Responsibilities
What You’ll Be Doing
Cadmus seeks a Research Analyst to join its Energy Sector. This work would contribute to the design, development, and evaluation of programs that encourage adoption of energy efficiency, demand response, renewable energy, transportation electrification, and other distributed energy resources. Research Analysts are expected to conduct primary and secondary research on behalf of Cadmus’ energy clients (primarily utilities and administrators of energy efficiency programs) and are responsible for organizing and maintaining project timelines, executing research tasks, reviewing research results, processing and interpreting datasets, and creating written reports on the results.
Research Analysts should have professional or academic experience in the field of energy efficiency or sustainability, data analysis or social science research methods, and/or program evaluation. They should also be highly motivated to perform and learn, be able to work collaboratively and independently, manage assigned tasks and projects from start to finish with minimal input from supervisors, and have exceptional written, verbal, research, data, and analysis skills.
Responsibilities:
- Work independently to participate in research projects and manage research tasks
- Support in the design of high-quality data collection tools, including interview guides and survey instruments
- Conduct telephone interviews and surveys with energy efficiency program staff, utility customers, and other market actors
- Review marketing metrics, survey, interview, and program data to identify trends, summarize key findings, and describe the relationship of program activities to program results
- Support in the documentation of results for clients through PowerPoint presentations, memos, and written reports
- Provide administrative assistance to project managers through budget tracking and project planning
- Communicate professionally by telephone and email with out-of-state colleagues and clients, in varying time zones