Smart Electric Power Alliance

Project Manager, Brand Strategy & Digital Communications

Remote

$70,000-$80,000

About This Job

About SEPA

The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA), a 501(c)(3) organization with over 1,000 members, accelerates the transition to a clean, affordable, and resilient electricity system for all. SEPA engages with its diverse membership - including utilities, policymakers, regulators, and technology companies - through education, collaboration and convening to advance innovative policy, regulatory, and technology solutions. For more information, please visit www.sepapower.org.

Position

The BrandCom Project Manager is a skilled and agile project management professional positioned within SEPA’s Project & Process Management department and dedicated to supporting the Brand Strategy and Digital Communications (BrandCom) team. This role plays a key part in streamlining project coordination across departments through SEPA’s Project Management Office (PMO), ensuring BrandCom’s contributions align with broader organizational timelines and goals.

This individual excels at managing multiple projects simultaneously—assessing resource needs, estimating project timelines, and understanding staff capacity. They are collaborative, adaptable, and thrive in a fast-paced, creative environment. The BrandCom Project Manager coordinates team activities in Monday.com, SEPA’s work management tool, applying best practices to manage internal timelines, create project boards, assign tasks, and ensure requests from other departments are handled efficiently and transparently.

Responsibilities

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Serve as a key member of the Project & Process Management team, contributing to organization-wide coordination by maintaining consistent project management practices, fostering alignment across departments, and helping ensure SEPA’s strategic initiatives move forward in a unified and efficient manner.

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Manage and prioritize all incoming service requests to BrandCom from across departments; review each request and assign projects to the appropriate BrandCom team member.

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Develop and manage project timelines for BrandCom initiatives, ensuring clear coordination between internal stakeholders and external contractors, keeping all parties informed of key milestones, deadlines, and potential roadblocks.

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Utilize Monday.com to create, maintain, and update project boards, defining scope, timelines, and key deliverables for each project.

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Oversee BrandCom FreshDesk ticket assignments, responding to requesters with updates or follow-up questions as needed.

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Coordinate closely with the Senior Manager, Marketing; Director, Marketing; and Senior Director, Brand Strategy & Digital Communications to align on project tasks, deadlines, and tactical plans.

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Partner with BrandCom department leads to access existing workflows, polices, and procedures; identify gaps or inefficiencies, and collaborate with PMO to develop new or updated documentation that supports consistent, effective operations.

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Support the Senior Manager, Marketing to manage vendor relationships, including contract oversight and subscription renewals.

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Coordinate with project managers across departments to support the development of project plans that require BrandCom involvement. Advise BrandCom leadership of key timelines and deliverables, ensure the team meets agreed upon deadlines, and escalate delays or risks to the originating departments project lead as needed.

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Provide project coordination support to the BrandCom team for SEPA’s in person and virtual events, including managing internal timelines, tracking deliverables, and facilitating logistical details to ensure alignment with event goals.

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Pulls monthly budget reports for project codes owned by BrandCom and circulates them to BrandCom leadership to support financial visibility and planning.

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Perform other duties as assigned.

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3-5 years of experience in project management, content production, or publishing operations within a marketing, communications, or content environment required.

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Experience managing contractors is a plus.

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Experience working with subject matter experts, copyeditors, designers, and web teams.

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Proficiency with project management software (Monday.com or similar) and Google Workspace (Drive, Mail, Apps).

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Proficiency with workflow automation tools.

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Experience in data visualization is a plus.

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Certificate in project management, preferred.

Attributes

Service driven.* You have a strong enthusiasm for customer service – both internally with colleagues and externally with members. Good communicator.* You have exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills. You are an adept consensus builder who excels at convening groups of people to reduce barriers. Strong attention to detail.* You are deadline-focused and understand the need for a quality product delivered on time. Your impeccable work style sets the standard. Proactive and self-motivated*. This is a key element of SEPA’s culture and is critical to our success. You think ahead, anticipate challenges, and take things from start to finish. You have a keen ability to determine what is working and what is not, and you take action to lead in the right direction. Flexible*. With major changes occurring both internally and in the industry at large, you are able to adjust to changing priorities and operate effectively in a fluid and fast-paced environment. Collaborative work-style.* With a wide range of stakeholders to support and/or guide, you possess a style that both complements the efforts and supports the needs of others.

What’s Attractive to the Right Candidate?

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This position will provide the opportunity to work in a cutting-edge organization which thrives on innovation.

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Collaborative and highly-supportive work environment with a great team of colleagues.

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You will be part of a team with a culture driven by these organizational behaviors:

+ Attitude: Exude responsiveness and friendliness + Excellence: Deliver high quality work that members rave about + Ownership: Take personal responsibility for SEPA’s success + Growth: Seek out and embrace opportunities to grow SEPA and yourself + Balance: Always examine all sides of an issue + Comradery: Work hard with the team and have fun with the team + Transparency: Communicate honestly, frequently, and openly

Our Culture

At SEPA, culture isn’t something we declare—it’s something we live. We are building a Culture for Everyone: a workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive, grow, and contribute to a mission that matters. SEPA prioritizes diversity within its workforce and across the energy industry. We recognize that a diverse and inclusive workforce drives innovation, creativity, and better decision-making.

SEPA aims to create a welcoming and equitable environment for all individuals, regardless of their background, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, or ability.

ADA Requirements and Disclaimer

This position description generally indicates the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities and other essential functions as covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act expected of an incumbent. This role requires the ability to use standard office equipment and learn new software applications as necessary. This is a largely sedentary role; however, some traveling may be required. This position description is not designed to cover a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of an incumbent. An incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

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