Careers
Are you ready to put your passion for a cleaner energy future to work? Join the RAP team.
RAP is seeking collaborators who are enthusiastic about clean energy. We’re looking for curiosity, humor and intentionality. We strive to be people-centered in all we do, both our external work and our internal processes.
With offices in the U.S., Belgium, Germany and China, and a strong remote team, RAP is excited to meet and consider experts the world over. See below for positions for which we are currently hiring, if none are listed, please check back soon.
RAP is an equal opportunity employer.
RAP’s Culture
RAP is optimistic about the future.
Rappers wear the badge of ‘wonk’ with pride. We show up with intention, compassion and empathy, bringing our authentic selves to this impactful work. We relish making complex things understandable and appreciate fresh perspectives. Working at RAP means diving deep into clean energy challenges and solutions while also benefiting from a life-work balance. We offer competitive pay in all the regions where we work, and we encourage and enable staff to take advantage of professional development opportunities.
RAP is dedicated to fostering a people-centered workplace where everyone can collaborate with curiosity and purpose. We strive for continuous improvement, but understand that the goal is progress, not perfection.
We approach the clean energy transition with enthusiasm for the next big idea and we’d love your input in our next dialogue.
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Current Open Positions at RAP
Associate, International Clean Heat
Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)® and Agora Thinktanks are independent, global non-governmental organisations with a mission of advancing policy innovation and thought leadership and convening within the energy community. They are combining and will soon be under a new name. Our vision is to create a clean, reliable, equitable, and cost-effective energy future for all. The organisation focuses most of its activities in the U.S., China, Europe, India, and Southeast Asia.
Our global heat and buildings practice brings together experts across our regions to help governments decarbonise heating and cooling in buildings through efficient electrification, energy efficiency, and well-designed markets, regulation, and consumer protection. Alongside offering regional technical assistance, we co-run the secretariat of the International Clean Heat Forum, providing a platform for governments to learn from one another and accelerate the move away from fossil fuel heating.
The Associate, Clean Heat, under general supervision, leads the day-to-day running of the International Clean Heat Forum (the Forum), a global network of around 100 national and subnational governments, clean heating industry leaders, and civil society organisations working to accelerate the transition to clean and efficient heating in buildings. Launched at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, the Forum is a working group (“Hub”) of the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC), supported by the Scottish and UK governments, with its secretariat run jointly by RAP (soon to be under a new name as we move into strategic cooperation with Agora Thinktanks) and E3G.
The Associate will coordinate the Forum’s member engagement, events, and knowledge-sharing activities, grow its membership (particularly among national governments outside Europe and industry actors), and contribute to or deliver policy research that helps governments design and implement effective clean heat policy. The role sits within our global expertise directorate and will contribute to RAP’s and Agora´s wider thought leadership on building decarbonization, which considers heating, cooling, building-level energy technologies and their integration into energy systems.
This position offers a unique opportunity for a policy professional with strong organisational and analytical skills to work directly with policymakers across continents, shape an international network at an early stage of its growth, and help move heating away from fossil fuels while protecting affordability and equity. To excel in this role, a level of independence will be needed, and the candidate should be an enthusiastic self-starter.
Location:
Flexible. Preference for candidates based in a country where space heating is a major share of energy demand and where RAP/Agora Energiewende has a presence, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium and France. Must be able to work across time zones and occasionally travel internationally, as needed.
Manager, India Program
The Program Manager is responsible for keeping the India Program organized, connected and well supported. The role combines program and grant management, stakeholder and events support, and office and administrative support for a growing team, most of whom are based in India. It ensures that the program has the processes, information, reporting mechanisms and day-to-day operational support needed to translate strategy into execution.
This is a role for someone who is organized, proactive and personable, who enjoys making complex work run smoothly, and who can build good relationships with Indian stakeholders and colleagues.
Location:
Delhi, India. Some domestic and/or international travel may be expected.
