Demand Flexibility Manager

About Silicon Valley Clean Energy

Formed in 2016, Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) is a public Community Choice Energy service provider serving approximately 270,000 residential and commercial customer accounts in thirteen Santa Clara County communities. SVCE’s mission is to provide customers with renewable and carbon-free electricity at competitive rates, and further accelerate decarbonization through deployment of innovative local programs. Key program areas include: building electrification, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, battery storage and demand management programs. Since the organization’s service launch in 2017, SVCE has provided clean to all residential and commercial energy customers in SVCE’s member communities, carbon-free electricity. SVCE has saved its customers more than $90M and dedicated $84M to customer offers, programs and services. SVCE is a joint-powers agency governed by a Board of Directors comprised of an elected official from each of SVCE’s thirteen member communities.

By providing reliable and responsive carbon-free electricity service at competitive rates, SVCE maintains a 96+% customer participation rate and a strong financial foundation. Access to carbon-free electricity has helped our communities take a major step in fighting climate change, reducing local emissions by more than 30% from a 2015 baseline. Yet supplying clean electricity is just the start. It is essential that SVCE continues to proactively engage with our customers and community stakeholders in the electrification journey - helping to inspire, educate, and enable action in transitioning from fossil fuels to clean electricity – in homes, buildings, and transportation.

The SVCE Culture

Achieving SVCE’s ambitious and urgent mission requires a team capable of meeting the tremendous challenges embedded in these goals. SVCE develops and fosters a diverse and talented team that thrives in a dynamic and fast-changing environment. As such, at SVCE we recruit and retain smart, passionate, innovative, and collaborative employees. Company employees contribute, as a team and as individuals, to continuously building and supporting a culture of collaboration and trust. SVCE employees encourage creativity and the free flow of ideas to spur innovation. The workplace environment is adaptable, and technology enabled to drive innovative solutions. SVCE emphasizes focus and prioritization across departments to achieve quality, rather than simply quantity of output. SVCE provides a rewarding workplace experience where productivity can be maintained across a variety of work environments. SVCE provides opportunities for growth, engagement, and support professional and personal development. SVCE offers opportunities that position their people, as well as SVCE, for success.

More information can be found at: www.svcleanenergy.org

About the role

SVCE is launching an ambitious initiative to scale the uptake, management, and responsiveness of flexible loads within our service area. This position will directly support and/or lead the implementation, measurement and valuation of these efforts. At SVCE, demand flexibility encompasses numerous demand-side technologies (e.g. battery storage, electric vehicles, heat pumps), customer segments (residential, small and medium business, C&I) and programmatic structures (rates, incentives, rebates). The Demand Flexibility Manager will manage the implementation of new and innovative programs, helping to generate value for SVCE’s customers as well as the agency.

The initial set of work envisioned for this role is to lead the implementation of systems and programs for a recently launched DERMS platform – and leveraging the platform to build new customer offers and tap into existing SVCE programs to increase the number of connected devices. The role may also lead the implementation of SVCE’s novel affordability- and decarbonization-focused rate pilots (primarily SVCE’s E-ELEC rate) and SVCE’s managed EV charging app. These projects and others will bridge the needs of various stakeholders and SVCE departments. The candidate will help develop and test SVCE’s vision of the future of rates and demand flexibility.

The ideal candidate will bring demonstrated experience in demand side programs and/or rates – ideally with experience in load flexibility and/or demand response – and a familiarity with the regulatory and market structures that shape demand side programs and load flexibility in California. Candidates should be familiar with Community Choice energy, our mission and services. Additionally, candidates should bring an ability to coordinate closely across departments, and an understanding of how different departments and roles intersect with this scope of work.

The Demand Flexibility Manager (job classification: Energy Services Specialist or Senior Energy Services Specialist position (Senior / Energy Services Specialist)) works under the general supervision of the Manager of Energy Services and has responsibility for a wide range of customer service, program management, business development, and technical topics (measurement and verification, product. Responsibilities include contract management, general customer service, responding to customer inquiries, data analyses, and providing presentations to business and community groups related to SVCE offers and services. This role may be hired at the journey or senior level, dependent on qualifications

The Senior / Energy Services Specialist works directly with SVCE contractors, service providers, residential and/or business customers, and community stakeholders via email and telephone, and through in-person and remote meetings and interactions. They are expected to highly knowledgeable in SVCE service offerings, providing customers or other staff with technical explanations of electricity rates, energy programs, and related organizational and operational mechanisms. They work effectively in a highly cross- functional organization, acting simultaneously as a customer advocate, technical specialist, and contract manager.

To be effective, the Demand Flexibility Manager will also need knowledge of PG&E programs and billing mechanisms. Energy Services Specialists will be assigned with tasks related to the development, implementation, and/or administration of various SVCE customer-focused activities and offerings.

The Energy Services Specialist position is the journey level in the Energy Services Specialist series. It requires a moderate degree of responsibility for handling general customer accounts, a broad, general depth of industry and energy-related expertise, customer service experience, program delivery and exposure to operational procedure best practices. The Senior Energy Services Specialist position is differentiated from the Energy Services Specialist position based upon a higher degree of responsibility for handling complex or strategically valuable accounts, organizational and program management skills and expertise, depth of industry and energy-related expertise, customer service experience, program delivery and operational experience

SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED

The Demand Flexibility Manager reports to the Manager of Energy Services and includes supervision of consultants and contractors.

Essential Functions

Customer Offerings

Customer and Community Relations

Project Management

+ Building systems, e.g. HVAC/mechanical, electrical, controls + Solar, NEM and storage + Demand management programs

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Knowledge and experience with:

Ability to:

Ability and Willingness to:

Qualifications

Experience and Training Guidelines:

Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

EDUCATION

+ Environmental science + Operations management + Business/economics + Or closely related field + Other degrees with demonstrable and commensurate work experience that are directly relevant for this position

EXPERIENCE

Some number of years, depending on level, of progressively responsible customer-facing experience with clean energy-related products or services at: an energy services company, corporate/commercial facilities engineering, design, management or consulting company, electric utility, energy or buildings-related department of a public agency, energy products company, or a related organization.

LICENSES/CERTIFICATES

One or more professional certifications (preferred but not required), including, but not limited to

Physical and Working Conditions

The physical and mental 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 to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Environment:

Work is performed in a typical office setting with exposure to computer screens and at public events (fairs, meeting rooms, farmers’ markets, etc.) with moderate noise and will require some evening and weekend work. The noise level in the work environment is usually typical of an office environment and public events.

Location:

This position is hybrid flexible to Sunnyvale, CA.

Physical:

While performing the duties of this class, employees are regularly required to sit, walk, and stand; talk or hear, in person and by telephone; reach with hands and arms. Employees are occasionally required to walk, and stand for prolonged periods; stoop, bend, kneel and twist; and may lift up to twenty pounds. Employees must be able to communicate in person, in writing, and by telephone with Board members, management, co-workers, vendors, consultants, and with the public in face-to-face, one-on-one, and group settings.

Vision:

See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents; and operate assigned equipment.

Hearing:

Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.

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