NDN Seeks Electricity 2.0 Staff Director/Project Coordinator

Submitted by Jake Berliner on 3/8/10

NDN and the New Policy Institute seek a Washington, DC based Staff Director/Project Coordinator to help launch and manage our Electricity 2.0 Project.

Electricity 2.0 is a vision for an open, connected, modernized electricity network capable of allowing the innovation necessary to foster a clean technology and renewable energy revolution. We are seeking a Project Coordinator who shares this cutting edge vision and is committed to playing a key role in launching a multi-year campaign to make it a reality.

Responsibilities include:

Overall in-house coordination of the Electricity 2.0 project

Providing key operational and logistical support to the Electricity 2.0 Chairman, Senior Fellow, and other principals;

Helping to represent the project and vision to Washington DC stakeholders, Congress and the Administration through advocacy, arranging meetings, designing and executing events, and other outreach;

Performing ongoing outreach to and communication with project partners, regional stakeholders, and Electricity 2.0 evangelists;

Managing a communications strategy that includes traditional press, new media, and coordinating public speaking opportunities for project principals;

Producing, coordinating, and contributing substantively to written content and research, including white papers, blogs, essays and op-eds on the subject of Electricity 2.0 and related topics;

Producing and coordinating the production and promotion of operational content, including fundraising proposals, press releases, and marketing materials;