ul>Own a core body of work within CEP’s electricity portfolio, including setting priorities, managing timelines, and ensuring delivery of high-quality outputs;
Conduct and oversee in-depth research on policies to reform electricity markets, regulation, utility cost recovery, and transmission financing, with a focus on advancing electricity affordability;
Author high-impact written reports, memos, and other products that influence the public discourse and advance center-left policies to promote electricity affordability;
Develop a work plan, with input from supervisor, to set objectives for and contribute to CEP’s electricity portfolio as well as strategies, products, events, and other resources to advance those objectives;
Collaborate with fellow NGOs and with regulatory, utility, and other electricity sector stakeholders to identify policy needs and build consensus around proposals to meet them;
Manage relationships with key contacts from across the government—including Congressional offices, FERC, DOE, other relevant federal agencies, and state governments—to stay current on policy developments, advocate for center-left electricity policy solutions, and advise on effective policy implementation;
Collaborate with colleagues across the Climate and Energy Program to ensure policy proposals, products, and advocacy plans are coordinated for maximum impact;
Manage and coordinate contracts with consultants covering electricity workstreams outside the advisor’s core expertise;
Represent Third Way in relevant meetings, working groups, congressional briefings, and public speaking engagements on electricity policy.
A strong understanding of electricity policy needs and solutions in one or more of the following areas: electricity markets and wholesale market design, federal and state electricity regulation (including the Federal Power Act, PURPA, and RTO/ISO proceedings), power sector economics and financing, transmission and distribution development, utility business model and cost recovery reform, and the data center and electricity nexus;
At least three years of experience in electricity policy, power markets, utility regulatory practice, energy economics, transmission and distribution, or a closely related field—including experience at or engaging with FERC, a state public utility commission, an RTO or ISO, a utility, a transmission developer, a research institution, or an advocacy organization;
An ability to write clearly and persuasively on complex electricity policy topics for an audience of non-experts, including through reports, memos, and op-eds;
An ability to work independently to identify opportunities to advance Third Way’s electricity policy goals, and to proactively surface new ideas to senior leadership;
Experience with policy advocacy, including through public presentations, congressional briefings, direct outreach to policymakers, and press engagement;
Experience developing and executing impactful strategies to achieve near-term and multi-year objectives;
Passion for center-left policymaking and a genuine belief that smart electricity policy is essential to delivering an affordable, reliable, and clean energy future.