The Senior Director, Clean Energy Policy (CEP) plays a critical role in shaping the Company’s clean energy policy strategic direction and goal attainment in driving the clean energy transition for our utilities. This role has enterprise responsibility for the development and overall subject matter expert support of clean energy policy, programs, and pilots across our regulated Networks business. This includes leading the development of enterprise clean energy roadmaps for electrification, energy storage, and decarbonization policy, programs, and pilot proposals plus the future utility platform technologies necessary to enable our utilities to become the Distribution System Operator.
The Senior Director oversees a team and collaboratively works across the business leading the identification and implementation of proposals and frameworks to advance the Company’s strategic CEP goals. The Senior Director must develop key business and industry relationships, serve as the regulatory clean energy policy SME during regulatory proceedings, and advocate effectively with stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic direction and oversight for the development of clean energy policy, programs, and pilots and all associated aspects including strategy formation, roadmap development, design, stakeholder engagement, and implementation ensuring alignment with Company and State CEP objectives and goals.
- Collaborate with business area leaders and senior management, to identify business development needs and align with demonstration opportunities and objectives resulting in scaled investment deployment. Lead the overall sponsorship of demonstration project implementation, providing direction and collaborating with business areas to develop properly resourced and skilled project teams needed to effectively execute projects.
- Responsible for leading enterprise future utility platform planning, developing the strategy and plan, in collaboration with Integrated System Planning and Operations, to position Avangrid to be successful in the new role as the Distribution System Operator.
- Align strategies with stakeholder objectives, in collaboration with Integrated System Planning and Operations, to enable and enhance tools, systems and capabilities associated with integrated system planning processes and real time operations to effectively integrate distributed energy resources (DER) and other clean energy technologies.
- Connect customers with new options to manage their energy usage and energy bills, and to be a facilitator of innovation.
- Coordinate and support the furtherance of adopted strategies and interests through multiple Avangrid representatives at various state, regional and federal committees, forums, and agencies.
- Seek out partnerships and new business opportunities with cutting edge and innovative external vendors and organizations that are aligned with Avangrid’s vision and strategies. Solicit partnership opportunities with 3rd party vendors, as needed.
- Partner with Avangrid Corporate Innovation and Iberdrola peers to leverage and enhance global innovation experience and research. Contribute US market and emerging electrification and decarbonization technology experience and insights, promote global information sharing, and align activities into the global emerging technology portfolio.
- Keep abreast of electrification and decarbonization emerging trends, issues, developments and technologies, evolving business and regulatory models, industry advancements in other states/regions, and best practices across the industry. Monitor the progress of the Company, its competition and evolving market/technology trends to ensure that plans are developed proactively, goals and related metrics are established, re-evaluating and adjusting plans as appropriate.
- Develop leadership capabilities and succession planning depth for team and others as a senior leader in the Company.
Required Qualifications:
- 15+ years of relevant experience, with required experience in one or more of the following: energy policy development, regulatory utility processes including testifying, strategy development, demonstration pilot/project design.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Economics, Sustainability or Environmental Studies, Business, or another related field.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- Ability to build effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience leading cross-functional, diverse teams.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters in technical field and/or MBA.
- Experience leading a large geographically dispersed team.
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