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About the Role
Solar One's Green Workforce program trains students in hard skills for the clean energy sector. This role involves delivering workforce development courses focused on energy efficiency, renewables, construction, and building trades through hands-on, interactive formats. The Instructor will initially co-teach and eventually lead programs for adults, reporting to the Manager of Green Workforce Training.
Responsibilities
- Deliver Solar One training programs including green construction, green building operations and maintenance, solar PV installation, and HVAC maintenance and repair.
- Serve as the primary instructor for offsite programming, including environmental workshops and community solar workforce development programs.
- Track and record classroom activities, attendance, grades, and student feedback in Salesforce.
- Adapt to a changing schedule, including potentially serving as a substitute instructor.
Requirements
- At least three years of field and/or teaching experience in green construction, green building operations and maintenance, solar PV installation, or HVAC maintenance and repair.
- Ability to learn new curriculum independently and conduct ongoing research in subject matter areas.
- Strong background and content knowledge in the broader clean energy sector with at least eight years of experience in construction basics, energy efficiency building maintenance, multifamily residential and commercial energy auditing, electrical retrofitting, or solar PV.
- Aptitude to continually learn new material and independently upskill to stay current with technological trends and training methodology.
- Interest and passion in teaching about sustainability, energy efficiency, and renewable technologies to underserved communities.
- Ability to work independently and problem-solve in an unsupervised setting.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Google Suite products.
- Working knowledge of or ability to learn Salesforce for tracking student data.
- Demonstrated success in communicating with internal and external stakeholders to build and maintain strong partnerships.
- Must be a team player who works well in a collaborative environment.
Skills
- Green construction (introductory carpentry, electrical and plumbing)
- Green building operations and maintenance
- Solar PV installation
- HVAC maintenance and repair
- Clean energy sector knowledge
- Microsoft Office
- Google Suite
- Salesforce
- Verbal communication
- Strong writing skills
- Project management
- Time management
- Attention to detail
- Adaptability
Location
- NYC-based
- Long Island City, Queens
- New York metro area
- New York
- New Jersey
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
- Contract
Experience Level
- 3+ years of field and/or teaching experience
- 8+ years of experience in clean energy sector areas
Education Level
- Industry-recognized certifications extremely desirable, such as BPI, GPRO, BPI, NABCEP, LEED, or related.
Salary/Compensations
- $75,000-95,000 per year
Benefits
- Health care and well-being programs, including medical, dental, vision, EAP
- 4 weeks of paid time off that increases with tenure
- Life and disability insurance
- Paid Holidays
- 401(k) retirement savings
About the Company
- Solar One is a 501c(3) organization empowering communities in the New York City metro area to thrive in a low carbon, resource-efficient, and socially inclusive world.
- Originally founded in 2004 to manage Stuyvesant Cove Park, Solar One has grown into an award-winning organization with a thriving array of programs.
- Solar One's mission is to design and deliver innovative education, training, and technical assistance that fosters sustainability and resiliency in diverse urban environments.
- We empower learning that changes the way people think about energy, sustainability, and resilience by engaging and educating a diverse set of stakeholders and beneficiaries.
Equal Opportunity
- Solar One is an equal opportunity employer.
- Solar One strives to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and justice in all elements of our work and with our partners.
- Solar One recruits and employs through a lens of equity and encourages people of all races, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, genetic information, service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law to apply.