Energy and Resilience Strategist

Career Opportunities with Hagerty Consulting Inc

Helping Clients Prepare for, Respond to, and Recover from Disasters

Hagerty Consulting, Inc. (Hagerty) is the nation's leading emergency management and homeland security consulting firm. Known for its public spirit, innovative thinking, problem-solving, and exceptional people, Hagerty is sought after to work on some of the largest and most complex crisis and emergency management issues. We serve our clients across the nation to enhance their preparedness programs; create more resilient and sustainable communities;

provide innovative solutions to enhance their response; and obtain and manage grants and loans to support their recovery.

The Energy and Resilience Strategist will contribute to helping our clients navigate community energy resilience priorities and projects and how federal, state, and other grant funds may be used to fund priorities and projects. A successful candidate will support complex client delivery teams of internal and external stakeholders at the intersection of energy, resilience, federal funding, and grant writing. This is a proposal-based contract position
; engagement is contingent upon successful contract award. This position is open to Independent Contractors (1099) only at this time; as such, a valid Employer Identification Number (EIN) will be required in order to be considered for this opportunity. This opportunity is open to individuals living in Oregon, as the position is expected to be remotely based with client travel, within Oregon, involved as needed.

• Collaborate with clients to design and deliver solutions to achieve strategic priorities for resilience and climate initiatives.
• Conduct resilience and climate-related risk and opportunity assessments.
• Research and benchmark industry-wide resilience and climate programs and initiatives.
• Document community priorities, vulnerabilities, critical facilities, existing or potential energy resilience hubs, clean energy opportunities and recommended implementation pathways in an energy resilience plan or planning document.
• Support communities in identifying and prioritizing locations for potential microgrids, critical facility resilience projects and resilience hubs that improve community preparedness and resilience to natural disasters and long‑term energy disruptions.
• Support and guide communities as they work to identify critical facilities and energy resilience hub sites, facilitate community discussions on site prioritization, support interpretation of relevant data and mapping tools, and translate insights into decisions about priority sites and projects.
• Assist clients in advancing prioritized energy resilience concepts into feasibility or other project‑development activities.
• Coordinate and support communities through microgrid screenings, energy resilience hub concept development, utility considerations, site‑readiness review, project‑development sequencing and technical assistance.
• Facilitate discussions with community partners on technical analyses, project concepts, and key considerations to support informed decision‑making and project advancement.

• Minimum of five (5) years of professional consulting, government, and/or non‑profit experience focused on resilience, sustainability, climate, and/or environmental management.
• Bachelor’s degree in public administration, public policy, environmental science, emergency management, engineering, energy, sustainability, or a related field;
  Master’s Degree is preferred.
• Experience supporting communities with the development of energy resilience plans, energy resilience strategies, microgrid…