Project Manager II or Sr Project Manager, Market Scaling

Job Overview

The Project Manager II or Sr. Project Manager, Market Scaling has 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 across the built environment.

Primary Responsibilities

• Oversee delivery of one or more of the Market Scaling group’s programs to meet planned objectives, key results, and other performance metrics that track market transformation progress
• Deliver critical market insights that can help promote replicability and reduce soft costs related to building energy efficiency and decarbonization measures
• Develop and manage key relationships with market, policy and other critical stakeholders
• Develop and oversee one or more programs that build customer confidence and accelerate adoption of energy efficiency and building electrification at scale, including but not limited to:
• Building public-private partnerships to unlock the investment opportunity of clean energy solutions
• Running programs intended to work with developers, owners, and operators to design and build high-performance, low-carbon buildings in a manner that is cost-effective and replicable
• Piloting, demonstrating, and replicating emerging technologies that are compatible with existing building infrastructure, simplify the decarbonization process and improve net present value of energy efficiency and building electrification solutions
• Strategically using incentives as a bridge to a future where incentives are no longer needed
• Maintaining a network of stakeholders, market participants, trade associations, peer program administrators, policy experts, and other sources of insight to inform design and enable improvement of NYSERDA's solutions
• Execution and Ongoing Improvement
• Oversee effective and efficient management of program operations, with an ongoing eye for improvement, including identifying and implementing opportunities to standardize and streamline programs
• Oversee delivery of programs to meet established rules and requirements, including but not limited to funding sources, budget, performance management, outcomes, and market impact metrics
• Ensure effective management and delivery of services, incentives, and other project-based transactions
• Manage financial, staff and contractor resources for efficiency and effectiveness

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience managing projects in the buildings decarbonization space is a must-have qualification for either title.
• For Project Manager II ($93,659-$131,298): Bachelor’s degree and 6 years of relevant experience with a demonstrated record of success in setting strategy and successfully delivering services or solutions at scale or scope within business or government operating environments.
• For Sr. Project Manager ($115,283-$145,682): Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relevant experience with a demonstrated record of success in setting strategy and successfully delivering services or solutions at scale or scope within business or government operating environments.
• Insight and understanding into a broad array of interventions across sectors, buildings, and customer types, including effectively communicating why, what, and how.
• Skill in gaining and using insight and feedback from stakeholders and market actors and the market context to formulate strategy and design and evolve solutions.
• Keen awareness of the economics, policy, and political dynamics, regulations, institutional, and market drivers, and other factors that affect decision-making of program partners, customers, and other stakeholders – and of the implications for impactful NYSERDA and utility, interventions across the sector.
• Puts the team first; a track record and natural predisposition toward investing in the success of colleagues and building productive relationships across a diverse organization.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability; an entrepreneurial edge, resourcefulness, adaptability, and an instinct for surfacing value and pragmatic solutions.
• A self-starter who acts independently, directs one’s own work, and can handle diverse tasks quickly and accurately within a high-performance environment.
• Awareness and responsiveness to organizational dynamics, and understanding how such dynamics shape decision-making and internal and external-facing strategies.
• A relentless work ethic and resolute integrity.
• Perform all job responsibilities with respect, fairness, consistency, and inclusion.

Preferred Qualifications

• For Project Manager II: Master’s degree and 5 years’ experience, particularly in policy, public or business administration, architecture, engineering, real estate, urban planning, or related field.
• For Sr. Project Manager: Master’s degree and 6 years’ experience, particularly in policy, public or business administration, architecture, engineering, real estate, urban planning, or related field.
• Related professional certification in energy or building science or engineering preferred.
• Experience with data analysis, proficiency with Salesforce, Tableau or MS Project.

Additional Qualifications

• This position requires some travel (10%) between NYSERDA’s offices in Albany and New York City, as well as to engage market partners and promote key project and program accomplishments and associated press events and conferences.