Impact Intern - Strategy, Impact, and Communications

Impact Intern – Strategy, Impact, and Communications

This position is at NY Green Bank, a division of NYSERDA.  NY Green Bank is a specialized investment fund dedicated to bridging financial gaps and mobilizing private capital to advance the build-out of clean energy and renewable infrastructure in New York State.

NY Green Bank collaborates with the private sector to transform financing markets. It also develops transaction structures and methodologies that overcome typical clean energy investment barriers and can serve as replicable models for other capital providers.

As a leader in advancing New York’s energy transition, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has remained a credible, objective and trusted partner in our State’s energy planning as well as deploying new and innovative technologies to expand New York’s economy. NYSERDA has worked for the past 50 years to protect the environment and help New Yorkers increase energy efficiency, lower energy costs and reduce reliance on fossil fuels. NYSERDA engages with stakeholders including residents, business owners, developers, community leaders, local government officials, universities, utilities, investors, entrepreneurs, and more, to develop, invest, and foster conditions that:

• Attract the private sector capital investment needed to expand New York’s clean energy economy.
• Overcome barriers to using clean energy at a large-scale in New York.
• Enable New York’s communities and residents to benefit equitably from energy efficiency and renewable energy.

INTERNSHIP OVERVIEW

NY Green Bank (“NYGB”) is a globally recognized $1.0 billion sustainable investment management fund with the mission to accelerate clean energy deployment in New York State (“NYS” or the “State”) by collaborating with the private sector to transform financing markets. NYGB works to increase the size, volume and breadth of sustainable infrastructure investment activity throughout the State, expand the base of investors focused on NYS clean energy, and increase market participants’ access to capital on commercial terms. To achieve these objectives, NYGB develops transaction structures and methodologies that overcome typical clean energy investment barriers, such as challenges evaluating risk and addressing the needs of distributed energy and efficiency projects where underwriting may be geared more towards larger and/or groups of somewhat homogeneous investment opportunities. With more than $2.6 billion invested as of December 2025, NYGB has demonstrated that many of the financial market barriers to sustainable infrastructure projects in NYS are surmountable. NYGB is a division of the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (“NYSERDA”). 

This is a paid internship for current students at an accredited college. The pay rate is from $18 to $20 per hour based on current class year. This internship will begin on June 1, 2026 and continue to August 7, 2026.

Interns must be located in New York State or an immediately adjacent state while working. It is expected that interns will follow our telework policy, with a combination of in-office and remote work. Interns work up to 18.5 hours per week during the semester, and up to 37.5 hours per week between semesters, when not attending classes.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Working closely with the full Strategy, Impact, and Communications (SIC) team, support the full range of day-to-day activities with respect to:
• Analyze investment proposals and estimate environmental impact attributable to underlying projects;
• Support investment portfolio performance analysis;
• Support portfolio environmental and financial market evaluation activities;
• Maintain databases;
• Ad-hoc and special projects relating to NYGB’s ongoing business and operations.
• Support the development of an expanded impact reporting framework for NYGB;
• Drafting regular stakeholder outreach efforts (quarterly webinars, reviewing publicly filed materials, etc.) and responding to NYSERDA, investor/regulator (i.e., PSC and DPS), and other stakeholder information requests; and

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Current student at an accredited college. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts; 
• High competency in data analytics and management with an ability to aggregate and extrapolate information from various data sources and analytics reports;
• Proficiency in MS Office products and strong problem-solving skills;  
• Able to handle a variety of projects in parallel and prioritize;
• Takes ownership of tasks, projects and relationships;
• Adaptable self-starter capable of taking on new tasks as needed while working effectively in a dynamic, fluid and fast-paced organization;
• Able to build trust and strong relationships across the organization.

TO APPLY

Please submit 2 files, one for the resume (1 page) and another for your Cover Letter containing a 150-word statement of interest. Please submit your application online through our Careers page by January 30, 2026. 

(Applications submitted only through your school’s recruiting portal will not be considered.)

Please note that during the application process, you may be prompted to opt-in to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) scoring. This is an automatic request in the ADP system but is not a feature that is used by NYSERDA in its recruiting and hiring process. Your response will have no impact on your application to NYSERDA.

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