The Greenlining Institute: Energy Equity Fellow

Energy Equity Fellow

The Greenlining Institute envisions a future where communities of color can build wealth, live in healthy places filled with economic opportunity and are ready to meet the challenges posed by climate change. With equity practice and systems change guiding us, we incubate and advocate for new ideas and build with diverse communities and partners to ensure that race is never a barrier to opportunity.

The Greenlining Institute's Leadership Academy Fellowship is an 11-month training and experiential learning program for early career leaders seeking to gain hands-on public policy experience and invest in their personal and professional growth. Fellows are integrated into one of Greenlining's policy teams to develop, plan, and implement the organization's policy and advocacy efforts while they simultaneously work with the Leadership Academy to focus on the skills to support their personal growth and deepen their leadership perspective.

We're looking for individuals who have a strong commitment to racial equity and social justice for communities of color and can demonstrate a sincere interest in building themselves into true race equity leaders. Our offices are based in Oakland, CA and participants will be expected to attend in person throughout the program.

The Energy Equity Fellow works with our team to maximize the potential benefits from the state's transition away from fossil-fueled technologies for low-income and disadvantaged communities such as healthier conditions in households, decreases in indoor and outdoor air pollution, mitigating climate change, increasing access to beneficial clean-energy technologies, decreasing high energy burdens, supporting housing policies that preserve and promote housing affordability, and building a resilient workforce in the clean energy economy.

We work to build this future by focusing on energy affordability, equitable building decarbonization, clean energy sourcing and accessibility, and advancing an inclusive and resilient clean energy economy.

The Energy Equity Fellow will assist in advocacy efforts to shape and implement inclusive, equitable, affordable, and accessible clean energy policies, programs, and services for low-income communities of color at the state and federal level. The fellow will also contribute to developing thought leadership on key topics related to energy equity that center low-income communities of color by engaging in research, coalition building, tracking legislation and regulatory efforts and collaborating with key stakeholders, agencies, and decision-makers.

Major Areas of Responsibility

• Public Policy Development & Advocacy

  • Deepens and applies race equity lens to analyze and develop policy solutions that remove barriers for historically redlined communities

  • Participates in policy making activities to pass legislation or agency policies, including lobbying, giving public comment, or analyzing legislation.

  • Leads a substantive public policy assignment (research project, report development, landscape analysis, stakeholder relationship management, coalition management, etc.) to advance the team's advocacy objectives for the year

  • Develops, drafts, and publishes public policy writings including but not limited to policy memos, policy reports, research project, data collection, policy briefs, business memos, public comments, blog posts

  • Delivers oral presentations for internal and external forums including Greenlining's annual lobby day with Sacramento legislators/staffers, stakeholder convenings, Leadership Academy graduation

  • Facilitates meetings with community, government, and business leaders to drive our advocacy forward

• Leadership Development

  • Participates in all leadership development workshops to learn and apply a holistic (mind, body, spirit) and equitable approach to leadership

  • Learns unique leadership style, values, vision and purpose through self-reflection exercises, goal-setting activities and 1:1 coaching

  • Brings lived experience to cohort and organizational conversations to offer innovative ideas and diversity of perspective

  • Provides support to cohort members and engages in team-building activities to form strong…