Job Description
Description
2026 Summer Intern, Agriculture Program (Kansas City, MO)
Are you a student seeking experience in the agriculture sector with account management, project execution, data analytics, and reporting? Do you possess strong communication skills, enjoy interacting with key stakeholders in rural communities, and have an interest in Energy Efficiency programs to support today’s farmers and greenhouse operators? Do you enjoy working with highly-skilled, multi-disciplinary, and passionate team members, collaborating with stakeholders, and bringing it all together to deliver quality outcomes? If so, then you have found the perfect internship!
Join our team as a 2026 Summer Intern to support our growing portfolio of work with utility companies. You will be learning and helping to deliver a holistic strategy to focus on external benchmarking and competitive analysis to evaluate and compare performance of utility programs to help drive strategic decision-making and continuous improvement.
This is an entry-level, 10-week, full time internship that begins in early June 2026. The work will be hybrid out of Kansas City, MO. Pay is expected to be $23 per hour. At this time, we are unable to provide relocation nor housing assistance.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute targeted outreach initiatives to drive engagement within key agricultural sectors by representing a utility at industry events and leveraging cross-promotional opportunities.
- Conducting Quality Assurance and Quality Control inspection on work performed
- Conduct competitive analysis of utility programs across the agricultural industry, focusing on cost efficiency, performance, and participation metrics for conventional growers and controlled environment agriculture operations.
- Determine what program types/designs are meeting and/or surpassing performance indicators ($/kWh, total/kWh, participant levels, goal achievement percentages, etc.).
- Research industry trends, best practices, and regulatory changes to identify areas for improvement and innovation around agriculture program design, delivery, and performance metrics.
- Work with teams to improve agricultural data collection, analysis, and reporting processes.
- Develop dashboards, reports, visualizations tools to communicate practical insights to growers, farm managers, and greenhouse operators.
Basic Qualifications
- By start date, a minimum of 30 completed college-level credit hours is required preferably energy or environment, agriculture business, economics, engineering or agriculture related subject.
- Must be able to pass any required background check(s), which may include drug screening.
Preferred Skills/Qualifications
- Knowledge of farm practices and vairy farm industries
- Experience with precision agriculture technologies
- Sales experience in agriculture
- Knowledge of USDA federal programs for farmers such as REAP.
- Knowledge of or interest in utility and energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed energy resource programs and markets for commercial agriculture operations.
- Sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary and confidential information.
- Proficiency in Business Applications (such as Google, MS Office, Visualizations, Data Analytics, PowerBI).
- Strong analytics skills and experience working with large datasets.
- Strong communication and presentation skills to translate data insights into actionable recommendations for farm operators.
Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.
The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:
$34,392.00 - $58,466.00
Applications will be received until this position is filled.
