Program Manager

Program Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 years relevant experience required.
• Microsoft Suite.
• At least 5 years of any combination of management or project management experience.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Project management (individual projects)
• Interpersonal skills
• Communications/influencing
• Negotiation/dispute resolution
• Analytical
• New York State regulatory experience
• Working knowledge of several utility business areas (e.g. Electric Operations, Gas Operations, Customer Service)
• Coaching and mentoring
• Agility, versatility, and flexibility – productive in a multi-tasking and rapidly changing environment
• Program Management (multiple, simultaneous, linked projects)
• Project planning for unique, one-time initiatives
• SharePoint
• Auditing/controls
• Metrics design and development

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership for NYPSC and/or FERC management and operations audits, from audit initiation through completed implementation of audit recommendations; for CEO Certification compliance activities (New York Public Service Law Section 65, Subdivision 15); and for New York regulatory initiatives (e.g., Reforming the Energy Vision).
• Provides or collaborates on the leadership of additional projects and programs as directed by the President’s Office, typically involving multiple utility business areas and/or functions, and often regulatory-driven.
• Prepares plans and budgets for unfamiliar programs and projects and coaches others to do so.
• Monitors progress against plans, metrics, and goals.
• Leads and presents to senior management Steering Committee meetings and parent Company SMEs.
• Coordinates efforts of cross-functional project teams.
• Holds regular program/project status meetings.
• Coaches and guides team members.
• Resolves disputes.
• Develops and documents business processes, protocols, and tools.
• Designs, documents, and conducts executive, team, and Company training, education, and orientations where necessary.
• Works directly with NYPSC (Department of Public Service) Staff and with other New York utilities, representing NYSEG and RG&E.
• Testifies on behalf of NYSEG and RG&E as a rate case witness.
• Some travel to other Avangrid offices and NY Public Service Commission Offices is required.
• Is the lead team member with respect to accomplishing day-to-day goals and provides expertise and immediacy of decision making.
• Holds project team members accountable for results.
• Evaluates and summarizes documents for regulatory, policy, strategy, and business implications, including but not limited to Company documents, interview notes, regulatory filings, NYPSC interrogatories, orders, and reports.
• Produces PowerPoint presentations, Word reports and regulatory filings, and Excel analyses.
• Develops and maintains SharePoint sites.
• Provides linkage to executives for decision making outside of day-to-day program/project team activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• It is preferred that for this job, the candidate fulfills the requirements in terms of levels indicated below.
• 1. Delivering for the Business:
• • Global view of the Business – Advanced
• • Achieving Results and Continuous Improvements – Advanced
• • Initiative – Advanced
• • Innovation & Creativity – Competent
• 2. Global Relationships:
• • Flexibility & Globalization – Advanced
• • Customer Focus – Advanced
• • Communicating & Influencing – Advanced
• • Team Work – Advanced
• 3. Managing People:
• • Team Management – Advanced
• • Developing Others – Advanced
• • Developing Others – Advanced