Associate Consultant

At E Source, we help utilities make sense of complexity in a rapidly changing landscape, and we’re looking for an Associate Consultant to help shape how that impact shows up in the world.

E Source is a research, data/analytics, and technology focused professional services firm focused exclusively on the utility industry in the US and Canada. We help utilities target and serve their customers more effectively, enhance and optimize their grid, and leverage operating best practices and technologies to manage their business more effectively. Headquartered in Texas, we have 450+ employees across the US and Canada. Learn more at www.esource.com

As an Associate Consultant, you’ll support applied research and evaluation projects that help utility clients better serve their customers. You’ll build foundational consulting skills while collecting, organizing, and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data and contributing to clear, client-ready deliverables.

You’ll 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’ll execute assigned tasks, respond to feedback, and rapidly grow your research skills, critical thinking, problem-solving capabilities, and energy industry knowledge.

In this role, you will:

• 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