Portfolio Market Transformation Lead

Description

Leidos is seeking a full time Portfolio Market Transformation Lead for the Ameren Illinois Energy Efficiency Program. This is a strategically important position that will have a large impact on an already successful organization that provides energy program design, implementation, and consulting.

This position will oversee all aspects of market transformation technical and evaluation components for the energy efficiency program. Tasks will include:

• Portfolio level strategy development
• Logic model development or oversight
• Pilot and/or testing development
• Natural market baseline development including data collection plans
• Presentations to the utility and/or statewide stakeholders
• Oversight of educational activities to promote market development

This position will also assist with coordinating evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V) activities for the overall portfolio of energy efficiency implementation activities. The lead is responsible for tracking and assigning tasks to a range of program management and technical colleagues to ensure that the program is meeting all needs of the EM&V evaluation, including net-to-gross protocol oversight and advisement.

Location
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Ameren Illinois and Leidos believe it is very important to provide employment opportunity to the utility ratepayers that reside in Illinois. Therefore, there is Strong preference for the successful candidate to be located in the Ameren Illinois service territory (roughly the southern two-thirds of Illinois).

Travel: Minimal travel for meetings and contractor trainings, approximately 10%

• Collaborate with a team of technical and program management colleagues to establish market transformation efforts for the Energy Efficiency Program
• Identify internal market transformation ideas and/or solicit market transformation ideas from broader network of energy efficiency service providers
• Conduct market research, develop theory and logic models, and develop service territory accounting procedures for new technology uptake
• Coordinate with evaluator on natural market baseline development including data collection and evaluation methodologies
• Work closely with the Residential and Business Energy Efficiency Program implementation team to develop appropriate training, education, pilots, demonstrations for market transformation efforts
• Collaborate with other research and design teams that provide market transformation services
• Collaborate with marketing resources to develop effective marketing pieces that encourage adoption of new energy efficient technologies
• Facilitate discovery of external training options for market transformation activities, working closely with Program Ally Management and Operations teams
• Lead activities for net-to-gross protocol and EM&V responses for the utility defense of appropriate energy savings
• Deliver frequent reporting on established goals and KPIs

• Master s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience, Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant experience implementing energy efficiency programs, or 7+ years of prior relevant experience
• Experience with Energy Efficiency and Market Transformation programs
• Superior communication, collaboration, and task management skills
• Demonstrated ability to work well as a team and as an individual
• Proven ability in process streamlining, content management, and document control
• Project or program management experience is desired
• Coordination of Program Ally data reporting as requested
• The ability and flexibility to adjust to changing schedules driven by operational requirements
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint, and Salesforce; strong understanding of statistics and energy evaluation protocols

Leidos seeks the best and the brightest, and in return, we invest in you, with an eye on your future, through career advancement, growth opportunities and continuous improvement via mentoring, formal and informal project management training and assistance with obtaining pertinent certifications. We challenge you to help solve some of the world’s toughest problems, and reward you…