NRRI Research Leadership Positions:

Electricity Expert
Utility Performance, Energy Efficiency, Renewables, Rate Design, Smart Grid
Knowledge Center Manager

Eastern Interconnection States’ Planning Council Positions:

Director
Economist
Electrical Engineer
 

NRRI Research Leadership Positions:

Electricity Expert

NRRI's mission is to provide state utility commissions with the research services necessary to achieve utility regulation of the highest possible quality. This mission requires four types of work: (a) identifying unsolved regulatory challenges, (b) creating the new knowledge necessary to meet those challenges, (c) democratizing access to existing knowledge, and (d) stimulating discussion on principles of high quality regulation.

We are seeking expressions of interest from top electricity experts committed to these objectives. Successful candidates will work directly with regulatory decisionmakers to design and carry out research projects addressing the electricity industry.

Requirements

1. Expert knowledge in the electric industry, evidenced by publications or testimony, demonstrating fluency in—

   a. the industry's history, in terms of market structure, economic and engineering developments, and legislative and regulatory intervention;

   b. the challenges facing state and federal regulators; and

   c. regulatory policy and process, including (i) techniques for regulating companies in the context of a franchised monopoly, (ii) methods for determining the appropriateness of competition in relevant geographic and product markets, and (iii) the steps necessary to accommodate and ensure effective competition.
    

2. Degrees or other certification in economics, accounting, finance, engineering, law, or public management.

Expressions of interest: Email cover letter and resume, and/or your questions, to Scott Hempling, Executive Director, This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Utility Performance, Energy Efficiency, Renewables, Rate Design, Smart Grid

NRRI is seeking energy policy professionals with top-flight analytical, writing, presentational and leadership skills, to stimulate and advise the utility regulatory community on challenges facing the changing electric industry: utility performance, new generation construction, climate change, efficiency, renewable energy, rate design, regionalization of transmission service, multi-state planning and cost allocation efforts, and the infrastructure necessary to support it.

Responsibilities: .

Educate Commissioners and new staff about the major issue intersection between climate change, alternative energy policy and the regulation of utility performance.

Write accessible, influential, research papers on issues of national import, present those papers at seminars and teleseminars attended by state commissioners and staff, and work directly with commissions to implement recommendations.

Create and lead an on-line community of learners, leaders and collaborators, with a mission of identifying policy challenges and creating solutions regulators can and will use; i.e., solutions transportable to new statutes, orders and rules.

Requirements: Advanced degree in a field relevant to utility regulation (e.g., law, economics, finance, engineering, public management); history of excellence in regulatory analysis, demonstrated by published work and growing responsibilities; willingness to invite and endure public and private peer review with humility and humor; career commitment to objectivity.

Expressions of interest: Email cover letter and resume, or your questions, to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  No phone calls please.

Knowledge Center Manager

NRRI seeks a knowledge center manager with expertise in content management to help launch a collaborative problem-solving online “meeting space” for state regulators and their staffs.

We are looking for someone with a passion for understanding the “knowledge needs” of customers and finding ways to satisfy them. We also need technical skills and experience—particularly with respect to sourcing and cataloging information, managing web-based communities of practice, and negotiating content licenses. This person will wear several hats—planner, negotiator, communicator, cataloger, and researcher.

The ideal candidate will be able to do the following:

• Feed communities with relevant content

• Understand how clients consume information and make decisions about “best” content for each group of users

• Acquire, organize, process, and catalog community knowledge resources

• Act as knowledge broker, information manager, and people connector

• Manage information access/distribution rights

• Make connections and “connect the dots” between knowledge needs, sources, and gaps

• Lead change, be strong-willed and persistent in pursuing objectives

Located near the Metro in Silver Spring, MD, NRRI offers a superior benefits package and a family-friendly work environment. NRRI is an equal-opportunity employer.

Expressions of interest: Email cover letter and resume, or your questions, to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  (put "NRRI Position" in the subject line). No phone calls please.
 

NRRI's mission is to provide state utility commissions with indispensable research services necessary to ensure that utility regulation achieves the highest possible quality. NRRI’s core funding comes from state commissions, whose members make up a majority of its Board. A nonprofit, Section 501(c)(3) organization, NRRI is an equal opportunity employer.