State Governmental Affairs Manager

Requisition: 82881

PSEG Company: PSEG Services Corp.

Salary Range: $ 133,000 - $ 218,300

Work Location Category: Hybrid Fixed

We’re one of the country’s largest energy companies, with a vision of powering a future where people use less energy, and it’s cleaner, safer and delivered more reliably than ever. We’re also deeply connected to the communities we serve, with more than 13,000 employees working together to support our customers and make a difference every day.

Here, you’ll have the stability and exciting opportunities that come with being a Fortune 500 company — along with a supportive, friendly work environment where your contributions are valued.

We know life isn’t one-size-fits-all, and neither is work. That’s why we offer flexible work options depending on the role.

In support of this model, roles have been categorized into one of three work location categories:

1. Onsite – roles where employees are expected to be onsite daily.

2. Hybrid fixed – roles that are a mix of remote work and onsite work fixed days each week

3. Hybrid flexible – roles that are a mix of remote work and onsite work, but the onsite requirements have greater flexibility. (i.e. 5-8 days a month vs. set days each week).

As an employee, if you are regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week, you will have access to a wide range of comprehensive benefits from day one, designed to support your total well-being: medical, dental, vision, parental leave and family leave programs, behavioral health programs, 401(k) with company match, life insurance, tuition reimbursement, and generous paid time off.

More than 13,000 people already call PSEG their work home, taking pride in providing safe, reliable service to millions of customers. If you’re looking for a place where you can build a meaningful career and help power and support our communities, we’d love to welcome you to the team.

PSEG is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Job Summary

This is an internal-facing position that enhances state and federal regulatory and legislative advocacy efforts by:

- Working with SGA and federal advocacy leads to develop compelling persuasion arguments on our key issues that will resonate with key external audiences, including the public policy decision-makers and influencers that affect PSEG’s business. The position will develop arguments solidly backed up with facts, which may be elicited from internal subject matter experts, external consultants/firms hired to perform certain analyses, our internal business plans, regulatory filings, and financial or investor information.

- Supporting the state and federal advocacy efforts by producing deliverables for different external stakeholder audiences, including power point slide decks, graphics, white papers, position papers, summaries or other written materials designed to simplify complex material for external audiences.

- Supporting the ESG governance aspect of PSEG’s stakeholder engagement by managing a cross-functional stakeholder engagement council of key relationship managers across the Enterprise, with the goal of coordinating our identification of important stakeholders, engagement channels and approaches, key issues, opportunities and trouble spots.

Job Responsibilities

- Work with federal and state advocacy leads to formulate substantive arguments to build stakeholder support for PSEG’s policy agenda, legislative/regulatory outcomes or investments.

- Create deliverables that can be used with external audiences by federal and state government affairs colleagues.

- Gather the supporting information to bolster our persuasion effort; This can include managing external consultants or academics retained to provide expertise, engaging with PSEG subject matter experts on tax, finance, business operations, or other disciplines, absorbing written products either generated by PSEG such as the PSEG business plan, regulatory filings, pleadings, investor materials, or other studies and reports by external stakeholders or organizations

- Support effort to close the ESG gap related to systemic stakeholder engagement by coordinating an Enterprise-wide team of relationship managers, and overseeing the decentralized effort to catalog critical stakeholders, engagement approaches, issues of interest, opportunities and trouble spots in our engagement with important external stakeholders.

Job Specific Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree, BA or BS or equivalent experience, an advanced degree such as an MBA, MPP or MS is preferred.

- A Minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience working with government relations, advocacy, stakeholder engagement, or issue management.

- An ability to quickly grasp policy and political issues facing PSEG.

- Strong written and verbal communications skills, ability to translate complex topics for diverse external audiences.

- Strong political instincts, ability to understand the elements of effective persuasion in the public policy arena.

- Keen attention to detail.

- Ability to create compelling graphics, charts, visuals, tables; use of Power Point, Excel and other tools.

- Ability to communicate complex information clearly in writing and in oral presentations to a range of audiences.

- Ability to run meetings, be assertive in seeking answers to challenging questions that face us as we try to advance and protect PSEG’s interests in the public policy arena

Desired

- Expertise and Proven ability to compellingly translate data and concepts graphically through Power Point, Excel, and other tools.

- Familiarity with modeling concepts, and SWOT analysis, Stakeholder Mapping.

Some positions at PSEG require access to information covered by the Department of Energy’s regulation 10 CFR 810 (Part 810). If applicable, the successful applicant must prove they are: (1) a citizen or national of the USA; OR (2) a lawful permanent resident of the United States (Non-Conditional Permanent I-551 / Green Card / Permanent Resident Card holder); OR (3) a citizen, national, or permanent resident of a “Generally Authorized” destination on the attached list not also a citizen, national, permanent resident of any country not listed; OR (4) a “Protected Individual” under the Immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3)).

As an employee of PSEG, you should be aware that during storm restoration efforts, you may be required to perform functions outside of your routine duties and on a schedule that may be different from normal operations.

For all roles, PSEG’s drug and alcohol testing program includes pre-employment testing, testing for cause, and post-incident/accident testing.

Employees who are hired or transfer into a federally regulated role (including positions covered by USDOT, PHMSA, or NRC regulations) are subject to random drug and alcohol testing, inclusive of marijuana. Although numerous states throughout the country have legalized marijuana/cannabis products recreationally and medically, the use of these products are prohibited for employees in federally regulated roles. Please note that the use of CBD products may result in a positive drug test for THC/Marijuana and such use is not a legitimate medical explanation for a positive result.

If you are a current PSEG Long Island (PSEGLI) employee and offered an opportunity with PSEG or any of its subsidiaries other than PSEGLI, you will be treated as a new hire. Please note that as a new hire to PSEG, your benefits will change and generally will be consistent with other similarly situated PSEG new hires. Similarly, for PSEG employees who accept job opportunities with PSEGLI, your benefits will change and generally be consistent with other similarly situated new hires of PSEGLI.

PSEG is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment, including the hiring process, based on any legally protected characteristic. Legally protected characteristics include race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law in locations where PSEG employs individuals.

PSEG is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need assistance applying for a position, please call 973-430-3845 or email accommodations@pseg.com.

If you need to request a reasonable accommodation to perform the essential functions of the job, email accommodations@pseg.com. Any information provided regarding a disability will be kept strictly confidential and will not be shared with anyone involved in making a hiring decision.

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