Deputy Director, Market & Policy Innovations (Western Markets)

Position Title: Deputy Director, (Western Markets) Market & Policy Innovation

Supervisor: Director, Market and Policy Innovation

Department/Division: US Programs

Hours:40 hours workweek (exempt)

Location: Western United States

Salary range: $130,900 – $208,800; exclusive of annual bonus and 401(k)

Position Overview

The Clean Energy Buyers Alliance works to solve the toughest market and policy barriers and deploy solutions for large energy customers to pursue clean energy and decarbonize the grid.

The Deputy Director of Market Policy and Innovation, Western Markets, will assist the Director of Market and Policy Innovation and oversee the day-to-day work of the west-related programs in the US Programs team to advance well-designed, organized, wholesale, electricity markets in the Western United States. As developing our people is extremely important, the Deputy Director is also expected to be a people leader, will assist the Director with funding development, budgeting, and actively engage the CEBA membership and CEBI community.

Core Responsibilities:

The Deputy Director will help support the Alliances efforts to create well-designed, organized wholesale electricity markets in the eleven contiguous Western states of the United States. The role will require working with the Director to set and execute strategy for influence, research, and action in key Western states. The Deputy Director will lead convenings and education to advance and amplify policies and programs with elected officials, state energy offices, Commissions and Commissioners, and other regulatory officials.

Specifically, the Deputy Director will be responsible for the following:

Lead execution of assigned programmatic priorities

• Advocate for CEBAs positions with regulatory agencies, policymakers, and other state decision makers, including managing CEBAs public comments
• Identify opportunities, such as state level dockets, for large energy customer engagement that accelerate market expansion and decarbonization
• Engage on Western region coalitions with partners to advance programmatic goals
• Develop and grow relationships with key stakeholders in the West to expand CEBA outreach and ability to influence market and decarbonization considerations
• Lead CEBAs Western Working Group and utilize workshops, meetings, webinars, and other discussions to advance programmatic goals
• Lead and/or support in the development of authoritative resources, including guiding principles, primers, white papers, guidance documents, policy principles, and frameworks, as well as thought leadership pieces informed by energy customers and industry experts
• Manage consultants and other technical experts in the execution of work and co-create thought leadership and recommendations
• With the Director, lead clean energy customer engagement that drives policy and advocacy solutions for advancing market access and design in the Western region

The Deputy Director shall also:

Provide direction and lead the team

• Inform programmatic budgets to assist the Director in managing team budgets
• Lead the development of grant deliverables

Collaborate and engage with Alliance stakeholders

• Collaborate with others in the organization to share best practices and support each others work
• Lead communications and relationship development with advisory committees, working groups, policy teams and other ad hoc committees
• Lead convenings and education of clean energy customers and other stakeholders on the benefits of well-designed markets in the West
• Participate in industry conferences, convenings, etc. and be capable of speaking to the Alliance aspiration, mission and vision
• Support large energy customer participation in high level meetings, such as with Governors, Lt. Governors, legislatures, state energy offices, and/or Commissions, that highlight how affordability, jobs, reliability, and resiliency can be maximized through clean energy

Qualifications:

Required:

• 17+ years experience if no higher education or
• 12+ years experience and Bachelors degree or
• 8+ years experience and Master’s Degree

Additional:

• Demonstrated knowledge and/or professional experience with wholesale energy markets or clean energy policy in Western states
• Experience working in Western states on issues related to clean energy development or procurement required
• Knowledge related to corporate, industrial, and institutional clean energy procurement preferred
• Demonstrated effective communication (verbal and/or written)
• Direct experience with public utility commissions, rulemaking, and state and federal policy issues regarding wholesale markets
• Experience with multi-stakeholder consultation processes that seek to remove ambiguity within strategic, system-level challenges
• Estimated up to 20% travel is required in this role (will vary based on location of successful candidate)
• A commitment to CEBAs core values of respect, integrity, service, and excellence

Physical Demands:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Communicate verbally and in written form with great facility

To Apply:

To be considered for this opportunity, please provide a resume and cover letter.

Our Salary and Benefits:
We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package that aims to develop a world-class team by holistically supporting the individual. CEBA also offers eligibility to participate in our annual bonus/ incentive plan based on both organizational and individual performance. CEBA believes that supporting all employees to have a full life, inside and outside of work, results in a team that feels personally engaged in CEBAs success.

CEBA strives for salary equity based on the job, and the candidates experience, skills, education, and (once hired) performance at CEBAnot based on a candidates negotiation skills, gender, race, sexual orientation, or any other non-skills-based attributes.

Benefits We Offer You:

• Highly Flexible PTO
• Re-charge Friday, once a month organizational paid time off
• Annual L&D Stipend to spend at your learning leisure
• Quality Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, with substantial employer subsidy, including domestic partners
• 401(k), with employer match
• Life, AD&D, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Generous Parental and Guardianship Leave
• Wellness Benefits
• Casual Work Environment, with flexible hours
• Earned sabbatical policy
• Employee Assistance Program

At CEBA You Belong:

Our members come from all walks of life and so do we. Our commitment to a zero-carbon energy system is for everyone and so too is our workplace.

CEBA is committed to maintaining a workplace where all employees have an opportunity to participate and contribute to the success of the business and are valued for their skills, experience, and unique perspectives. This commitment is embodied in company policy and the way we do business at CEBA and is an important principle of sound business management.

Inclusion goes beyond diversity. All CEBA staff shall be committed to accepting and encouraging different perspectives. Creative solutions to tough problems are fostered by respectful challenging of one anothers thoughts and assumptions. CEBA is committed to being open to a variety of cultural practices and norms. We strive to ever increase our understanding and unveil our unconscious biases so we can counteract them.

Achieving CEBAs vision of a resilient, zero-carbon energy system requires creative problem-solving and a wide range of perspectives; CEBA knows that diversity not only makes our organization stronger, but also is foundational to our mission success.

About Clean Energy Buyers Alliance:

Together, the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA) and the Clean Energy Buyers Institute (CEBI) form the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance, and share a collective vision of customer-driven clean energy for all. The Alliance is an inclusive community of energy customers, clean energy providers, service providers, NGOs, philanthropies, and clean energy thought-leaders. Our aspiration is to achieve a 90% carbon-free U.S. electricity system by 2030 and to cultivate a global community of energy customers driving clean energy.

The Clean Energy Buyers Association is a business association with a mission to activate a community of energy customers and partners to deploy market and policy solutions for a carbon-free energy system. The Clean Energy Buyers Institute is a public benefit charity with a mission dedicated to solving the toughest market and policy barriers to achieving a carbon-free energy system.

Our guiding values and tenets are: we value respect in our treatment of people and the planet; integrity in how we conduct ourselves; service to our mission, stakeholders, and colleagues; and excellence in our programs and work. The core tenets that CEBA strives to foster include: Mission oriented, grounded by strategy, a spirit of partnership inside and outside of CEBA and innovation and entrepreneurship through healthy and respectful discord. We know that diversity is critical to realizing our vision of customer-driven clean energy for all because innovative solutions come from great minds who do not think alike.

CEBA provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, results of genetic testing, caregiver status, and past, present or prospective service in the military in addition to any other protected categories required by state, federal or local regulations. Equal employment opportunity, applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, discipline, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, benefits and training. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.