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.
• Provides broad direction and guidance, identifies training needs, coaches and gives feedback on employee performance, develops staff performance plans, makes recommendations with respect to the hiring, firing, advancement, promotion or any other change in the status of direct reports, and performs related activities as appropriate.
• Works in a team environment to develop market design proposals to evolve the CAISO’s day-ahead and real-time markets. Review and ensure high quality content of policy papers addressing market design issues.
• Performs frequent outreach to stakeholders to understand market design policy concerns and business needs. Ensures that stakeholder concerns are effectively addressed through the stakeholder process to provide a strong record for board and regulatory approvals.
• 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. 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.

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