The posting
Job Description
The Deputy of Markets Policy is responsible for advocating for Tri-State in regional organized wholesale energy market forums, and preparing policy positions on organized wholesale energy market tariff, protocol, and business practice changes and initiatives, directly working with Tri-State leaders and staff. Taking the lead role for the Energy Management department on monitoring and disseminating information on organized wholesale energy market activity and developing recommended policy positions for Tri-State leadership consideration. This role will be capable of directly offloading high-level work streams from current Energy Management Vice Presidents and Senior Manager staff. The successful candidate will work closely with other Energy Management department leaders to manage and support organized market, regulatory, corporate, and member program efforts.
Tri-State recognizes the value of a highly-engaged and committed workforce and provides an excellent benefits program that includes: Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Tuition Reimbursement, Flexible Work Schedules including compressed work week and telecommuting opportunities to work remotely up to 40%, Life Insurance, 401K, Long Term Disability (LTD), Short Term Disability (STD), Employee Assistant Program (EAP) and Paid Leave Benefits.
Deputy of Markets Policy Hiring Salary Range: $139,000-180,000
Actual compensation offer to candidate may vary outside of the posted hiring salary range based upon work experience, education, and/or skill level.
Responsibilities
- Prepare recommendations on market strategies and objectives that align to Tri-State’s goals, and present recommendations to Energy Management department leadership and other internal stakeholders.
- Promote Tri-State positions and objectives in forums before market committees, working groups, and task forces in a respectable and influential manner.
- Attend and participate in the SPP RTO, Markets+, EDAM, and other organized market committees, working groups, and task force meetings, including supporting Tri-State voting representatives and sector representatives with decisions related to voting within various policy groups in RTOs.; and report the on-going developments to internal stakeholders.
- Actively maintain good working relationships with the market staff and market participants to efficiently resolve market policy issues.
- Collaborate with Tri-State’s legal and regulatory teams to monitor, analyze, and participate as necessary in market provider’s transmission tariff filings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and FERC's proposed rulemakings and technical conferences related to organized wholesale markets, to protect Tri-State’s interests regarding transmission and energy market policies.
OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Maintain compliance with all company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements, ensuring continuous, reliable electric service.
- Attain knowledge and remain knowledgeable of development in regulations, laws, standards and best practices applicable to the functional area including, but not limited to, Standards of Conduct, Environmental, Employment Law, NERC Reliability Standards and Safety. Must be familiar with, and comply with, all aspects of Corporate Policy C-54, Compliance.
- Demonstrate behavior consistent with Tri-State’s culture embodied in the Cooperative principles and spirit and core values of technical competency, respect and dignity, accountability, integrity, trustworthiness, and servant leadership to empower or otherwise enable others to optimally perform their job responsibilities.
- Demonstrate and promote ethics and behaviors consistent with Tri-State’s culture, Board policies, and business practices. Understand and fulfill the role and responsibility for all compliance programs within the company.
- Because Tri-State is an electric utility with continuous service obligations to its customers, regular, reliable and predictable performance of the essential functions and responsibilities is an essential function of the job.
- Because Tri-State has an obligation to provide continuous, reliable electric service to its customers, the ability to work overtime at any time of the day or week is considered an essential function of the job.
- Perform other related duties as assigned, contributing to Tri-State’s mission of providing reliable, affordable, and responsible electricity.
Qualifications
- Markets Knowledge: Demonstrated understanding of organized wholesale energy market structures, State/Federal utility regulations, and transmission/market provider tariffs.
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to identify functional area business needs, establish goals, objectives, and project timelines, and ensure alignment with enterprise goals.
- Planning: Remain aware of changing industry conditions including primarily the effects of organized market policy and developments, and FERC requirements; and be capable of developing conceptual and technical solutions.
- Management/Supervision: Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities across projects and programs and work cooperatively with leadership and staff to meet project and program objectives at a rigorous pace and volume.
- Time management: Coordinate the efforts and contributions of internal and external resources to develop overall solutions involving multi-faceted economic, technical and operational considerations.
- Demonstrate behavior consistent with company values.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to write reports, draft position papers and policy recommendations, and work clearly and effectively with internal and external legal staff.
- Excellent presentation skills are required for communication of market policy positions and initiative results to internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to analyze problems and develop effective solutions at both strategic and functional levels while incorporating an understanding of impacts on the overall business.
- Strong team player with the ability to work in a matrix organization.
REQUIRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Training:
- BS/BA in Project Management, Engineering, Business, Public Administration, or related discipline, or equivalent combination of experience and education.
Knowledge, Skills, and Ability:
- Proven experience in leading, supervising and managing complex projects within cross-functional teams.
- Ability to analyze complex regulatory, financial and technical information and to develop related solutions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to serve as a liaison between multiple departments and external stakeholders.
- General knowledge of regional markets, power supply resources, and transmission systems, including the effects of developing organized markets.
- Working knowledge of power systems and generation economic modeling.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships, both internal and external.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbal and written.
Other:
- Willingness to travel (< 10%) when needed to attend training, conferences and meetings. (Must possess a valid driver’s license.)
DESIRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- Five (5) or more years of experience in organized wholesale power markets and/or managing complex, deadline-driven projects or initiatives with a diverse set of stakeholders.
- Basic understanding of utility tariffs for programs and rates.
- Basic working understanding of Robert’s Rules of Order.
- Experience working with organization boards and/or committees.
About Us
Tri-State is a wholesale power supply cooperative, operating on a not-for-profit basis, with electric distribution cooperatives and public power district members in four states: Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming. Together with its members, Tri-State delivers reliable, affordable and responsible power and energy services to nearly a million electricity consumers across roughly 200,000 square miles of the West.
Founded in 1952 by its member systems to provide a reliable, cost-based supply of electricity, Tri-State is now headquartered in Westminster, Colo., employing approximately 1,000 people across five states.
Tri-State's electricity is generated from coal, natural gas, hydropower, wind, and solar. This power reaches members via a transmission system that includes substation facilities, telecommunications sites and almost 6,000 miles of high voltage transmission lines.
As a member-owned and -governed cooperative, every member has a voice and an equal vote in the future of Tri-State.
