Associate Consultant, Customer Energy Solutions

The role

You will support applied research and evaluation projects to help utility clients serve customers. You will collect, organize, and analyze qualitative and quantitative data while contributing to client-ready deliverables.

What you will do

• Contribute to the development of interview guides, survey instruments, focus group materials, and other data collection tools
• Conduct in-depth interviews with program staff after shadowing experienced team members
• Analyze information from interviews, focus groups, surveys, and secondary data sources
• Use basic statistical concepts and analytical tools to organize, clean, review, and summarize data
• Document methods, assumptions, analytical decisions, and work steps
• Conduct quality control on own work and incorporate reviewer feedback
• Develop basic data visualizations, graphics, tables, and analytical outputs
• Work with experienced staff to interpret results and contribute to reports, presentations, and memos
• Manage assigned tasks and communicate status, questions, and issues to project managers
• Collaborate with consultants, project managers, subject matter experts, engineers, and data scientists

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with up to two years of relevant experience in applied research, program evaluation, social science, or a related field
• Exposure to social science research or applied research methods through academic coursework, internships, or early professional experience
• Basic qualitative and quantitative data analysis experience and familiarity with basic statistical concepts
• Familiarity with Excel and analytical software such as Stata, SPSS, R, Python, or similar tools
• Effective written and verbal communication
• Ability to think critically and demonstrate curiosity
• Ability to take accountability for assigned work and follow established processes
• Ability to stay organized and maintain awareness of priorities and deadlines

Nice to have

• Contributed to primary data collection activities such as interviews, focus groups, or surveys
• Created basic data visualizations or written summaries of research findings
• Experience organizing, formatting, aggregating, or cleaning data for analysis
• Used Microsoft Office tools, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, in academic or professional settings
• Exposure to the utility or energy industry, including energy efficiency, load flexibility, electrification, or distributed energy resource programs

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Company-paid life insurance
• Company-paid long- and short-term disability insurance
• Medical and dependent-care flexible spending plans
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off (FTO) policy
• 401(k) plan with a 3% employer match

Before you apply

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US or Canada
• Unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas or Labour Market Impact Assessments (Cdn)

About the company

E Source is a research, data/analytics, and technology focused professional services firm focused exclusively on the utility industry in the US and Canada. Headquartered in Texas, they have 450+ employees.