Senior Associate, Utility Ratemaking – Carbon-Free Electricity Program

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $84k - $103k / year

⏰ Full Time

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RMI

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1982

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

⚡ Energy

💰 Grant on 2022-03

Consulting • Healthcare • Energy

RMI is a company dedicated to transforming the global energy system to ensure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future. It identifies interventions and scales transformative changes in the energy system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% by 2030. RMI's work includes various initiatives like carbon-free buildings, electricity, and transportation, as well as international programs targeting climate finance and intelligence, urban transformation, and technology innovation. The company focuses on impactful solutions for energy security and sustainability globally.

📋 Description

• Lead and contribute to research and analysis on utility cost allocation, ratemaking, and related regulatory issues • Review utility filings, commission orders, stakeholder comments, legislation, and other relevant sources • Translate regulatory and policy developments into structured analytical questions, assumptions, scenarios, and sensitivities • Conduct or contribute to quantitative analysis with quantitative modelers and subject-matter experts • Evaluate assumptions, interpret results, and communicate decision-relevant findings, limitations, and tradeoffs • Independently manage assigned research and analytical workstreams, including planning, coordination, first drafts, meeting preparation, and follow-through • Identify gaps, risks, and strategic questions requiring project leadership attention • Support engagements with regulators, commission staff, consumer advocates, utilities, policymakers, and other stakeholders • Develop briefing materials, synthesize perspectives, document decisions and next steps, and lead selected discussions with senior guidance • Use project management techniques to ensure high-quality and timely project deliverables • Report to a Manager in RMI’s Electricity Program

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience in utility regulation, ratemaking, energy consulting, utility finance or planning, consumer advocacy, public policy, law, or quantitative analysis relevant to the electricity sector • Excellent time management, organization, entrepreneurship, and drive • Demonstrated track record of independently owning substantial tasks or workstreams in a project-based environment • Quantitative fluency and comfort working with financial and ratemaking analyses • Ability to structure calculations, evaluate assumptions, conduct scenario or sensitivity analysis, and interpret results • Strong grounding in utility cost allocation, including familiarity with cost-of-service analysis, allocation methods, customer impacts, and relevant regulatory tradeoffs • Ability to review and synthesize complex regulatory filings, commission decisions, stakeholder proposals, technical studies, and related materials • Ability to translate regulatory and policy questions into structured research and analytical approaches • Quantitative fluency and comfort working with spreadsheets, financial or ratemaking analyses, and model outputs • Ability to assess assumptions and interpret analytical results; advanced model-building expertise is not required • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Strong organization, judgment, attention to detail, and follow-through • Current, independent authorization to work in the U.S. without present or future sponsorship from RMI • Preferred: Direct experience in the electric utility industry, consulting, or electric regulatory agencies • Preferred: Experience with utilities, regional grid operators, regulators, commission staff, consumer advocates, distributed-energy-resource providers, community-based organizations, policymakers, or other electricity-sector stakeholders • Preferred: Expertise in utility finance and accounting, revenue requirements, cost allocation, cost-of-service analysis, rate design, distribution system planning, grid modernization, distributed energy resources, or inclusive regulatory process design • Preferred: Ability to travel 10–20% • Preferred: Excellent work references

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision insurance • 403b retirement match with immediate vesting • Group life, AD&D, and short- and long-term disability • Optional voluntary life, AD&D and accident plans • Health savings or flexible spending accounts • Fertility and hormonal health support • Mental health and wellness support • Comprehensive leaves of absence, including generous parental leave • Generous paid time off and sick leave • Paid sabbatical leave • Regional holidays with at least one extended break in each geography • Work from home and home technology allowances • Learning & development opportunities, including LinkedIn Learning and an annual individual professional development budget • Annual bonus target of 5% • Merit-based increases • Discount marketplace, including gym memberships and pet insurance • Hybrid / remote work options • Team retreats and geographic meetups • Rewards and recognition programs • Travel costs covered for occasional in-person meetings