Job Title: Senior Analyst, Innovation Strategy

Salary: $130,000 to $150,000 (commensurate with experience)

Job Type: Full-Time with Benefits

Location: California residency required. We are a remote-first work environment with a strong preference to hire staff within a 100-mile radius of San Mateo County. Employees are expected to attend in-person meetings (generally monthly/quarterly) at our Redwood City office. Other meetings may be required.

About Peninsula Clean Energy

Peninsula Clean Energy is the community choice energy program (known as a "CCA") for San Mateo County and portions of Merced County. Peninsula Clean Energy's customer base includes approximately 310,000 accounts, serving a population of 800,000, with a total electrical load of almost 4 million megawatt-hours.

Our mission is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by expanding access to sustainable and affordable energy solutions. This includes providing cleaner power at lower rates with virtually GHG-free power as its standard power service. We have aggressive decarbonization goals including delivering 100% renewable energy and supporting its service territory in reaching comprehensive decarbonization for transportation and buildings. Peninsula Clean Energy is making significant and growing investments to advance these objectives, providing a full spectrum of programs and pilots to serve the community.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Analyst, Innovation Strategy (IS) is a new position, working under the direction of the Associate Director of Innovation Strategy at Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE) and supports the initial implementation of cross-functional advanced energy initiatives across the organization. Those initiatives can include the early-stage investigation of new areas of work that PCE would like to engage in as well as the pursuit of public funding opportunities to diversify PCE’s revenue streams. The Senior Analyst is also expected to follow cutting-edge energy trends in California to identify emerging trends and investigate potential opportunities for PCE engagement. This is an exciting opportunity to support innovation and engage in emerging areas of work while supporting PCE’s mission of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

This new role will support the Associate Director of Innovation Strategy in all activities related to PCE’s early-stage investigation and initial implementation of advanced energy initiatives that require cross-departmental strategy development and project management. The Innovation Strategy department will lead the initial assessment and rollout of a new energy initiative before ensuring a smooth transition to the implementing department. This role will be responsible for providing content expertise as well as administrative support to the Department head and ensure effective and efficient cross-departmental coordination on initiatives. We are looking for someone who is highly organized, has strong attention to detail, and is able to support activities across multiple projects.

Examples of Duties

• Early-Stage Innovation Projects: Support the Innovation Strategy department head in coordinating the “first 20%” of cross-functional energy initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, opportunity assessment, and internal alignment. A current example is the collaboration on front-of-the-meter distribution resources and the implementation of a new Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS).
• Project Management: Develop and manage workplans, timelines, and resource needs to successfully launch emerging initiatives prior to transition to implementation teams.
• Cross-Departmental Coordination: Facilitate collaboration among PCE departments to ensure alignment on emergent opportunities. Identify roles and responsibilities for cross-departmental participation in new initiatives.
• Public Funding and Revenue Diversification: Identify and assess public funding opportunities to support advanced energy initiatives and diversify revenue streams. Support funding applications both as a subject matter expert (SME) and as the administrative lead. If funding is won, establish processes and procedures to ensure a smooth transition of the project to the implementing team(s).
• Emerging Trends and Energy Expertise: Monitor and analyze trends in the California energy landscape, with a focus on distributed energy resources (DERs), grid-edge technologies, and equitable energy access. Grow into an SME for PCE’s regulatory and legislative teams.
• Strategic Analysis and Reporting: Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis to inform strategic decisions related to emerging energy opportunities. Prepare briefing materials, presentations, and internal reports for executive management, board members, and external stakeholders under the direction of the Department head.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Build and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, including community groups, public agencies, regulators, and vendors.
• Departmental Development: Contribute to the ongoing development of the IS Department’s strategy, processes, and performance metrics.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS

Experience/Education:

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience, preferably in energy program implementation or regulatory advocacy in the energy industry.

• Strong project management skills and a proven ability to support mid-scale projects from initiation to successful completion, delivering measurable outcomes. Skilled in managing competing priorities and ensuring cohesive execution across cross-functional teams.
• Experience with implementing customer energy programs in California
• Knowledge of advanced energy initiatives, particular in the area of DERs and customer-sited energy solutions
• Highly organized, has strong attention to detail, able to support activities across multiple projects and project partners
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with streamlining workflows and improving efficiency.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external partners.
• Comfortable with public speaking and engaging with a diverse range of partners. Ability to explain technical details effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences

Required Knowledge of:

• Principles of electric generation, and in particular renewable energy technologies.
• Knowledge and experience in customer energy programs in California
• Knowledge and experience in any of these areas is a plus: solar systems, energy storage, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, demand response programs, energy efficiency, micro-grids, and other innovative energy technologies.
• Experience working on policy advocacy is a plus
• Mission, goals, policies, and purpose of Peninsula Clean Energy.
• Understanding of the CCA business model

Ability to:

• Exercise sound judgment, creative problem solving, and commercial awareness
• Manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and quickly adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Take responsibility and work independently, as well as coordinate team efforts.
• Be thorough and detail-oriented; demonstrate patience, tact, and courtesy.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with persons encountered during the performance of duties.
• Be comfortable to speak in public and coordinate across a variety of stakeholders across a diverse range of backgrounds.
• Interact professionally and effectively with customers, commercial partners, PCE staff, Community Advisory Committee, and Board of Directors.
• Apply strong writing and editing skills.
• Be part of a team of committed people.
• Comfortable with using basic and intermediate MS Office functions, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and Powerpoint.
• Willing to learn and use various tools and systems (e.g.; CRM tool, Project Mgmt. tool / expense report tool)

SALARY AND BENEFITS

Compensation is commensurate with experience. Peninsula Clean Energy offers a generous benefits package including:

• Individual, family and domestic partner health (medical, dental, vision) insurance
• Retirement and employer matching contributions
• Health and dependent care flex spending account
• Long term disability benefits
• Cell phone and internet stipend for remote work
• Paid parental leave
• Paid vacation

APPLICATION PROCESS

Please include:

• Cover Letter describing your relevant experience for the role
• Resume

We regret that we are unable to sponsor Visas at this time and that no relocation assistance is available.