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About the Role
Base is seeking a specialist to build and manage relationships with local governments and regulators nationwide. This role involves being the primary contact for mayors, city councils, and local stakeholders, demonstrating how Base's products address community needs. It requires developing engagement strategies, constructing coalitions, and managing multi-city relationships.
Responsibilities
- Own Base’s local-government affairs strategy across assigned regions and markets.
- Identify priority cities and municipalities.
- Build relationships with mayors and city officials.
- Create a pipeline of opportunities for Base to support local infrastructure and economic goals.
- Represent Base as the primary point of contact with local governments.
- Attend city council meetings, municipal forums, and community events.
- Develop materials and briefings that position Base as a credible partner for energy reliability and affordability, and grid modernization.
- Identify policy barriers or opportunities at the local level (zoning, permitting, incentive programs, procurement policies).
- Recommend solutions that enable Base to operate effectively.
- Execute on recommendations.
- Travel regularly across assigned states to meet with local leaders.
- Understand local challenges firsthand.
- Present Base’s solutions in plain language.
- Develop briefing materials, one-pagers, and pitch decks tailored to municipal audiences.
- Translate Base’s technical products and capabilities into terms that resonate with mayors, council members, and everyday constituents.
- Explain why distributed batteries matter for their communities.
- Develop and pitch coalition strategies that connect local government priorities with Base’s products.
- Identify and recruit local partners—community organizations, business groups, labor unions, environmental advocates—to amplify support.
- Build and maintain a rigorous tracking system for relationships, commitments, and follow-ups.
- Manage contact information, conversation histories, and next steps.
Requirements
- 2-3 years of experience in local government relations, community organizing, public affairs, or campaign work with a track record of building relationships and winning support for initiatives.
- Existing relationships with mayors, city officials, or local stakeholders, or demonstrated ability to quickly build trust with local leaders and community figures.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to explain complex products to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to write clear and persuasive materials for local government.
- Ability to speak confidently in front of city councils and community gatherings.
- Comfort with ambiguity and strong project-management discipline.
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Ability to stay organized across dozens of relationships without an extensive support system.
- Ability to prioritize effectively in a fast-moving environment.
- Self-starter instincts and genuine interest in understanding communities.
- Curiosity about local economies, politics, and what matters to people in different regions.
- Comfort traveling frequently to different cities and states.
- Strong interpersonal skills and strategic thinking.
- Ability to read a room, build coalitions, find common ground, and be an effective face for Base in diverse local contexts.
- Comfort with systems and data.
- Ability to build and maintain your own tracking tools to manage relationships, keep notes on conversations, and ensure follow-through.
Skills
- Local government relations
- Community organizing
- Public affairs
- Campaign work
- Relationship building
- Winning support for initiatives
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Economic development
- Building trust with local leaders
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Explaining complex products to non-technical audiences
- Writing persuasive materials
- Public speaking
- Project management
- Managing multiple workstreams
- Organization
- Prioritization
- Community understanding
- Interpersonal skills
- Strategic thinking
- Coalition building
- Systems and data management
- Tracking relationships
Location
- Nationwide
Work Type
- In-person
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2-3 years
About the Company
- Base is America’s next-generation power company.
- We’re rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization–electricity–by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries that is transforming today’s fragile, centralized grid into a resilient and abundant system.
- We are engineers, operators, and creatives solving some of the most complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.