Duties

• Establish, implement, and support procedures for efficient management of work. Consult with the Deputy Directors on a regular basis. Communicate roles and responsibilities between junior and senior analysts, direct management team, and director, as well as supporting divisions such as the AG's office. Manages workload and identify priorities for direct reports.
• Provide guidance and recommendations to Deputy Director(s) and Director on proposed strategic plans, change management, relationship of strategic plans to broader agency goals, key regulator and industry trends, and the identification of the mission, purpose, and priorities of the section.
• Review written work products (such as memos, presentations, or testimony) to ensure staff adhere to fundamental tenets of professional writing, such as clarity, conciseness, and coherence, and public speaking. Help ensure products accurately represent policy, legal, and regulatory foundations, and context. Explain detailed accounting, economics, or other technical concepts.
• Lead a staff team and prioritize key issues. Work with the Deputy Director to assign matters to staff, work with the assigned attorney, serve as the point of contact on the case, ensure team members are apprised of significant issues or events, provide quality control on analytical and written deliverables, ensure consistency across staff positions, and write testimony, including summarizing staff's position or overarching policy.
• Lead a rulemaking team drafting administrative rules to implement new legislation, to streamline or improve existing administrative procedures, or to eliminate or replace outdated processes.
• Lead a complex and specialized staff investigation concerning utility business practice or potentially problematic regulatory issue that requires expert knowledge of a specialized topic, quantify the fiscal impact of the practice or issue. Identify the root cause of the issue and recommend resolution through a specific course of action to appropriate decision maker.
• Provide the Commission with objective recommendations on highly complex, politically sensitive, or impactful issues in formal adjudications. Defend staff's positions against cross examination by opposing counsel. Exercises independent judgment and professional responsibility when formulating and making recommendations about ratemaking and regulatory policies and positions in both formal and informal proceedings before the Commission.

• Works with staff to identify new and emerging issues, planning, policy, or regulatory standards.
• Interacts with internal managers, internal regulatory analysts, Commissioners and their policy advisors, administrative law judges, and various groups.
• Responds to high priority information requests in a timely manner. Provides responsive materials for Media Requests, Requests for Public Records, and other high priority requests. Prepares fiscal notes, detailing how a proposed bill would affect the agency's workload. Provides information and process guidance to utilities, utility customers, and other persons or parties.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree involving a major study in economics, financial accounting, business administration, or other related field. (Professional experience working in economics, financial accounting, business administration or utility regulation will substitute year for year for education).
• Five (5) years of experience performing professional level research and analysis with an institution primarily engaged in regulatory matters or utility business operations. (A master’s degree in a field directly applicable to public utility regulation will substitute for up to one year of experience).
• Demonstrated experience in leading large, complex teams or projects, either in a supervisory or non-supervisory capacity.

Position Specific Competencies:

• Expertise in Regulatory Theory and Ratemaking Standards and Policy - Has extensive knowledge of applicable State and federal laws, Commission rules, regulations, policies, standards, and precedents, regulatory theory and principles, and the economic framework in which regulated companies operate. Has a demonstrated ability to develop positions and recommendations in accordance with relevant legal precedent and policy standards. Can examine, communicate, and teach complex regulatory and ratemaking concepts in an effective and accessible manner.
• Organizational Management - Possesses ability to manage limited resources efficiently, demonstrating an ability to identify and mobilize resources to fulfill key objectives, plan to ensure the best use of available capacity, and develop processes to improve performance and efficiency; Possesses effective personnel management skills, demonstrating interpersonal understanding, an ability to encourage, coach, and support individuals, communicate proactively, promote professional development, articulate key expectations, evaluate employee performance, and encourage teamwork and cooperation.
• Leadership - Leads by example, demonstrating professional conduct at all times, exhibiting balance and fair handedness in considering various perspectives, maintaining composure and level-headedness in difficult situations, and engaging with others in a courteous, considerate, and respectful manner; Demonstrates emotional intelligence and intellectual humility; Demonstrates critical thinking and tactical execution; Pursues compromise and collaboration; Actively engages in section strategic planning exercises and critical examinations of the section's business processes; Listens carefully and helps others to understand the merits of opposing arguments.
• Project Management - Plans, designs, organizes, and executes the work of an individual or team project, ensuring a high-quality work product within specific time constraints. Identifies and communicates goals, key deliverables and criteria for success. Outlines responsibilities and resource requirements, organizes tasks and establishes meaningful timelines. Regularly monitors progress and takes corrective action where necessary. Provides leadership, building and managing interpersonal relationships to ensure project success; demonstrates personal accountability and commitment to the success of a project.
• Analytical Skills and Critical Thinking - Formulates judgments on complex issues through the identification, organization, and analysis of factual evidence and quantitative data; Reaches unbiased conclusions through logical reasoning and analytical objectivity; Maintains skepticism of unsupported claims and reliably identifies fallacious logic; Distinguishes information that is not pertinent to a decision or solution.
• Professional Writing and Communication - Writes clearly, concisely, and coherently, using organized thought and logically reasoned arguments; Effectively translates complex technical concepts into messages non-technical audiences can readily grasp; Listens carefully, reflects upon what is being said, and responds appropriately; Presents information clearly, accurately and in an audience-specific manner.
• Professional Conduct - Takes responsibility for actions; Is courteous, considerate and respectful at all times in all interactions with coworkers, interactions with coworkers, utility representatives and other parties with whom we interact; Maintains cordial relations with coworkers; Exercises self-awareness, recognizing and controlling behavior that is disrespectful, aggressive, unnecessarily argumentative or overly confrontational; Sets aside personal differences to complete work as part of a team; Respects the point of view of others and approaches disagreements with patience, tact and good will.

Supplemental Information

• Letter of Interest describing how you meet the position qualifications and why you believe you are the ideal candidate.
• Resume detailing your applicable experience and education.
• References: At least three (3) professional references with current telephone numbers and email addresses; one (1) contact MUST be your current or most recent supervisor.

• This position is exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
• Carefully review your application and any requested attachments for accuracy, spelling, and grammar before submitting.