Energy Program Manager

BACKGROUND Climate change is the single greatest challenge humanity has ever faced, threatening water and food security, health, livelihoods, and the safety of billions of people together with drastic negative impact on global ecosystem balance. The City of Cleveland’s Mayor’s Office of Sustainability & Climate Justice seeks to enhance their climate ambitions under the Paris Agreement, with focus on greater emissions reduction and resilience building.

The next phases of the City of Cleveland’s Climate Action Plan update will focus on climate advocacy and long-term planning to ensure inclusive climate action at the speed and scale required to keep global temperature below 1.5°C. Achieving the carbon neutrality in the second half of the century by all countries is a crucial requirement set by the Paris Agreement to avoid the irreversible global climate change.

Realization of this goal involves work on local, regional, national, and global levels, as well as participation of all relevant stakeholders – governments, business, non-profit organizations, community members. The path to carbon neutrality should be just and leave no one behind, while empowering women, youth, black, indigenous and people of color, and vulnerable groups of population.

Typical duties performed, include, but are not limited to oversight of daily operations to ensure alignment with departmental objectives and organizational priorities. Dependent upon service area, may manage and direct staff to maintain efficient workflows, ensuring productivity and high-quality outcomes. Develop, implement, and evaluate operational strategies, procedures, and best practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Monitor performance metrics and identify opportunities for process improvement.

Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams to support departmental initiatives. Perform other job-related duties as required.

Bachelor’s degree required. Substitution:
Two (2) years of any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may substitute for each year of college education lacking. Six (6) years of full-time management experience required. Four (4) years of demonstrated leadership experience. Strong critical thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to identify process inefficiencies and implement effective solutions. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Valid State of Ohio Driver’s License required.

The purpose of this position is to provide practical management strategies for energy use, cost savings, building performance, and energy project implementation using energy data management, current climate action plans and decarbonization principles to guide this work. This position will also provide strategic leadership and support for the transformation of energy systems used by the City of Cleveland and by the broader commercial, industrial and residential community to be clean, renewable, equitable and cost effective.

These solutions will help achieve established and regularly updated Cleveland Climate Action Plan goals for both city operations and the community.

• Identify opportunities and support implementation of programs and projects that improve energy efficiency and develop renewable and clean energy resources for the City of Cleveland. This includes actively increasing awareness of the main principles of energy efficiency, energy conservation and decarbonized energy systems transformation, proposing programs and projects that address energy issues facing the city and community, supporting project and program implementation and collaboratively troubleshooting unexpected challenges.
• Understand and apply to daily work,…