Company description

Energy transition, the move from legacy to sustainable, resilient, and smart energy, is here to stay. SGIN is a national organization with big aspirations. It has a mandate to support its members on their journey to enable a clean energy future in a managed approach. SGIN is evolving to provide education, technical support, trade support, program design services and conferences to enable its members.

Why work with us:

By joining SGIN you will be in on the ground floor of shaping an organization that aspires to grow the knowledge of the stakeholders in the sector, enable smart energy systems of systems to address real world energy challenges, and to advocate to government and non-government stakeholders for the implementation of smart energy solutions. Critical to our success is that every team member aligns with our values and how we work:

• Strive to learn.
• Strive to get the job done by helping each other and asking for help.
• Make mistakes, please, and learn from them.
• Take transparent, non-partisan, honest, fact-based perspectives.
• Treat others with respect, always.
• Take personal ownership of problems and solutions.
• If you are an expert, help others. If you are not an expert, help others.
• Identify problems and implement solutions.
• Be slow to make assumptions, fast to take action, and faster to ask questions when you don’t know the answer – we are all learning what the energy transition looks like.
• Always strive to engage with our broad stakeholder base – make friends.

Sound like you? If you have the skills, knowledge, and align with our values, we offer an environment that embraces diversity and rewards innovation with competitive pay and rewarding work.

This role is a national role, initially focused on New Brunswick. The primary responsibility of this role will be to manage engagements with the stakeholders in the energy transition ecosystem. This role is one of engagement – outwardly engaging stakeholders, members, clients to drive SGIN services and programs, projects forward and successful candidates will demonstrate the needed skills and experience for this work.

The Energy Engagement Lead works with the other staff, and technical experts, to drive stakeholder engagement activities. This includes, for example, developing stakeholder engagement plans, developing targeted messaging plans and content, public speaking, facilitating group workshops, private dialogues with leaders. The applicant is expected to have a basic understanding of the electricity and energy sector and a strong stakeholder relationship experience. Being an independent leader is a critical element of this role.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver on the stakeholder engagement needs of the various SGIN projects and programs.
• Develop stakeholder engagement plans.
• Develop targeted messaging plans and content.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for aspects of SGIN’s outreach programs and specific projects.
• The candidate would support the existing member services lead in maintaining member logs, providing facilitation services for specific project workshops under the guidance of the project leads and support the design and delivery of SGIN events through recruitment, sponsorship and event program delivery. These events are both domestic and international in scope.
• The candidate will also support the continuous engagement of clean energy benchmark / scorecard development throughout Canada leveraging SGIN’s Smart Energy Benchmark framework.

Requirements:

• No more than 30 years of age at the start of the internship;
• Graduated from a post-secondary program;
• A Canadian citizen, Permanent Resident, or person who has been granted Refugee status in Canada;
• Not in receipt of Employment Insurance (EI) during the internship
• A basic understanding of the aspects of electricity generation, distribution and future electricity demands.
• Strong skills in creating high quality documentation deliverables.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Proven stakeholder engagement skills; experience leading large group client or stakeholder meetings, obtaining client engagement and consensus. Formal group facilitation techniques will be needed.
• Effective time management.
• Project management skills.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of the energy ecosystem in Canada would be an asset.
• Degree or Diploma combined with related experience.
• A basic understanding how to engage people, establish relations.
• Strong skills in creating high quality documentation deliverables, excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Experience leading large group client or stakeholder meetings, obtaining client engagement and consensus. Formal group facilitation techniques will be needed.
• Time management and basic Project Management skills.
• French as a second language would be an asset.
• Must be eligible to work for any employer in Canada.
• Willingness for occasional travel.

If you are ready to make the right move, we invite you to join us and apply by sending your cover letter and CV to info@sgin.ca. Deadline to apply is: July 4th at 5:00pm EDT.

This is a 7-month funding position through the Science Horizons Internship Program is funded through Environment and Climate Change Canada. All applicants are required to also register in the Science Horizons / Horizons Sciences: https://cleanfoundation.ca/workforce-development/science-horizons/science-horizons-intern-registration/

We thank all applicants for your interest in Smart Grid Innovation Network. While we appreciate all applications we receive, we advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted. By submitting personal information SGIN or its agents you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of such information for the purpose of conducting SGIN internal business.

Reference ID: SGIN – Eng -202506