ABOUT THIS POSITION

Community Organizers are responsible for our community outreach and education with the goal of raising awareness and inviting community members to join the clean energy revolution through a mix of canvassing and event attendance.  This is a seasonal role from spring through summer - with the possibility to stay on longer as supported by needs. Local organizing work involves anything and everything—including knocking on doors, showing up at farmers’ markets and festivals, hosting a community discussion, partnering with a local business, and otherwise engaging communities wherever they are...including online!All in all, SunCommon’s team of Organizers is responsible for generating the homeowner interest that keeps the rest of the SunCommon team busy assessing homes, designing systems, and selling solar and other renewable energy solutions.The success of this Organizer’s work will be measured by their ability to drive leads that convert to visits, their ability to learn how to qualify high-propensity neighborhoods and quality leads, and their ability to create engaging educational messaging to homeowners and event attendees.   ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Drive leads through a mix of community outreach activities, primarily focused on canvassing and supplemented with community events.
• Speak with poise and presence in front of an audience.
• Effective time management and responsibility prioritization since much of the work is done independently, in the community.
• Highly adaptable - able to troubleshoot strategically and make things happen.
• Develop and implement new strategies to engage community members and manage event recruitment.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate for this position will have:

• At least one year experience in political organizing, canvassing, sales, or fundraising.
• Goal-oriented. Attuned to key metrics and driven to deliver.
• Demonstrated grit and persistence.
• Skill with public speaking and community relations.
• Demonstrated familiarity with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media including digital community building, influencer networking, and content curation.
• An infectious passion for re-energizing our state with renewable power.
• A flexible schedule. A willingness to meet with solar homeowners and community leaders and to do event work, typically 12 - 8pm or 1 - 9pm with weekend work, not to exceed 40 hours per week. 
• A willingness to meet with solar homeowners and community leaders and to do event work, including frequent nights and weekends.
• Valid driver’s license.
• An existing network of contacts is beneficial to the position.

Physical requirements

• Ability to regularly lift up to 50lbs, bend, twist, kneel, squat in the context of transporting, setting up and tearing down displays.
• Ability to stand for long periods of time at events. 
• Ability to walk on variable surfaces for extended periods of time. 
• Work outside in varying weather conditions. 
• Flexibility to travel throughout our region, including long hours of driving. 

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

•    If this opportunity extends beyond the seasonal hire, SunCommon provides a strong package of benefits for full and part time team members, including:
• For the employee and their family, fully paid medical premiums as well as a significant contribution toward medical deductible expenses,
• For the employee and family - fully paid dental premiums,
• 3 weeks paid personal leave (combined vacation and sick) for year 1; 4 weeks for year 2,
• 10 paid holidays annually,
• 401k company match 1:1 up to 3% of salary that the employee sets aside then 1:2 match for 4 or 5%.
• Student Loan Paydown Program
• Employee Assistance Program

SUNCOMMON VALUES

Achieving our mission is critical work, and how we do that work matters. One way SunCommon creates positive change is internally, by instituting and measuring ourselves against practices that do right by our employees, customers, and communities. The following core values are critical to our operations and our success: Embody Excellence, Maintain Humanity, Prioritize Inclusivity, Cultivate Joy.

We do it by celebrating creativity, cross-functional collaboration, high energy, hard work, good play, deep networking and with the acknowledgement that we’ll each make mistakes and learn from them.  We know success.  We know fun.  Come do both with us.

As a certified BCorps, we take seriously our responsibility to succeed and to honor our triple bottom line commitments to People (our employees and their families, our Customers and residents of the communities where we do business), Planet (our beloved environment and the broader globe, given climate change) and Profit (providing capital to grow, revenue to share among our employees, and a reasonable return to our investors). This is important work, and we have fun doing it.  Innovation is fun stuff.

SunCommon of course is an equal opportunity employer and we don’t tolerate harassment or other discrimination based upon sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, caregiver status, pregnancy, military or veteran status, race, color, religion, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information or any other legally protected status.

OUR PURPOSE

SunCommon believes business should create positive change and help solve the world’s biggest problems.  Our mission is to accelerate the transition to solar power in our communities because ensuring a habitable planet is the most important work of our lifetimes.

ABOUT THE BUSINESS

SunCommon is a market leading renewable energy company operating in Vermont and New York’s Hudson Valley and Capital District. SunCommon is a subsidiary of iSun, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISUN), a leading solar energy and clean mobility infrastructure company with 50-years of construction experience in solar, electrical and data services. We use an innovative approach to marketing, via high-touch, personal interactions with home and business owners who want clean electricity and more energy security. We’ve done all the legwork to put together a total package that’s easy for the customer. We picked the best equipment manufacturers, arranged attractive financing that saves our customers real money and hired up the finest installers. There’s over 8,000 happy SunCommon residential and commercial customers so far - and lots more to come. Organized as a Benefit Corporation and certified as a BCorp, we’re committed to the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit. Our goal is to become the largest publicly traded, BCorp in the country producing renewable energy.