Associate Consultant, Customer Energy Solutions

About the Role

At E Source, we help utilities make sense of complexity in a rapidly changing landscape. As an Associate Consultant, you will support applied research and evaluation projects that help utility clients better serve their customers. You will build foundational consulting skills while collecting, organizing, and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data and contributing to clear, client-ready deliverables. You will work on collaborative project teams deploying a range of research methods. With structured guidance and coaching from project managers, experienced consultants, and subject matter experts, you will execute assigned tasks, respond to feedback, and rapidly grow your research skills, critical thinking, problem-solving capabilities, and energy industry knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development of interview guides, survey instruments, focus group materials, and other data collection tools.
• Conduct in-depth interviews with program staff after shadowing more experienced team members and support other primary data collection activities as assigned.
• Analyze information from interviews, focus groups, surveys, secondary data sources, and other social science research methods with significant guidance.
• Use basic statistical concepts and analytical tools to organize, clean, review, and summarize data with support.
• Document methods, assumptions, analytical decisions, and work steps clearly so outputs are transparent and ready for review.
• Conduct quality control on your own work and incorporate reviewer feedback.
• Develop basic data visualizations, graphics, tables, and analytical outputs for client deliverables.
• Work closely with more experienced staff to interpret results and contribute to reports, presentations, memos, and other client-facing deliverables.
• Maintain awareness of priorities and deadlines, manage assigned tasks, and proactively communicate status, questions, and issues to project managers.
• Collaborate with consultants, project managers, subject matter experts, engineers, data scientists, and other team members to support successful project delivery.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Exposure to social science research or applied research methods through academic coursework, internships, or early professional experience.
• Basic qualitative and quantitative data analysis experience and familiarity with basic statistical concepts.
• Familiarity with Excel and analytical software such as Stata, SPSS, R, Python, or similar tools.
• Critical thinking, curiosity, and a desire to understand how assigned work fits within the broader project context.
• Effective written and verbal communication, attentive listening, and constructive response to feedback.
• Accountability for assigned work, adherence to established processes, and proactive questioning when guidance is needed.
• Organization, awareness of priorities and deadlines, and proactive communication when issues arise.
• Even Better If You Have:
• Contributed to primary data collection activities such as interviews, focus groups, or surveys.
• Created basic data visualizations or written summaries of research findings.
• Experience organizing, formatting, aggregating, or cleaning data for analysis.
• Used Microsoft Office tools, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, in academic or professional settings.
• Exposure to the utility or energy industry, including energy efficiency, load flexibility, electrification, or distributed energy resource programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with up to two years of relevant experience in applied research, program evaluation, social science, or a related field. Qualifying exposure may also come through coursework, internships, research assistantships, or early professional experience.

Additional Details

• This role will be remote, with minimal travel (1–4 times a year).
• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US or Canada.
• E Source is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas or Labour Market Impact Assessments (Cdn) at this time.