Program Manager, Energy Systems Innovation (ESI)
The Program Manager is responsible for creating and maintaining the systems that allow ESI’s technical experts, project leads, consultants, and partners to work effectively across multiple countries, projects, and funding streams. The role ensures that the program has the processes, information, contracts, reporting mechanisms, governance structures, and coordination tools needed to translate strategy into execution.
ESI is a growing and dynamic team that provides technical assistance with a global footprint. We are looking for someone who is proactive, adaptive to change and ready to take on new and emerging challenges. ESI works across several countries and regions at once, with many funders, partners and consultants. This is a role for someone who is detail-oriented, enjoys making complex work run smoothly, and is comfortable collaborating with directors, technical experts and external partners.
Location:
Remote, from an approved location relative to role and department. We welcome applicants whose working hours overlap with Central European Time (roughly UTC to UTC+3), for example: Europe, North Africa and South Africa. Some domestic and international travel is to be expected. RAP does not sponsor visas for this role.
Associate, Electric Transport & Flexible Demand - Europe
The Associate, Electric Transport & Flexible Demand plays a key role in advancing RAP’s work in Europe on policy and regulation for leveraging flexible demand potential from sectors such as transport and considers the issue in the context of other electrifying sectors and demand flexibility options. The thematic focus covers electrification trends in various segments and use cases, infrastructure deployment and planning needs, optimal integration of electric transport in power grids (including power system planning and tariff design).
The Associate will support the development of analysis, policy and regulatory proposals aimed at ensuring that the flexibility potential is leveraged optimally based on tested and emerging policy solutions and will disseminate those insights and best practices to regulators and policymakers in RAP’s priority European countries and with EU institutions.
The Associate will contribute to analytical work, drafting high-quality research and regulatory proposals and stakeholder engagement. This role offers hands-on experience in policy analysis, regulatory frameworks, and energy systems transformation, with guidance as needed by senior team members.
Location:
Based in the Brussels office or remote/home-based in Europe, with preference for countries within travel proximity to Brussels. Some domestic and international travel is to be expected. RAP does not sponsor visas for this role.
Executive Business Partner, U.S.
We are seeking an experienced, highly organized, and resourceful Executive Business Partner to support the Executive Chair and Director of Strategy of U.S. Programs, as well as the Director of Global Operations.
This role is for someone who enjoys being a trusted partner to senior leadership, anticipates needs, brings structure to competing priorities, and takes genuine pride in making complex work run smoothly. We need a proactive problem solver who takes ownership, exercises sound judgment, and follows through without requiring constant direction.
We welcome candidates from a variety of professional backgrounds, including established Executive Assistants, Executive Business Partners, Project and Program Managers, Administrative Managers, and Operations Professionals. What matters most is your ability to combine exceptional executive support with independent thinking, strong organizational skills, and a service-oriented approach.
This is a hands-on position requiring both meticulous attention to detail and an understanding of the bigger picture. You should be equally comfortable managing complex calendars, coordinating across international time zones, driving projects forward, and improving how work gets done. No task is too small when it contributes to the team’s effectiveness.
The position is primarily remote, with regular office runs and occasional in-person responsibilities at our downtown Washington, DC office.
Location:
Remote, commutable distance to the downtown Washington DC office for regular office runs. Further occasional domestic and international travel to be expected.
Director, Global Industry
As Agora Think Tanks and the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) move into strategic cooperation, Agora Industry’s global team, bringing together around 25 colleagues, is entering a new phase: expanding into India, the United States, Latin America, and multilateral arenas, while deepening its analytical capabilities in industrial strategy, competition policy, industry finance and supply chain resilience in its core geographies in Europe and Asia.
We are looking for a Director, Global Industry to lead this next stage: someone who can connect rigorous analysis with political judgement, further build an international team, and position the organisation as a trusted partner to governments and institutions navigating the global industrial transformation.
Location:
Strong preference for candidates based in one of Agora’s or Regulatory Assistance Project’s (RAP) hubs (Washington, Netherlands, Berlin, Brussels, Bangkok, Beijing, New Delhi) with option to work remotely.
Requirement to spend regular and sufficient in-person time with the team, currently based predominantly in Europe, particularly Berlin.
Frequent international travel required.