Manager, Regulatory Policy

About the Coalition

The Building Decarbonization Coalition (BDC) aligns building industry stakeholders with energy providers, environmental organizations, and local governments to help electrify homes and workspaces with clean energy. Through convening, policy analysis, and consumer awareness building, the Coalition is pursuing fast, fair action to accelerate the development of zero-emission homes and buildings that will help cut one of the largest sources of climate pollution, while creating safe, healthy, and affordable communities.

Position Summary

BDC is bringing together building decarbonization advocates in the leading states of California and New York and across a broader set of states to co-create a common approach to phasing out gas appliances in a way that policymakers, manufacturers, organized labor, and environmental justice groups will support. Together, the states we are targeting represent 60% of the U.S. gas demand in buildings.

This newly created position will support BDC’s vision and play a key role in advancing our work across the U.S. including, as currently conceptualized, analyzing differing regulatory approaches and distilling them into best practices and model regulatory language. Specifically, this position is responsible for:

Essential Functions

Strategy Development & Implementation Leadership

• Lead work collecting and reviewing existing examples, draft model language, and (outside of CA and NY) provide feedback on proposed regulatory language.
• Coordinate with New York, California, and other in-state leads to learn from and, as appropriate, build on their policy efforts to inform best practices and model regulatory language.
• Identify and implement regulatory solutions that lift up the most vulnerable communities while simultaneously lifting up market leaders.
• Track and support BDC partners and members in pertinent and priority regulatory efforts.
• Partner with national and regional experts to deliver energy regulator education on a variety of topics, likely to include obligation to serve, gas transition planning, non-piped alternatives, and all-electric ratemaking.
• Participate actively in the development of the Coalition’s overarching strategic plan for multi-state work.
• Lead work planning and visioning and develop metrics to measure progress toward achieving the key objectives.
• Ensure that BDC’s regulatory materials are equitable and inclusive and drive the overall goals of BDC and the building electrification movement forward.
• Work with the Director of Policy Acceleration to ensure that the planning, fundraising, and development of BDC’s regulatory agenda (outside of CA and NY) moves forward.

Research, Analysis & Technical Assistance

• Help establish BDC as the go-to resource for regulators, policymakers, coalition members and other stakeholders.
• Assist the Director of Policy Acceleration in developing best practices and model regulation in support of building decarbonization.
• Be a point person on regulatory education and communication with policymakers and regulators where BDC does not have a state-specific lead, including developing strong relationships, identifying opportunities and priorities, and in coalition with others to move the Coalition’s regulatory agenda forward in those states.
• Serve as a regulatory policy resource for BDCs campaigns and ensure campaigns are coordinated and fully embedded into other BDC priorities.
• Convene and facilitate meetings and working groups with NGOs, equity groups, financing experts, affordable housing advocates, ratepayer and consumer groups, manufacturers, business organizations and associations, regulators, and others regularly to develop relationships and strengthen networks in order to address barriers to building decarbonization. Assess and advise on necessary administrative and regulatory action to remove barriers to implementation of climate and equity targets as defined by states as assigned.
• Manage contractors, produce and oversee the productions of reports, research, studies, regulatory filings, and other documents to advance BDC’s policy and regulatory agenda.

Skills & Qualifications

• Demonstrated 5-7 years experience with administrative dockets and successfully influencing regulatory policy.
• Proven understanding of public policy making and regulatory environments and success in influencing policy agendas and outcomes at the state level.
• Demonstrated experience and a solid understanding of building electrification, power sector, and/or climate legal, policy and regulatory solutions.
• Excellent research, writing, analytical and oral advocacy skills are essential.
• Outstanding leadership, consensus and relationship-building skills with clarity of vision and a commitment to the highest levels of integrity, quality and collaboration.
• Exceptional project management skills and a high degree of emotional intelligence to support consensus building and collaboration between and among diverse stakeholders who may possess divergent viewpoints and agendas is a must.
• Ability to set clear priorities, and keen analytic, organizational and problem-solving skills that enable sound decision-making.
• Diplomacy, political savvy, analytical skills, exceptional coalition building skills and the ability to communicate, work effectively and build consensus among a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly collaborative work style with the ability to operate as a peer and thought partner to the Director of Policy Acceleration, BDC’s state directors, and other members of the BDC team.
• Ability and willingness to travel on occasion.
• Entrepreneurial drive to build a program from the ground up; start-up experience is a benefit.
• Experience working for and/or directly working with utility regulators is strongly desired.
• Advanced degree, JD and license to practice law in one or more states is strongly desired.

Work Environment, Schedule, & Travel

This is a remote position. Some travel will be required, including at least one week long team retreat per year, consistent with Covid-related health and safety guidelines.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is a remote, full-time, salaried position with comprehensive benefits. Typical work hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM or 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM in whichever time zone the Manager resides.

Commitment to Equal Employment

The BDC values diversity in all its forms and is committed to an inclusive and transparent recruitment process. We recruit and hire without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity, age, religion, creed, disability (actual or perceived), medical condition including genetic characteristics, marital status, domestic partnership status, citizenship, military service, height, weight, HIV/AIDS status, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law or local ordinance. BIPOC and people of diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $100,000 – $120,000 commensurate with experience, plus a competitive benefits package including paid health insurance coverage, retirement benefits with company matching, unlimited flexible paid leave, 12 paid holidays, access to professional development resources, and much more.

Disclaimer

The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

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