Utility Partnerships Manager

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $92k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Blue Forest

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11 - 50 employees

💸 Finance

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Finance • Non-profit • Social Impact

Blue Forest is a non-profit conservation finance organization that integrates communities, finance, and science to restore and safeguard forests and watersheds. Recognizing the dire state of our ecosystems due to increased wildfires and climate change, the company utilizes its Forest Resilience Bond to attract private investment, accelerating the pace and scale of restoration projects. Through scientific research and ecosystem evaluations, Blue Forest quantifies the benefits of these projects and collaborates with a wide array of partners to mitigate climate risks. Their innovative approach in conservation finance is designed to leverage private investment for public environmental good.

📋 Description

• Own utility partner relationships across active FRBs — serving as the primary Blue Forest point of contact alongside the FRB project manager, staying current on conversations, tracking engagement activity and contribution pipelines, and surfacing emerging themes and opportunities across projects • Build the internal systems for managing utility partner relationships — including compiling a partner contribution inventory and establishing processes for tracking, reflection, and continuous improvement • Manage the impact analytics pipeline behind utility reporting, ensuring partners receive high quality impact reports. • Lead engagement with emerging utility partners to unlock contributions to FRBs • Lead coordination of utility partnership working groups and related convenings • Develop collateral and value proposition materials that articulate Blue Forest's benefits to utility and corporate decision-makers • Support high-value utility relationships as needed, with those relationships strategically owned by the Director • Support coordination of utility meetings, site visits, and partnership development activities

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant work experience • Experience in partnership development, business development, or related fields • Experience working with utilities • Strong relationship-building skills and ability to manage multiple external partner relationships simultaneously with professionalism and follow-through • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize technical, market, or policy concepts into clear memos, presentations, and materials for utility and corporate audiences • Proven ability to build or manage internal systems and structure around complex, evolving workstreams – including tracking, reporting, and process development • Proactive and solutions-oriented – able to identify emerging challenges across a portfolio of relationships and take initiative to address them • Comfortable with ambiguity and able to bring clarity and organization to early-stage and rapidly evolving work • Collaborative working style with the ability to coordinate effectively across internal teams and external partners.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage; subsidized coverage for dependents • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan with a 5% employer match • 4 weeks paid vacation and 17 paid holidays; paid sick time and volunteer time • 3 months of paid family leave • Employer-paid life and long-term disability insurance • Access to Dependent Care FSA and Health FSA • Public Lands Exploration stipend (reimbursements for visits to National Forests, county parks, etc.) • Monthly Home Office stipend or co-working space provided • Dependent care costs are subsidized for business travel • Additional stipends for health & wellness, home internet, and cell service • Financial support for professional development