Senior Consultant of Energy and Climate Equity

• Are you passionate about tackling global issues related to energy, climate and environmental justice, and human rights?
• Are you excited about the opportunities created by the energy transition to equitably decarbonize our economy?
• Are you enthusiastic about supporting an equitable and just energy transition?
• Are you looking for an opportunity to collaborate with a team of engaged, creative colleagues to deliver industry-leading solutions?

DNV is growing its equity-related service offering to support strong demand from clients seeking solutions and integrated services to maximize the benefits of the clean energy transition for traditionally marginalized and underserved customers.

We are seeking a Senior Consultant of Energy and Climate Equity with experience transforming societal risk into equitable market opportunities to join our Markets & Risk team in North America.

This position includes responsibility for supporting business development, project management and providing subject matter expertise on a range of initiatives and projects aimed at advancing an equitable energy transition through transformative community and interested parties engagement.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with client-facing experience in energy, climate change, equity, and / or risk assurance who is seeking a role that involves strategic, big picture thinking, collaboration, and an interdisciplinary approach to solving complex challenges.

This role is based at our DNV office in Oakland, CA, presenting a dynamic hybrid schedule where employees will typically spend three (3) days per week working from either a DNV office or client location / site.

Further details regarding role-specific requirements will be shared during the interview process.

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with DNV’s Equity Services team to develop, refine, and fulfill the Markets & Risk team’s objective of providing consulting services that measure and help clients fulfill their energy equity goals and to identify areas of growth in this space and develop service offerings.
• Support project-based teams in the delivery of studies and analyses by acting as a subject matter expert and leader. This can include project management, client interaction, development of proposals or work plans, leadership on equity best practices, data collection, data analysis, and preparation of deliverables and presentation of results.
• Drive and manage community and interested parties engagement processes with one or more diverse groups, including energy, climate and environmental justice community-based organizations, environmental advocates, statutory or regulatory bodies, infrastructure developers, utilities, and other key groups.

This includes development and delivery of successful engagement plans, preparing and executing communications, arranging and managing community meetings and workshops, and preparing reports and presentations of findings and recommendations.

Conduct primary research including in-depth interviewing, semi-structured interviewing, ethnographic research, facilitating focus groups or workshops, and telephone or web-based surveys.

Perform secondary research, including literature reviews, internet research, document review and database review.

• Provide insights and lead and / or support research and analyses focused on addressing climate and equity-related risks including evaluation of the distribution of benefits from utility-sponsored programs, non-energy impact assessments, geospatial analyses, socio-economic analyses, climate risk planning, and community benefit plans.
• Collaborate with DNV teams across practice areas, North America and globally (Renewables Advisory, Power System Advisory, Storage and Grid Edge Services, and ESG Services) that represent the entire energy delivery and decarbonization value chains to develop creative approaches that help customers advance equitable access to the benefits of decarbonized energy systems, increase procedural (and other dimensions of) equity, and develop community benefits plans.
• Talk to clients and potential clients about their organizations’ goals and needs around decarbonization and equity. Interpret customers’ problems to be solved and questions to be addressed and convert into value-added opportunities.
• Interact with compassion, build and maintain interpersonal relationships, strengthen the team through guidance and encouragement to peers, and collaborate with team members and external stakeholders to share knowledge and best practices
• Ensure all work products are high quality, effective, timely, and accessible to diverse stakeholder groups while proactively leveraging DNV’s wide and deep bench of analysts and consultants to ensure high standards of accuracy
• Serve as thought leader and ambassador representing DNV at conferences and other public speaking venues. Proactively market DNV’s equity-related services.
• Develop thought leadership pieces providing actionable insight that energy, health, and community development interested parties can leverage to develop holistic solutions for at-risk customers
• Generous paid time off (vacation, sick days, company holidays, personal days)
• Multiple Medical and Dental benefit plans to choose from, Vision benefits
• Spending accounts FSA, Dependent Care, Commuter Benefits, company-seeded HSA
• Employer-paid, therapist-led, virtual care services through Talkspace
• 401(k) with company match
• Company provided life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability benefits
• Education reimbursement program
• Flexible work schedule with hybrid / remote opportunities
• Charitable Matched Giving and Volunteer Rewards through our Impact Program
• Volunteer time off (VTO) paid by the company
• Career advancement opportunities

Benefits vary based on position, tenure, location, and employee election

How We Do It

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DNV is a proud equal-opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, or business need, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

DNV is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability.

US applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact the North America Recruitment Department Information received relating to accommodations will be addressed confidentially.

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As required by the Pay Transparency laws in Colorado, New York City, California, Washington, and Connecticut, DNV provides a reasonable compensation range for roles that may be hired in those locations.

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors, including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.

For the states of Colorado, New York City, NY, California, Washington, and Connecticut only, the range of starting pay for this role is $105,000- $150,000USD

What is Required

• Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree or equivalent experience with emphasis in a relevant discipline (. social, political or environmental science, urban studies, public policy, environmental justice policy, applied and behavioral economics) preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated work experience, or equivalent, in social, energy, climate and / or environmental equity and justice.

Experience in the energy sector is preferred, public health and / or community development is a plus.

• Minimum 2 years of project management, stakeholder engagement, and / or business development experience or a similar project leadership role is required
• Demonstrated understanding of the risks of energy system decarbonization and climate change on at-risk communities required
• Willingness to undertake new and exciting activities and think creatively to find a solution to a problem. An interest in using data and research to tell a story.
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact across a broad range of audiences and technical backgrounds including internal and external clients, stakeholders, and regulatory agencies.
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively to complete multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills; comfortable communicating with team members with different cultural backgrounds and experience.

Proficiency in Spanish or other language is a plus

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