Policy Analyst - Clean Energy and Healthy Homes Campaign

Location: San Francisco Bay Area preferred

Length of Contract: Half-time (20 hours/week), July 2025 - December 2025 (6 months)


About the organization: 
The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 18,000 members across California. ACCE is dedicated to raising the voices of everyday Californians, neighborhood by neighborhood, to fight for the policies and programs we need to improve our communities. 

The Contra Costa chapter of ACCE has a long history of organizing community members in the neighborhood of Richmond. We fight for tenants rights and housing justice, electing progressive governance, and public safety. 

ACCE is leading a campaign called The Richmond Clean Energy and Healthy Homes Project. The project vision is to make the City of Richmond a model for dignified, clean, green healthy homes— all while creating good local union jobs, protecting tenants and increasing our collective power.

ACCE Contra Costa is working with the City of Richmond and partners to fully electrify 2-4 neighborhood blocks at no cost to residents. Homes and apartments will receive energy efficiency improvements, rooftop solar and storage, and efficient electric appliances, like electric heating systems and induction stoves, reducing emissions and indoor air pollutants for improved resident health. This project prioritizes low-income and working-class communities, particularly Black and Brown neighborhoods, ensuring they are not left behind in the shift to clean energy and have improved indoor and outdoor air quality.

The Richmond Clean Energy and Healthy Homes Project seeks a part-time Policy Analyst for 6 months to lead the project to success. The Policy Analyst is responsible for managing all ongoing processes to put the campaign on the path for achieving neighborhood electrification of 2-4 blocks in Richmond in three years.

Responsibilities include:

1. Campaign Management and Strategy

• Supports the Richmond Clean Energy and Healthy Homes Campaign, responsible for delivering on overall campaign objectives and the day-to-day workflow

• Works closely with ACCE staff and core partners to develop and implement a campaign plan

• Facilitates and prepares team meetings and other administrative tasks 

• Strategizes and advocates for funding, partnership, technical, and strategic elements needed for the success of the project

• Researches and analyzes policy reform, technical, and financial implementation opportunities to advance campaign goals

• Participates in campaign research, framing and messaging, including collaborating on talking points, press releases, reports and social media

• Develops campaign communications and organizing materials including training, handouts, simple digital graphics and email communications.

2. Partnerships

• Convenes core partner meetings and activities, lead weekly check-ins and facilitate periodic campaign strategic planning

• Represents ACCE members and staff in meetings with the City of Richmond, the utilities, and other stakeholders

• Maintains and creates new relationships with relevant stakeholders, including in organized labor, environmental justice organizations, elected officials, governmental staff and regulatory bodies, technical assistance providers, utilities, and more.

3. Grassroots Organizing:

• Participates in identifying and developing community power-building relationships with a broad leadership base of grassroots parent groups, local elected leaders, key stakeholders in the climate justice space, faith-based institutions, labor unions and social/economic justice advocates

• Works with organizers to support ACCE’s field and organizing efforts with members and residents of the targeted blocks, including data analysis, supporting community meetings, and co-planning outreach events with the organizing lead
   

Skills and Qualifications:

• At least two years’ experience running or managing campaigns for programs

• Exceptional campaign planning and facilitation skills

• Passionate about environmental justice, climate justice, and has knowledge of residential building decarbonization

• Knowledge of the stakeholder and political landscape of climate policy in the Bay Area and California 

• Demonstrated experience managing diverse coalitions and campaigns for policy and/or programmatic wins

• Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, organize, and meet deadlines

• Ability to take initiative

• Good analytical, verbal, and written communication skills

• Team player and able to work effectively with diverse staff, leaders, partners, and the general public

• Able to work with leaders across race, class, and gender to align different interests toward the common goal of building community power to win progressive reforms

• Has some understanding of the intersection between race, class, and gender’s effect on socioeconomic policy

• Excitement about the vision and mission of ACCE and the campaign, bringing a curious and open spirit with eagerness to learn.

TIME AND PAY 

• $4000 month for 20 hours/week, starting estimated July 1st, 2025.

• The selected applicant will be a contractor of the ACCE Institute, and work closely with Building Power Resource Center for campaign support.

• The contractor must be located in the United States and have valid work authorization (including international students who can participate through valid CPT or OPT programs)- we are not able to support work visas. 
   

TO APPLY: Please submit a resume and respond to this question below by May 31st. We expect to make decisions by mid-June. 

This search is being supported by NRG Consulting Group. Please reach out to us at [email protected] with any questions.