MISO offers a comprehensive benefits package available on your first day of employment.

Position Location: Carmel, IN, Eagan, MN or Little Rock, AR

It is an exciting time of unprecedented change for the electricity sector. A transitioning generation fleet comes with new challenges and opportunities for MISO markets and operations. We have some challenging problems to solve – and fast!

Are you interested in leading cross-functional projects to support MISO’s vision to be the most value-creating regional transmission organization in the United States? Does the idea of evolving MISO’s market products and resource adequacy construct to anticipate new system needs and emerging technologies excite you? Do you want to be part of a team that is working to enable a reliable, affordable, and sustainable grid of the future?

MISO is looking for a Strategic Insights and Assessment Advisor to lead its “System Reliability Attributes” initiative. This year, MISO launched an initiative to identify system reliability attributes that, under current market constructs, could become scarce due to the region’s rapidly evolving mix of generation. The work explores the best means of ensuring sufficient reliability attributes, whether through coordination for greater visibility, improvements to existing requirements and products, or the development of something new. This Advisor role will lead a cross-functional team to understand, measure, develop and implement solutions.

See here for project specific information related to this role: https://cdn.misoenergy.org/20221012%20RASC%20Item%2008b%20System%20Attribute%20Overview%20Presentation626543.pdf

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A typical day as a Strategic Insights and Assessment Advisor will include coordinating, supporting, and providing input to Strategy and Business Development (SBD) efforts to analyze industry change and implications on MISO’s existing operations, system planning and market functions. Conducting research into emerging technologies and member actions to adopt these technologies is a regular part of this role. The ability to coordinate efforts related to strategy development and implementation within SBD and between SBD and other service lines is a plus.

In one year as a Strategic Insights and Assessment Advisor you will know you were successful if you...

• Assist in alignment of Corporate Strategy, System Planning and other Service Lines to develop and implement process to achieve internal alignment on strategic issues to guide future strategic business decisions.
• Develop reports and presentations and facilitate discussion of technical issues and solutions with service lines, MISO executive management, and key stakeholders to meet business needs.
• Assist in performance of quantitative, policy and economic scouting, and analysis focused on technological advances in renewable energy including solar wind solar PV, energy storage, energy efficiency/demand response and DERs. Impacts of transmission and distribution technological advances and member adoption system design and interactions between transmission and distribution system.
• Support efforts to achieve alignment of goals and operating plans across time horizons to meet operational and market needs with relevant new processes and technologies.

What we are looking for:

• Master’s degree in a discipline relevant to the role such as Engineering, Economics, Public Policy, Management Science, or Applied Mathematics, or 10 years of relevant work experience with proven analytical and problem-solving skills are required.
• At least 5 years supervisory, project team, project management, or other leadership-oriented experience in the above-mentioned fields required.

What we prefer:

• At least 10 years’ experience in the following areas:
• Transmission planning, competitive electricity markets, relevant regulatory and legislative standards, and requirements.
• Demonstrable experiences of evaluating emerging power system issues.
• Track record working on emerging generation and transmission technologies, including wind, solar, storage and DER integration

MISO manages the electricity superhighway in the Central U.S. Through use of groundbreaking research and advanced technology, our highly skilled employees ensure power flows reliably to 42 million Americans. Operating the electricity grid, running a robust energy market, planning for a bright future – it’s what our immensely talented and dedicated team does every day.

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Apply today for the opportunity to help us keep the lights on!