New York is leading the nation in the fight on global climate change and the transition to a clean energy-powered economy. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (Climate Act) has created the most aggressive climate change goals in the nation and requires an ambitious agenda that blends proven catalysts with innovative approaches while operating across a broader energy arena that is rapidly evolving. New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) is a driving force in realizing this agenda. NYSERDA works with stakeholders that span residents, business owners, developers, community leaders, local government officials, universities, utilities, investors, entrepreneurs, and more, to develop, invest, and foster conditions that:

• Attract the private sector capital investment needed to expand New York’s clean energy economy.
• Overcome barriers to using clean energy at a large-scale in New York.
• Enable New York’s communities and residents to benefit equitably from energy efficiency and renewable energy.
  
  

Job Overview

NYSERDA seeks an individual who is enthusiastic about advancing carbon neutral buildings to join our New Construction team. This interdisciplinary team is part of the Clean and Resilient Buildings unit that engages with both private and public market sectors to increase the adoption of carbon neutral buildings across all sectors in the State (single family, multi-family, commercial, institutional, and industrial). This team provides services for new construction, gut rehab, adaptive change of use, large portfolio owners, and other state agencies and authorities to achieve their decarbonization goals.

The Senior Project Manager will have an integral role in planning, developing and managing interventions and strategies that overcome market barriers, encourage private capital investment and accelerate the scale and penetration of clean energy.

The Senior project Manager will manage the team’s Commercial Sector initiatives including the Building Cleaner Communities Competition program, as well as tasks, projects, and/or stakeholder relationships associated with the teams’ programs and other interventions introduced into the market, as applicable.

The ideal candidate needs to be comfortable working in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment. They will need to enjoy interacting with and seeking feedback from stakeholders, have a high attention to detail and an internal drive to set and achieve personal and team goals. Preferably, this candidate also has experience with multiple customer sectors and an understanding of how they make capital investment decisions and operational improvements. Exposure to carbon neutral program creation and execution is a plus.

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop and implement high-impact interventions to accelerate customer adoption of energy efficiency, electrification, and resilient opportunities across at least the Commercial sector, but possibly multiple sectors, of the built environment.
• Identify Commercial market barriers and opportunities through analysis, research, and industry engagement and develop creative and thoughtful high impact strategies to address them.
• Cultivate and manage productive working relationships with key market actors which may include building owners, property managers, facility operators, architects, engineers, energy service providers, government agencies or contracted support.
• Manage the implementation of at least the Commercial market segment initiatives and lead a continuous process of test-measure-adjust.
• Conduct cost-benefit analysis for programmatic budgets and impacts of interventions using spreadsheet analysis with well-thought-through and documented assumptions.
• Oversee the work of staff, consultants and contractors including writing statements of work, issuing contracts, budgeting, and invoicing.
• Ensure clear communication with the marketplace including program press releases, social media posts, webpages, emails and webinar presentations, including the ability to translate data and technical discussion to a more general audience.
• Coordinate across teams at NYSERDA to advocate for the team’s work and ensure clear communication and smooth coordination.
• Represent programmatic work in a wide variety of public forums.
• Represent NYSERDA at meetings and events with external stakeholders.
• Possess the ability to think strategically in the context of longer-term planning and use data and systems-driven approaches to identify key trends and opportunities
• Possess the ability to stay very organized with time management and planning skills to successfully handle multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines
• Ability to perform all managerial and supervisory responsibilities with demonstrated experience fostering respect, diversity, equity and inclusion across the workforce.
• Contribute to a team culture of openness and collaboration
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relevant experience in building energy efficiency or a related field including 2 years of supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of and insight into building electrification, resiliency, energy management, energy codes, regulatory proceedings, environmental and economic impacts, opportunities, and impediments across at least the Commercial sector.
• Strong understanding of code and policies, building science, engineering, and related construction market issues for residential and commercial building and building systems design and operation.
• Strong understanding of building systems and high efficiency technologies like high performance envelopes, geothermal heat pumps and/or cold climate heat pumps.
• A demonstrated track record of advancing innovative clean energy strategies and policies from concept to implementation; ideally interacting with regulatory bodies/agencies.
• Familiarity with Passive House certification processes and other third-party standards such as LEED, Enterprise Green Communities, ENERGY STAR, WELL, Fitwell, EnerPhit, etc.
• Exemplary program and project management skills with the ability to set priorities, develop and execute on a workplan, balance research, analysis, a stakeholder engagement with pragmatism, and an action-bias to deliver activity in the market.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability with a proactive and collaborative style.
• Ability and appetite to learn and assimilate new information and think holistically through complex problems with technical and non-technical components.
• Track record for building effective partnerships, facilitating consensus-building among multiple stakeholders.
• Top-notch presentation and interpersonal skills that resonate with audiences of different backgrounds; the ability to communicate persuasively, concisely and unambiguously in speech and writing.
• Ability to work independently and cross-functionally with other teams.
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams), Adobe Pro, as well as Salesforce (for project management).
• Ability to travel 5-10 % across New York State.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree and 6 years’ relevant experience including 2 years of supervisory experience, particularly in architecture, engineering, real estate, urban planning, or related field with a professional certification in energy or building science or engineering preferred.
• Registered Architect, Professional Engineer, MBA or MPP preferred
• CEM or CEA Certification by the Association of Energy Engineers
• A personal accreditation with a relevant third-party building rating system (e.g., LEED AP, etc.)
  
  

Please submit two files, one for your cover letter and another for a resume.

Please note that during the application process, you may be prompted to opt-in to Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) scoring. This is an automatic request in the ADP system but is not a feature that is used by NYSERDA in its recruiting and hiring process. Your response will have no impact on your application to NYSERDA.

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