Postgraduate Opportunity with the DOE Federal Energy Management Program

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency (EE) and its Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) are looking to engage an ORISE participant to assist with executing the Data Center Partnership of the Better Buildings (BB).   The Better Buildings is a national initiative that calls on leading CEOs and executives of U.S. companies, developers, universities, school districts, and Federal, state, and local governments to make significant improvements in energy efficiency across their operations. The Data Center Challenge Partners of the Better Buildings pledge to improve the energy performance of their portfolio by 20% or better over a 10 year period or shorter.  The Data Center Accelerator Partners pledge to a 25% improvement in energy efficiency within 5 years.  For additional information about visit: http://energy.gov/eere/efficiency/buildings.

The project assignment includes but are not limited to the following:

General

Assist with actively marketing, recruiting, and managing the participation of private and Federal organizations in the Data Center Partnerships of the Better Buildings.

Project Management

  • Assist with activities such as partnership support, technical team coordination and quality control, data collection, program document maintenance/refinement, Better Buildings web structure and content coordination and reviews, and program supporting documents.
  • Actively assist with managing the Data Center sector in the BB Program including integration and coordination with other BB sector leads/director in weekly meetings, BB public relations and communications responses/coordination, BB Summit planning/contribution, BB Summit session speaker recruiting, and BB Summit session content and delivery management.
  • Assist with developing briefings and communications regarding project activities, needs, and status to the BB program and FEMP executives, technical partner organizations, and program support contractors.
  • Assist with developing and maintaining tools for the reporting/tracking of overall project development, recruiting, and partner engagement activities and status.

Outreach and Messaging

Assist with capturing the progress, solutions to challenges and successes of the program and Data Center partners to the larger community of data center owners, stakeholders, and the public.  In coordination with the BB public relations and communication team engage trade groups, utility companies, and other stakeholders to broadcast the “good news”.  Project maintenance activities including data collection, program document maintenance/refinement, BBC web structure and content, and program supporting document development/management.

Actively participate and manage the Data Center sector in the BB Program including integration and coordination with other BB sector leads/director in weekly meetings, BB public relations and communications responses/coordinator, BB Summit planning/contribution, BB Summit sessions speaker recruiting, and BB Summit session content and delivery management.

Recruiting:

Assist in recruiting activities including outreach conference scheduling/registration, conference attendance/presentations.  Assist with targeting partner identification, partner recruiting outreach, partner recruiting follow up (e-mail/phone), partner closing, and web inquiry responses.

Participant Support:

Assist with onboarding activities including kick off call scheduling and kick off calls, Web profile reviews, and baseline performance data collection/refinement management.

Assist in partner relationship activities including follow up calls to scope out support needs, scope out partner needs with support teams, track and manage delivery of support to partners, and quarterly Partner calls.

This appointment is located in Washington, D.C.

Participant Benefits

The selected candidate will receive a stipend as support for living and other expenses during this appointment. Stipend rates are determined by DOE officials and are based on the candidate’s academic and professional background. The number of years of experience after the receipt of the degree will be a consideration as well. The candidate may also be eligible to receive a health insurance allowance and reimbursement for travel expenses. This appointment is for one year and may be extended in increments of up to one year, contingent upon project needs and funding availability. The maximum length of time a participant can spend in the ORISE program is five years from his/her initial start date.

Nature of the Appointment

Participants will not enter into an employee/employer relationship with ORISE, ORAU, the DOE, or any other office or agency. Instead, the participant will be affiliated with ORISE for the administration of the appointment through the ORISE appointment letter and Terms of Appointment.

ORAU will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, mental or physical disability, covered veteran’s status, or genetic information.

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