Full-Time Manager, Policy Development

Under the general direction of the Director, manages the day-to-day operations and staff responsible for market policy development in the area of demand response and distributed energy resources.

Builds and maintains relationships with stakeholders to ensure concerns are addressed through the stakeholder process.

Provides technical, analytical and policy leadership to assigned policy development team. Ensures high quality policy papers are developed that address market design issues.

Collaborates with Market Strategy and Governance team to develop board content.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Manages the day-to-day oversight for Market Policy Development operations and staff.
• Works in a team environment to develop market design proposals to evolve the CAISO’s day-ahead and real-time markets.
• Performs frequent outreach to stakeholders to understand market design policy concerns and business needs.
• Provide technical, analytical and policy leadership to the policy development team, other sector managers, and other ISO business units as appropriate.
• Works with the Market Strategy and Governance team to develop board memorandums and presentations that clearly and concisely explain ISO market design policy proposals.

Level of Education and Discipline: A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent education, training or experience in Economics, Engineering, Law, Public Policy, Computer Science or Business. Master’s Degree preferred.

Amount of Experience: Equivalent years of education and training, plus ten (10) or more years related experience, including five (5) years at lead level or equivalent.

Type of Experience: Experience required in a combination of the following: experience as an industry expert in demand response, distributed energy resources, and demand flexibility; utility/power industry or regulatory, preferably in a similar ISO; experience in market design and system analysis; regulatory, economic analyses, and data analyses experience; experience with real-time applications, software tools and PC based applications. Knowledge of economics, market design, finance, and programming concepts desirable. Extensive knowledge of advanced power system operations, electric dispatch and optimization techniques, California power transmission networks, or network modeling is desirable. Demonstrated capability to lead large analytical or economic projects involving various groups of specialists and stakeholders. Demonstrated ability in complex problem solving in the electric utility industry and ability to identify solutions to complex engineering/economic problems. Demonstrated experience supervising professional staff.

Additional Skills and Abilities: Ability to think strategically and devise solutions to problems in keeping with multiple considerations. Excellent leadership and management abilities with experience coaching and developing others. Must demonstrate sound judgment and critical thinking when making decisions. Must be able to work effectively in a team environment as team leader, facilitator and team member. Strong analytical and quantitative skills required. Excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills required, including the ability to effectively communicate complex materials and concepts. Must be able to handle a dynamic and changing work environment, and work well independently.

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