This role is an exciting opportunity to lead a small team of highly skilled and experienced individuals in a fast-paced operations environment. This team’s work is at the very core of the Clean Energy Standard and ultimately enables the LSR team to succeed in its mission. This is a new role reporting to the LSR Director of Shared Services and Strategic Initiatives and represents an exciting opportunity to provide leadership in critical aspects of the Clean Energy Standard.

• Lead a team of LSR operations specialists, providing guidance, training and support to ensure the team is well-positioned to provide business operations as a service to the larger LSR program team.
• Oversee the end-to-end process of REC contract settlement ensuring continued accuracy and efficiency.
• Provide forward-looking strategic leadership to ensure the contract settlement process has the resources and business systems needed to scale commensurate with the increasing number of operating generators in the Large-Scale Renewable program portfolio.
• Oversee the continued evolution of NYSERDA’s business systems to track and report relevant programmatic data.
• Provide strategic insights based on data analysis to optimize contract settlements and program performance and further develop tools to monitor key performance indicators.
• Lead the Large-Scale Renewable program’s routine reporting tasks including the CES Annual Report, OPEN-NY data set and yearly administrative funding petition.
• Collaborate with Legal, Finance, Contracts and other relevant internal departments to ensure alignment across all deliverables.
• Work closely with the finance team to establish LSR team budgets, monitor financial performance, and collaborate on quarterly and yearly financial reporting obligations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 8 years’ experience working actively in one or more areas relating to Large Scale Renewables markets
• Degree in Engineering, Data Science, Atmospheric Science, Business Administration or related technical field; and related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience directly related to business process development, database management, real-time data acquisition and screening.
• Project management and leadership skills including the ability to work as a team member, maintain project timelines and budgets.
• A demonstrated record in managing multiple diverse and complex activities simultaneously, delivering on commitments, and operating with speed, accuracy, and strong judgment.
• Ability to quickly identify and drive to the best possible solution when presented with a series of opportunities and constraints.
• Ability to develop, lead, and coach a team to achieve their potential
• Excellent written and oral communication skill, including the ability to build relationships and effectively communicate and influence across all organizational levels.
• The ability to effectively produce materials Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, Project, Tableau and PowerPoint.
• Should be able to present technical presentations to a technical and non-technical business audience.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and accountability.

Additional Qualifications

• Knowledge of renewable energy technologies.
• PMP or similar certification
• Preferred: Master’s degree and 6 years experience in areas such as: utility operations, energy pricing, energy contracting, renewable electricity generation, renewable energy markets, renewable project development, emissions trading and accounting, and clean energy policy.