The Senior Stakeholder Relations Analyst –CENTRALwill work within AES Clean Energy’s Stakeholder Relations team, specifically MISO, SPP, and ERCOT. This is an exciting opportunity to have a career in industry-leading engagement strategies to empower communities and advance a carbon-free future. This role will support AES’s strategic renewable energy-related stakeholder engagement, local community relations, drafting communications and collateral materials for strategic planning and social impact partnership development. This role will report to the Senior Manager of Stakeholder Relations, CENTRAL. 

Travel for this role is estimated at 50%in and around states in ERCOT, SPP, and MISO territories.Candidates will work from the Houston, Texas office. 

As an AES Senior Stakeholder Engagement Analyst, your primary focus is to:   

• Lead engagement efforts for clean energy projects, as assigned.  

• Develop and implement state and project-specific engagement plans with key stakeholders for AES Clean Energy. Key stakeholders include local government officials, business leaders, landowners, emergency responders, and non-government organizations. Where this involves Indigenous people, this engagement is consistent with the principles contained in AES’s Voluntary Tribal Engagement Policy.  

• Maintain, cultivate, and document relationships and engagement activities with key leadership within affected communities, local organizations, and Indigenous communities.  

• Build and maintain strong internal relationships with cross-functional teams, including development, permitting, execution, construction and others.   

• Must have knowledge and understanding of our business, issues, risks, and opportunities associated with respective communities, organizations, and Indigenous communities.  

• Inform the team of stakeholder concerns and critical activities.   

• Accountable for contributing to the development, implementation, and modification of state engagement plans and related budgets that align with the company’s brand positioning and support its development objectives.  

Specific Accountabilities:  

• Plan and execute in-person and virtual community engagement in alignment with project educational and collaboration needs.  

• Create and maintain accurate lists of stakeholders in project areas and document stakeholder interactions through the utilization of our digital stakeholder relations management tool.  

• Research, engage, and build strategic partnerships within local communities hosting AES projects, in alignment with AES’s Social Impact Program.  

• Collect and analyze stakeholder feedback through various channels and document and manage this data utilizing various stakeholder interaction and tracking tools. 

• Monitor toll-free phone lines and project emails.  

• Write, format, and coordinate with AES communications to create and maintain state and project websites.  

• Complete needed administrative tasks such as processing invoices, mailings, ordering marketing materials, and managing an events and communications calendar.  

• Draft targeted external communications, such as informational handouts, talking points, presentations, and public meeting displays, to bolster local presence.  

• Monitor social and traditional media, including local media.  

• Network with peers, AES leaders, and other like-minded employees in dedicated events, lunch and learns and speaker series.  

• Participate in formalized AES-specific learning opportunities to further your knowledge and understanding towards accelerating the responsible energy transition.  

• Other duties as assigned.