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President

Summary: The President leads Western Energy Alliance, a dynamic membership-based trade association that advocates on behalf of the upstream oil and natural gas industry in the West.

  • Duties and Qualifications:
    Provides strong, effective leadership of the Alliance; efficient operations; sound financial management; and a healthy, constructive work environment.
  • Sets the strategy and direction of the Alliance’s advocacy work and membership engagement, and conducts budgeting, planning, and fundraising to maintain and grow revenues.
  • Maintains effective relations with member companies and the governing Board of Directors and Board of Advisors to ensure all Alliance work effectively supports their needs and builds a strong membership base and collaborative community in the West.
  • Guides comprehensive policy, regulatory, and legal strategies to effect meaningful change in the Alliance’s core competencies of federal public lands, tribal lands, air and water quality, environmental analysis, wildlife, cultural, and other natural resource issues. Navigates the ever-changing national and regional political climate.
  • Cultivates positive relations with Congress, federal agencies, western states and counties, tribes, and other key policymakers and stakeholders such as industry and business groups; conservation organizations; academia; etc.
  • Possesses knowledge and relations with the Department of the Interior and Environmental Protection Agency, primarily, and familiar with related laws such as the Endangered Species Act, NEPA, Mineral Leasing Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Federal Land Policy and Management Act.
  • Serves as the primary spokesperson and demonstrates thought leadership.

Reports to: Chairman of the Board of Directors
Location: Denver, CO

Salary and Benefits: The salary range is $225,000 - $275,000 based on relevance of experience, with bonus potential up to 50%. Minimum of fifteen years of relevant leadership and policy experience required. Benefits package includes health, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; immediate vesting of employer matching 401(k); hybrid work environment with schedule flexibility; paid time off.

Submit resume to jobs@westernenergyalliance.org.

Policy Analyst

Summary: Western Energy Alliance is a dynamic membership-based trade association that advocates on behalf of the upstream oil and natural gas industry in the West. The Policy Analyst supports all advocacy work of the Alliance with research, policy analysis, writing policy pieces, and outreach to policymakers and stakeholders related to federal public lands, air and water quality, wildlife, cultural, and other natural resources and environmental issues.

Duties and Qualifications:

  • Supports all regulatory activities of the Alliance. Monitors issues, analyzes policies, and determines appropriate responses through committees.
  • Assists with a comprehensive regulatory strategy that includes developing robust technical comments; coordinating with other stakeholders to amplify comments; reaching out to agencies; messaging about the issues; and when necessary, challenging overreaching regulation in federal court.
  • Interfaces with and handles all policies relative to the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency primarily, and other federal agencies as necessary.
  • Develops regulatory comments related to the Endangered Species Act, NEPA, Mineral Leasing Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, among others.
  • Develops and strengthens relations with policymakers and stakeholders relevant to the industry including: the federal government; Congress; state and county governments; tribes; agriculture, mining, timber, and other natural resource industries; trade associations; allied organizations such as business, conservation, and grassroots groups; academia; and think tanks.
  • Coordinates policy analysis and develops messaging and policy content pieces for communication to external stakeholders. Provides regular communications to member companies about advocacy work.
  • Responsible for ensuring all regulatory committees, subcommittees, and task forces work properly to establish goals, positions, and strategies for policy issues.

Reports to: President
Location: Denver, CO

Salary and Benefits: The salary range is $85,000 - $110,000 based on relevance of experience, with bonus potential of 15-20% ($12,750 - $22,000). Minimum of five years of relevant policy experience is required. Benefits package includes health, dental, and vision coverage; life and disability insurance; immediate vesting of employer matching 401(k); hybrid work environment with schedule flexibility; paid time off.

Submit resume to jobs@westernenergyalliance.org.

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