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The William J. Clinton Foundation launched the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) in 2006 with the mission of applying the Foundation’s business-oriented approach to the fight against climate change in practical, measurable and significant ways. Through our Outdoor Lighting Program, CCI aims to help cities around the world improve the energy efficiency of street light systems and reduce carbon emissions. The OLP team works as pro bono consultants and advisors to cities around the world, including the C40 cities (www.c40cities.org), helping them to develop and implement large-scale energy efficiency street light retrofit projects that take advantage of new developments in outdoor lighting technology in order to maximize energy and operational savings.
Globally, street lighting is believed to account for 159 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity use per year, or more than the annual power produced by 36 power plants of 500-megawatt (MW) capacity. Reducing this consumption by 50 percent–an achievable goal–would eliminate almost 80 TWh of electricity consumption and over 40 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2)– the most prevalent greenhouse gas–emissions annually. For city governments, street lighting can constitute a significant portion of electricity costs and greenhouse gas emissions, ranging from 5 percent to more than 60 percent of a city government’s electricity bill, depending on the city’s size, the services it offers, and the efficiency of its street lighting system. Recent advancements in energy efficient street light technology have opened up new opportunities for municipalities and other government entities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and operating costs simultaneously while improving the quality of their street lighting system. CCI works with cities to support the intelligent planning and deployment of street lighting retrofit projects including, helping to build the business case through economic cost modeling and advising on project management, purchasing, financing, and technology.
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The Project Development Manager will be responsible for managing a portfolio of projects and providing direct support to CCI City Directors and government officials to implement large-scale outdoor lighting energy efficiency retrofit projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help build the emerging market for newer energy efficient lighting technologies.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Work with CCI City Directors and OLP staff to assess and develop large-scale, market transforming outdoor lighting retrofit projects
- Manage the development of projects from start to finish including, building detailed economic cost models, communicating results to city officials, providing information on outdoor lighting retrofit best-practices, and serving as general project manager and primary point of contact for all project relationships
- Prepare/make presentations to lighting engineers and city officials on the strategic and business opportunity for undertaking outdoor lighting retrofit projects
- Attend networking events, round tables, conferences, etc. where clear value to CCI’s Outdoor Lighting Program related efforts can be justified
- Develop ideas to further enhance CCI’s suite of tools and support services for cities
Position may be located in New York or Boston.
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We seek a candidate that is motivated by the immediate and imperative nature of the climate change mission and understands the business, health, environmental and national security related risks that climate change poses.
For this position, the candidate must have project management experience and possess a requisite level of familiarity with economic cost modeling. The Project Development Manager must be able to assess the potential for retrofit projects and work in an entrepreneurial manner to support these projects in order to move them from the concept stage to reality. Lastly, the Project Development Manager must be capable and confident in developing senior-level relationships with city officials and other organizations and must be able to represent CCI to industry and government partners.
- Minimum of 3 years experience at consulting firm or in project management role
- Advanced Excel-based modeling skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills—including ability to communicate the results of complicated cost models to a variety of audiences
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, set priorities and meet deadlines
- Background and comfort in working with senior management in a business and / or government capacityAbility to operate independently and work effectively with minimal supervision
- Willingness to travel as needed
- Fluency in English required (fluency in other languages a plus)
- A graduate degree in business administration preferred
- Familiarity with advanced outdoor lighting technologies—such as LED, Ceramic Metal Halide and Induction—a plus
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