Join The Clean Fight Team
Senior Associate
The Senior Associate will collaborate with members of The Clean Fight’s Program and Partnerships teams to design, manage and execute core programming across current and future initiatives. Responsibilities span the full program lifecycle, including startup sourcing and recruitment, selection process coordination, technical assistance provider management, event planning and delivery, partner recruitment support, and engagement with startups and partners. This role will serve as a critical point of contact for cohort companies and/or program partners, ensuring strong day-to-day communication, while proactively identifying commercial, funding, and partnership opportunities across programs.
We are looking for someone with 4+ years experience, who is passionate about supporting businesses that are critical to the clean energy transition. Ideally, the Senior Associate has hands-on experience helping to scale growth stage companies, facilitating external stakeholder relationships, and has knowledge of the clean energy business sector. They thrive in an early-stage environment by being a fast learner willing to roll up their sleeves, are self-motivated, solution-oriented, resourceful, and able to prioritize and multitask.
Senior Analyst
The Senior Analyst will work closely with members of The Clean Fight’s Program and Partnerships teams to support the design, execution, and growth of our world-class programs and ecosystem relationships. Each program focuses on a different part of the clean energy economy, ranging from buildings to energy storage.
The Senior Analyst will play a critical role in program management, supporting a wide range of program development activities and helping deliver a world-class program curriculum, events, and related program services. Through this role, the Senior Analyst will gain exposure to climate technology solutions, key funders across the private and public sectors, and a broad network of customer, capital, community, and ecosystem partners. The role will include opportunities to support external stakeholder engagement, relationship management, and partnership development efforts across The Clean Fight’s initiatives.
We are looking for someone with 2+ years experience who is organized, detail-oriented, conscientious, and passionate about supporting businesses that are critical to the clean energy transition. They are comfortable engaging with a wide range of external stakeholders and are excited by relationship-building in support of climate innovation and ecosystem growth.
Who We Are
The Clean Fight is a not-for-profit dedicated to accelerating the adoption of climate solutions in New York State and beyond. Given that many of the technologies we need to solve the climate crisis already exist, it’s imperative that we ensure they are adopted quickly, affordably, and at scale. To enable this adoption, The Clean Fight designs and implements different models of adoption to identify and share the actionable strategies that can lead to the rapid deployment of decarbonization solutions, for all.
The Clean Fight currently has three core programs. The accelerator program plays an important role in the New York State innovation ecosystem as the only accelerator focused on growth-stage companies, providing an essential next step for innovative climate companies looking to move from initial deployment to broad market adoption. We help them to quickly scale in NY by collapsing the sales cycle through high-touch customer and capital partner matchmaking, technical assistance, and non-dilutive investments to help with initial deployments. Each cohort focuses on a different part of the clean energy economy: our practice areas include buildings, energy storage, and food services.
Our second program, The Empire Technology Prize, is a $10M prize program focused on advancing the development and deployment of easy to adopt clean heating solutions for New York's tall buildings. By focusing the world’s best innovators on this issue, combined with the involvement of New York's leading real estate players as demonstration partners, we hope not only to collapse the time to market for these crucial technologies, but to provide a blueprint for other markets in the US and globally to do the same.
Our latest program, the Energy Storage Capital Challenge, is designed to support innovative energy storage projects in need of capital to advance their deployment in New York State. This is a pivotal time for energy storage innovation in New York, with unprecedented Federal and State incentives, policy, and funding to support the deployment of projects. However, significant obstacles exist for innovators and developers to successfully deploy in New York’s unique market. The Energy Storage Capital Challenge is focused on one key need: Aligning capital to accelerate innovative energy storage projects.
We are supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and New Energy New York (NENY). We are a chapter of New Energy Nexus, an international not-for-profit that supports clean energy entrepreneurs around the world with funds, accelerators, and networks, operating programs in the US, China, India, Southeast Asia, and East Africa.