About Silicon Valley Clean Energy

Formed in 2016, Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) is a public Community Choice Energy service provider serving approximately 270,000 residential and commercial customer accounts in thirteen Santa Clara County communities. SVCE's mission is to provide customers with renewable and carbon-free electricity at competitive rates, and further accelerate decarbonization through deployment of innovative local programs. Key program areas include: building electrification, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, battery storage and demand management programs. Since the organization's service launch in 2017, SVCE has provided clean to all residential and commercial energy customers in SVCE's member communities, carbon-free electricity. SVCE has saved its customers more than $90M and dedicated $84M to customer offers, programs and services. SVCE is a joint-powers agency governed by a Board of Directors comprised of an elected official from each of SVCE's thirteen member communities.

By providing reliable and responsive carbon-free electricity service at competitive rates, SVCE maintains a 96+% customer participation rate and a strong financial foundation. Access to carbon-free electricity has helped our communities take a major step in fighting climate change, reducing local emissions by more than 30% from a 2015 baseline. Yet supplying clean electricity is just the start. It is essential that SVCE continues to proactively engage with our customers and community stakeholders in the electrification journey - helping to inspire, educate, and enable action in transitioning from fossil fuels to clean electricity – in homes, buildings, and transportation.

The SVCE Culture

Achieving SVCE's ambitious and urgent mission requires a team capable of meeting the tremendous challenges embedded in these goals. SVCE develops and fosters a diverse and talented team that thrives in a dynamic and fast-changing environment. As such, at SVCE we recruit and retain smart, passionate, innovative, and collaborative employees. Company employees contribute, as a team and as individuals, to continuously building and supporting a culture of collaboration and trust. SVCE employees encourage creativity and the free flow of ideas to spur innovation. The workplace environment is adaptable, and technology enabled to drive innovative solutions. SVCE emphasizes focus and prioritization across departments to achieve quality, rather than simply quantity of output. SVCE provides a rewarding workplace experience where productivity can be maintained across a variety of work environments. SVCE provides opportunities for growth, engagement, and support professional and personal development. SVCE offers opportunities that position their people, as well as SVCE, for success.

More information can be found at: www.svcleanenergy.org

About the role

Silicon Valley Clean Energy's Customer Success Team is seeking a Electric Project Cost Analyst Intern to answer key questions around the costs our customers incur as they electrify their homes and the types of equipment installed. The Analyst Intern will dive into residential electrification project data to generate an accurate and detailed picture of costs, cost drivers, and breakdowns of equipment characteristics, such as efficiency or system size. Working primarily work with SVCE's Homes Rebates program data, including contractor invoices and rebate applications, the Analyst Intern is also expected to leverage manufacturer product databases, public permit data, market research reports, tax assessor data, and more to support their analyses.

Key research objectives for the Analyst Intern include:

• Calculate average project cost data & identify key cost variables
• Identify trends in project & permit costs 
• Provide recommendations for standard project reporting (costs, equipment characteristics, etc.) across SVCE programs 
• Identify opportunities for equipment requirements or new forms of program support 

The Data Analyst will coordinate closely with multiple SVCE program managers to understand the data available and identify the research questions most helpful to support SVCE initiatives.

*Location: this is a hybrid role in Sunnyvale, CA.

Qualifications

Skills

• Medium data management (hundreds to thousands of data records) skills & working with categorical data
• Analysis of invoice data, including itemized costs and equipment characteristics
• Leveraging data across multiple sources
• Thorough documentation of data sources and analysis methodologies 
• Curiosity while generating actionable insights & recommendations from data analyses
• Passion for climate change, clean-energy, and decarbonization mission
• Any prior experience working in research, non-profit, government, utility, or start-up spaces
• Familiarity with residential building electrification technologies, such as heat pump space heating and cooling systems, induction cooking appliances, etc.
• Self-directed independent worker and comfortable operating in a dynamic, fast-paced start-up environment
• Ability to think creatively and critically while approaching data-driven analyses
• Strong organization skills and ability to be agile and nimble to evolving work products and deadlines
• Strives to achieve excellent competency in SVCE's core competences – collaboration, effectiveness, continuous learning, and stakeholder service
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including distilling complex information in a simple and understandable manner

Education

• Rising senior, post-graduate, or graduate student in a relevant quantitative field such as:
• • Engineering
  • Math
  • Science
  • Economics
  • or related field.
• Current students should be in good academic standing.

Systems

• Salesforce experience preferred

Physical and Working Conditions

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Environment: Work is performed in a typical office setting with exposure to computer screens and at public events (fairs, meeting rooms, farmers' markets, etc.) with moderate noise and will require some evening and weekend work. The noise level in the work environment is usually typical of an office environment and public events.

Physical: While performing the duties of this class, employees are regularly required to sit, walk, and stand; talk or hear, in person and by telephone; reach with hands and arms. Employees are occasionally required to walk, and stand for prolonged periods; stoop, bend, kneel and twist; and may lift up to twenty pounds. Employees must be able to communicate in person, in writing, and by telephone with Board members, management, co-workers, vendors, consultants, and with the public in face-to-face, one-on one, and group settings.

Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents; and operate assigned equipment.

Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.

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The pay range for this role is:

$25 - 30 per hour (US)

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