Head of Regulatory

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Supervise the regulatory team and facilitate weekly Regulatory Team meetings

• Participate as a member of the executive leadership team, offering advice on regulatory matters, opportunities, developments, and strategies

• Provide mentorship to junior team members while spearheading future recruitment and hiring efforts

• Establish scopes for and direct Senior Advisors and regulatory consultants

• Create and consistently update PowerLines’ annual regulatory strategy, team goals, OKRs, and internal calendar

• Implement regulatory engagement strategies for rate cases, integrated resource plan proceedings, and rulemaking dockets

• Direct the engagement strategy, including media and public interactions, while ensuring compliance with procedural and ex parte regulations

• Make final decisions regarding docket prioritization, engagement strategies, filings, and testimony within the sanctioned strategy

• Oversee engagement with the Policy Team on utility regulatory rulemaking opportunities

• Evaluate federal utility regulatory proceedings, including FERC dockets and technical conferences, as well as RTO governance and stakeholder processes

• Cultivate a bench of regulatory, technical, and legal experts

• Supervise grant-funded partner intervention and engagement initiatives

• Build bipartisan, multi-sectoral, and cross-customer-class coalitions

• Lead consumer advocacy engagement across multiple states, including a regulatory playbook and case studies database

• Provide technical assistance and strategic advice to partners while conducting utility regulation briefings

• Keep track of regulatory developments and proceedings across the nation

• Oversee the analysis of utility rate increase requests, capital spending plans, and utility earnings calls

• Manage PowerLines’ regulatory products, including its docket and utility bill dashboard

• Draft written communications, testimony, and thought leadership pieces

• Collaborate with Policy, Communications, and Chief of Staff teams on regulatory priorities and deliverables

• Represent PowerLines to commissioners, commission staff, intervenors, consumer advocates, policymakers, journalists, and media outlets

• Assist in fundraising proposals and reporting

• Monitor regulatory achievements and participate in relevant events and conferences

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in utility regulation, ideally from a public utilities commission, state consumer advocate office, attorney general office, or issue advocacy background

• Demonstrated success in developing and executing multi-state policy or regulatory initiatives that produced significant outcomes in the public interest

• Extensive understanding of utility regulatory processes across various state jurisdictions, including working knowledge of procedural rules like intervention eligibility, ex parte restrictions, and confidentiality

• Established connections with consumer advocates, public utilities commissions, and regulatory networks

• Profound knowledge of energy and utility policy, including the interaction between utility legislation and regulation

• Proficiency in utility ratemaking and resource planning, including revenue requirements, cost allocation and rate design, integrated resource plans, and utility financial filings

• Experience in managing, mentoring, and developing team members

• Ability to work across the political spectrum while maintaining nonpartisan positions in politically sensitive areas

• Exceptional writing and communication skills, capable of transforming complex policy into clear deliverables for policymakers and representing the organization in a variety of settings

• Comfortable functioning as both a senior strategic leader and a hands-on individual contributor within a small team in a rapidly expanding organization

• Willingness to travel approximately 10 to 20 percent of the time

• Competence in establishing systems and processes in a startup environment

• Familiarity with FERC and RTO governance and stakeholder processes

• Background in state siting and permitting or in the regulatory implementation of grid technology policies

• Experience supporting grant proposals and funder reporting

• Proven ability to build and manage coalitions with diverse partners

• Experience in scoping and managing consultants, lobbyists, and budgets

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO

• Paid holidays

• Health insurance

• 401k employer match

• Sick leave

• Health and wellness benefits