Job description
Do you want to be a part of the clean energy movement? Are you passionate about improving our environment for this generation and those to follow? Are you ready to take on new challenges and collaborate with a future-focused team leading the way into new markets? Join Nexamp!
This is where you can learn from industry leaders and become one yourself. It’s fast-paced, mission-based work that challenges the status quo. Be on the team that’s changing the world.
What we’re looking for:
Nexamp is growing our Community Engagement team and looking to hire a dedicated and enthusiastic Community Engagement Representative to join our team. We are looking for someonewho is motivated, community-focused to help us build trust, establish relationships, and drive participation in our Community Solar (CS) program within the Versant Bangor Hydro area. This role is essential to filling projects and expanding Nexamp’s presence in the region.
This is more than a sales job—it’s an opportunity to empower communities, drive renewable energy adoption, and make a real difference in Bangor. If you’re passionate about grassroots outreach, sustainability, and local impact, we’d love to hear from you!
This role will be working remotely and will require travel out of the Versant Bangor Hydro area.
What you’ll do:
Customer Acquisition & Sales:
- Identify, educate, and enroll small businesses to participate in the program.
- Persuade residents and businesses to switch from other providers to Nexamp’s Community Solar program.
- Effectively communicate Nexamp’s value proposition, energy savings, and environmental impact.
Community Engagement & Outreach:
- Conduct on-the-ground outreach to build relationships with nonprofits, local organizations, and community leaders to introduce Nexamp’s energy credit donation initiative.
- Educate communities about how Community Solar works and how they can benefit through direct interaction, presentations, or other educational activities
- Serve as the local face of Nexamp, ensuring we are seen as a trusted energy partner.
- Secure referral partners for residential customers.
- Report community feedback to manager
Lead Generation & Reporting:
- Identify strong potential candidates for Nexamp’s acquisition needs
- Track outreach efforts, community feedback, and enrollment progress.
- Collaborate with the marketing and sales teams to optimize outreach strategies.
What you’ll bring:
- Experience in door-to-door canvassing, ideally in political campaigns, community organizing, or grassroots sales.
- Partnership management or sales experience with non-profits or small businesses preferred.
- Strong community connections or ability to build trust quickly in Bangor and the surrounding area.
- Self-motivated, outgoing, and excellent at face-to-face communication.
- Comfortable working independently and in an incentive-based role.
- Commitment to Nexamp’s mission and have a passion for solving tomorrow’s climate crisis today.
- Demonstrated experience in effectively communicating information, ideas, and perspectives with people inside and beyond your organization.
- Experience in showcasing initiative to make improvements to current work, processes, products, and services across the organization. We value accountability and an ownership mentality.
- Ability to ask appropriate questions, analyze data, identify the root causes of problems, and present creative solutions.
- Expertise in building strong internal and external relationships with customers and stakeholders, instilling trust and loyalty across the industry.
- Eagerness to develop a fundamental understanding of how Nexamp operates and then apply that knowledge effectively to inform business decisions.
If you don’t meet 100% of the above qualifications, but see yourself contributing, please submit an application. We encourage people from minority or marginalized groups to apply.
At Nexamp, our mission is to build the future of energy so it is clean, simple, and accessible for all. We believe a diverse team brings different perspectives and experiences, thus benefiting our work. We are committed to providing a work environment free from discrimination. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. By encouraging a culture where ideas and decisions come from all people, we believe it will help us grow, innovate, and be a part of environmental and social change.
Nexamp’s People team manages all aspects of recruitment and hiring within our organization. We want to inform third-party recruiters, staffing firms, and related agencies that Nexamp does not accept unsolicited resumes. Resumes will only be considered from these entities if a signed agreement is in place and the People team explicitly authorizes external recruiting assistance for a specific position. Any unsolicited resumes received will be deemed the property of Nexamp. We want to emphasize that Nexamp is not liable for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.
