Regulatory Project Manager
Start: ASAP
Duration: 1 years (40 hours per week)
Location: Oakland CA, (hybrid – one day per week onsite beginning in 2025)
Seeking a Regulatory Strategist to lead the development of strategic plans to meet regulatory or internal wildfire risk reduction goals. The role leads to the deployment of processes and tools to track and monitor wildfire mitigation activities.
Responsibilities:
- Lead large and complex cross-functional teams in gathering, drafting, finalizing and providing written and oral responses and testimony in wildfire-related regulatory, legislative and other proceedings, workshops, and hearings. This is a fast-paced, high-impact and high-visibility role that puts this individual right in the center of the company’s vast wildfire mitigation activities.
- Lead and facilitate cross-functional regulatory/legal/LOB teams on all aspects of the assigned programs that are most complex, including review and assist subject matter experts and leadership with development of written and oral responses and testimony, work papers and discovery responses and communication materials in wildfire-related regulatory filing, legislative and other proceedings, workshops, and hearings.
- Lead the development of the annual Wildfire Mitigation Plan, including developing project plan, managing strategic priorities, and coordinating with stakeholders on strategic mitigation activities and analytics/reporting requirements.
- Develop strong and close working relationships with all strategic programs and LOB partners. Utilize knowledge of utility industry practices and/or benchmarks with industry peers to provide insights to teams in support of strategy development.
- Demonstrate program leadership by analyzing regulatory requirements, proposed decisions, or other regulatory filing and provide insight into implications and make recommendations of possible course of action related to comments and/or proposed decisions as a whole.
- Coordinate with LOB partners to meet requirements on assigned programs through written testimony, supporting documentation, and/or development of strategic programs/activities. Anticipate, understand the regulatory impact to work product and proactively raise and address issues with stakeholders.
- Lead peers and partner organizations to develop and implement new and/or improved procedures, processes, controls, and best practices to track and monitor wildfire mitigation activities
- Develop and provide the most appropriate and effective program metrics and reporting, including develop content and format for reports and dashboards to stakeholders and senior leadership team on all aspects of the Community Wildfire Safety Program; Synthesize complex and diverse datasets to facilitate strategic decision-making.
- Lead wildfire risk reduction benchmarking engagements with other utilities, industry groups, government partners and others.
- May lead development of centralized Cloud-based platform for internal work management and database for managing/tracking of written materials for wildfire mitigation activities or special projects
- Work autonomously and serve as a team lead to provide direction to less experienced employees.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree
- 10 years of job related experience
- Previous electric utility experience
- Project and program management experience
- PMP certification
- Regulatory or technical writing experience
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to build trusting relationships to align multiple stakeholders around strategic priorities
- Highly exceptional writing skills, experienced with analyzing complex and technical content and translating into easily digestible content and compelling storytelling for wider audiences.
- Ability to influence leaders inside and outside of the department through data analysis, insights and recommendations
- Strong presentation skills to effectively convey complex issues to internal and external parties of various levels
- Strong analytical and creative problem solving, strategic decision-making ability
