Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The California Energy Commission’s Siting, Transmission, and Environmental Protection Division is hiring a Student Assistant to support administrative work, project coordination, and division-wide initiatives. The role contributes to the division’s work licensing and regulating power plants, ensuring compliance, and planning California’s electric system infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Support program staff with administrative duties, including organizing and maintaining Siting, Transmission, and Environmental Protection (STEP) files and notes
• Coordinate, track, and contribute to the overall success of various Division projects, including IT projects and new system implementations
• Coordinate and track Division-wide activities, including legislative and policy initiatives, budget tracking and organization, personnel matrixing, and process improvement and development
• Review budgets and budget-related materials for discrepancies and perform quality control checks
• Create presentations, coordinate meetings, and follow up on related action items and topics
• Assist with documentation and support workflow processes
• Analyze, review, and format technical documentation
• Perform calculations and data entry as needed
• Assist staff and management with other tasks, projects, and special assignments as needed

Skills

• Must be a college student attending classes during the regular term (Fall, Spring and Winter, if applicable), at one of the accredited colleges or universities on our affiliation list
• Students must be enrolled in at least: six-semester units or nine quarter units for undergraduate students; four-semester units or six quarter units for graduate students
• Students declared major must match the major(s) listed in the job posting
• Accounting, Biological Studies, Business Administration, Communication Studies, Computer Science, Construction Management, Economics, English, Environmental Studies, Finance, Geography, Government, Marketing, Mathematics or Statistics, MIS, Natural Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy and Administration, Public Health, Sociology, or any other closely related field
• Students must be in good standing and have a minimum 2.0 GPA or above
• Must have excellent skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and be proficient in Outlook
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be comfortable or have a willingness to learn Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and various other computer platforms
• Ability to manage multiple, often concurrent, priorities and objectives
• Ability to think critically, act proactively, and communicate effectively
• Individuals who are, or have been, a dependent child in foster care, a homeless youth or a formerly incarcerated youth as defined by Government Code section 18220 are encouraged to apply and will be given priority

Benefits

• Flexible workdays and work hours, Monday – Friday, between 8 AM – 5 PM.
• Work is performed in a remote environment, subject to the current UEI remote workplace policy and a UEI Work from Home Agreement; the option to work from home is at the discretion of the supervisor or employer and may be terminated at any time.

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