not limited to, finance, human resources, and legal) to maintain a compliant and efficient work environment. 
• Perform other duties as assigned 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Currently enrolled in or a recent graduate (within 2 years) of an accredited college or university.
• Exemplary skills in written, online, and oral communication, including comfortable making phone calls, including cold calls, if needed. 
• Knowledgeable and effective at navigating, sharing, and problem-solving from collaborative online platforms such as Zoom or Teams.
• Some experience organizing or leading focus groups or other deep experience with qualitative research methods. 
• Experience in describing, analyzing, and summarizing qualitative research findings to produce high-quality written materials.  
• Organized, detail-oriented, and experienced at managing materials and files in a complex project.  
• Able to work to deadlines, take initiative, and engage in creative problem-solving with minimal supervision when necessary. 

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of this position and it is not intended to be an exhaustive list of experience, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.

This is a remote position eligible in the following states: DC, ME, CT, VA, MD, NY, SC, NC, TX, WI, MT, ID, WY, CA, WA, NM, AZ, MT, AK.   The compensation for this position is $18/hour (unless higher minimum wage in location).  To apply, please submit resume and cover letter by March 15th.   

TWS is an equal opportunity employer and actively works to ensure fair treatment of our employees and constituents across culture, socioeconomic status, race, marital or family situation, gender, age, ethnicity, religious beliefs, physical ability, veteran status or sexual orientation. 

As an organization, we aspire to being inclusive in the work that we do, and in the kind of organization we are.  Internally, this means working as a team that listens to different points of view, recognizes the contributions of every employee and empowers each employee to bring their whole selves to work every day. Externally, this means ensuring that public lands are inclusive and welcoming, so that our shared wildlands can help people and nature to thrive.  We are committed to equity throughout our work, which we define as our commitment to realizing the promise of our public lands and ensuring that all can share in their universal benefits.

To learn more about our commitment, please see http://wilderness.org/our-commitment-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-wilderness-society 

Pursuant to applicable fair chance laws, TWS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

TWS complies with federal and state disability laws and is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. If you require accommodation to complete the application process or to perform the essential functions of the position, please contact careers@tws.org.  TWS only accepts resumes submitted for positions that are currently open. Unsolicited resumes or resumes for posted positions that are not submitted via the online application process (where applicable), will not be reviewed or retained.