Senior Climate Resilience Specialist (Energy Infrastructure)

Location: Hybrid work from an hirify.global office in Arlington, VA; Los Angeles, CA; or New York, NY, with a minimum of 2 days in the office required. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Base salary anticipated at $81,499–$110,000; the broader full-time pay range is $81,499–$138,549.

Company

hirify.global is a global advisory and technology services provider helping public- and private-sector clients address complex challenges through expertise and technology.

What you will do

• Support applied climate adaptation and resilience projects for energy utilities and public-sector clients.
• Assess climate and extreme-weather risks to energy infrastructure, operations, customers, and communities.
• Develop vulnerability assessments, adaptation strategies, and investment priorities across the energy value chain.
• Lead defined analytical and client-delivery workstreams and prepare presentations, reports, memoranda, and other deliverables.
• Guide junior staff and manage schedules, budgets, and quality for assigned project tasks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, policy, environmental science, or another field with relevant climate-change and energy or critical-infrastructure training or experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience supporting energy utilities or public-sector clients with climate risk, resilience, and/or adaptation planning.
• 2+ years of experience with electrical utilities or understanding of electrical transmission and distribution systems.
• Expertise in data analytics tools, including GIS and Python.
• Authorization to work in the United States is required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in civil or electrical engineering or a related energy-systems or critical-infrastructure field.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience supporting energy utilities or public-sector clients with climate risk, resilience, and/or adaptation planning.
• Experience with utility risk management, asset management, strategic and long-range planning, project finance, or regulatory issues.
• Experience across energy generation, transmission, and distribution, including technical familiarity with varied energy assets.
• Technical and team-management experience on complex consulting projects.
• Ability to analyze technical infrastructure information and synthesize findings for decision making.
• Familiarity with climate-change adaptation and resilience concepts, plus strong oral and written communication, organization, attention to detail, prioritization, and multitasking skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Multidisciplinary environment with climate scientists, engineers, planners, economists, and policy specialists.
• Full-time employment with a hybrid office arrangement.
• Equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable accommodations available throughout the application and employment process.
• New H-1B visa sponsorship is not available; candidates with valid work authorization may be considered for a change-of-employer petition subject to policy and immigration requirements.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted directly by the applicant; third-party or bot-submitted applications may be excluded.
• Use of AI tools to generate or assist with interview responses is not permitted unless an accommodation has been arranged in advance.