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Center for Sustainable Energy ® (CSE) is a national nonprofit that accelerates adoption of clean transportation and distributed energy through effective and equitable program design and administration. Governments, utilities and the private sector trust CSE for its data-driven and software-enabled approach, deep domain expertise and customer-focused team.
Our vision is a future with sustainable, equitable and resilient transportation, buildings and communities.
Job Summary
The Director of Commercial Fleet Programs in CSE’s Transportation Program’s department leads CSE’s mission-driven efforts to accelerate the implementation of programs designed to incentivize the adoption of transportation decarbonization technologies among commercial fleets through the management of incentive programs administered by state and local government agencies and electric utilities.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Overall
- Identifies the addressable market for commercial fleet incentive programs.
- Aligns CSE’s existing services portfolio with the market requirements.
- Builds CSE’s portfolio of commercial fleet programs.
Oversees staff and activities across the portfolio to ensure 1.) client goals and objectives are met and 2.) the transportation department senior director can identify targets for business development and address the market accordingly.
Business Development
- Advises CSE executive leadership regarding product and service developments required to address client needs and broader market opportunities.
- Collaborates with CSE’s business development team to ensure proposed program designs address client requests and are within CSE’s capabilities and/or identifies partners to fill gaps in CSE’s capabilities.
- Develops and maintains relationships with partners.
- Collaborates with CSE’s business development team to co-develop and delegate proposal development activities to appropriate staff.
- Collaborates with CSE’s Policy team to coordinate actions on legislative and regulatory actions/proceedings.
Program Implementation
- Collaborates with CSE’s Legal team to ensure contracts contain fair and reasonable provisions and to ensure CSE compliance with executed contracts.
- Collaborates with relevant CSE executive leadership in contracting negotiations for awarded work.
- Oversees program manager implementation of contracted programs including the project management approach, client engagement/communications strategy, budget creation and updates, staff & matrix department resourcing plan, and program process artifacts among other implementation elements.
- Aligns client priorities for programs goals and objectives with staff resourcing and actioning.
- Ensures CSE’s matrix departments and internal program teams are aligned on program goals and objective, client priorities, and budget constraints.
Oversees the reporting of programs (health and forward-looking metrics) to CSE’s executive leadership.
Performance Management
- Collaborates with department Senior Leader to create metrics for performance evaluation of program managers.
- Monitors program manager task execution and reports to executive leadership accordingly and the human resources department as necessary.
Other Duties
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Champion of CSE’s mission, vision, and values in all areas of work.
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Required
- 6+ years’ experience managing or consulting for commercial fleet projects for utilities, and state and local agencies.
- In-depth understanding of the commercial fleet electrification ecosystem, policy mechanisms, and industry stakeholders.
- Ability to lead/direct a business unit, including making business, financial, and personnel decisions.
- Ability to provide management oversight for multiple, concurrent projects.
- Ability to make independent judgments and recommendations.
- Ability to logically diagnose and resolve complex problems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to effectively work through situations involving incomplete and “best available” information (i.e. “grey areas”).
- High level of initiative, motivation, and reliability.
Preferred
- Business experience and/or training/education (e.g., BA Business or MBA).
- Engineering or construction management training/education.
- Project management training/education
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
Experience:
- 10 years, utility in-house or utility consulting
- Demonstrated management of utility transportation electrification projects
- Demonstrated management of commercial fleet electrification projects
- Demonstrated management of commercial fleet infrastructure development projects
WORKING CONDITIONS
Work Environment:
- Works in an office environment
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Must have manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and other equipment customarily present in an office environment.
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CSE is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
