Employee Engagement Manager
- Schatz Energy Research Center
- Jan 27, 2025
Job Description
Are you passionate about creating a workplace where employees feel inspired, valued, and empowered to thrive? Do you have a talent for building connections and driving meaningful change? The Schatz Energy Research Center at Cal Poly Humboldt is looking for an Employee Engagement Manager to lead initiatives that foster a vibrant, inclusive, and engaged workplace culture.
This position is expected to start in mid-April 2025 and is based at the Schatz Center, in Arcata, CA. The exact start date is negotiable. Our team members currently have the option to work onsite all the time or alternate between working remotely and at least 40% of the time onsite at the Schatz Center.
Applications are being accepted now through 8am (Pacific) February 24, 2025. For more information and to view the full announcement, visit our job opening post at https://schatzcenter.org/2025/01/job-opening-employee-engagement-manager/.
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The Schatz Energy Research Center has an interdisciplinary team including faculty, research, and professional staff, and student employees. Our research and project expertise includes: solar power, microgrids, and demand response; clean transportation, electric vehicle deployment, hydrogen, and fuel cells; biomass technology assessment; off-grid energy access, planning and policy, energy efficiency, and environmental and human health impacts of energy use; and training, education, and outreach.
Our team includes researchers with degrees ranging from civil, environmental, and mechanical engineering to energy resources, chemistry, and environmental health. We also have four professional engineers on staff, covering civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering.
Our vision
We envision a healthy planet with thriving, equitable, resilient communities powered by clean energy.
Our purpose
Our team is committed to addressing climate change and improving human and ecosystem health through work that supports clean energy, climate-resilience, equity, and justice. Our work includes:
- Research and development – we do applied research focused on energy and environmental issues.
- Technology deployment – we design, integrate, build, test, and operate innovative, renewable, and resilient energy systems that are responsive to social and environmental needs.
- Collaboration – we work with public and private partners including Tribal Nations, communities, agencies, academic institutions, foundations, and industry to exchange knowledge and implement innovative solutions locally and internationally.
- Education and Training – we support learning that provides practical, hands-on experience for current and future practitioners and leaders.
Our values
- Kindness: Treating people and the planet with care and respect through acts of inclusion, helpfulness, generosity, and encouragement.
- Integrity: Approaching one another and our interdisciplinary research with curiosity, open-mindedness, transparency, and humility.
- Equity, diversity, and inclusion: Providing a nourishing and rewarding environment for Center staff, students, and partners. Respecting the differences of our colleagues and actively seeking to identify and remove barriers to ensure opportunities to thrive.
- Justice: Working to advance racial justice, gender equality and women’s empowerment, LGBTQIA+ rights, economic equality, and environmental justice.
- Teamwork and collaboration: Supporting internal and external community building and engagement to create inclusive and innovative solutions. Sharing knowledge with and learning from our colleagues, collaborators, community partners, and the public to advance understanding.
- Effectiveness: Using our technical, scientific, and policy expertise to do good work that makes a difference.