Brief Description The Senior Analyst works within SEPA's Research and Industry Strategy (RIS) department that serves as the organization’s subject matter experts on what it takes to deliver clean, affordable, and resilient energy to all customers, both in the U.S. and globally. RIS facilitates high-impact industry dialogue and develops analysis, frameworks, and tools that deliver enhanced value to members and help shape the evolution of state and regional energy and utility policy. This role supports the design and implementation of research and strategic initiatives that advance SEPA’s Grid, Growth, and Globe priorities.
The Senior Analyst conducts applied research, quantitative analysis, and data-driven synthesis to generate actionable insights for utilities, policymakers, and other industry stakeholders. This position is responsible for evaluating and visualizing complex quantitative and qualitative data, ensuring that it is presented in clear and timely written and visual products. This position has the opportunity to work on a broad set of issues related to the ongoing transformation of the electric power sector, while also developing deeper subject matter expertise on select topics including energy economics, demand flexibility, emerging technologies, resilience, and utility planning and customer programs.
The Senior
Analyst contributes to SEPA’s member-focused working groups, external communications, and other collaborative initiatives, strengthening SEPA’s position as a trusted resource for industry and policymakers.
Responsibilities and Key Impact Areas
Research and Content Development
• Works independently and on teams to design research projects and execute multiple concurrent research tasks, ensuring high-quality, timely, and impactful outputs that advance SEPA’s Strategic Plan goals. Focus areas include distribution system planning, resilience, wildfire mitigation, flexible interconnection, managed charging, virtual power plants, large-load integration, and related topics.
• Collect, evaluate, validate, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data through literature reviews, stakeholder interviews and engagement, technology benchmarking, and market research.
• Analyze datasets from utilities, public sources, and SEPA partners to extract insights on system impacts, grid performance, load growth, electrification costs, and customer behavior.
• Build models and dashboards that support scenario analysis, program evaluation, and grid planning insights.
• Communicate complex findings to technical and non-technical audiences through clear writing, visualizations, infographics, and charts. Deliverables may include reports, blogs, frameworks, toolkits, workshops, presentations, and other technical content tailored to multiple audiences including SEPA’s diverse members, policymakers, and domestic and international stakeholders.
• Contributes to planning and development of RIS-relevant content for external communications, SEPA leadership support, and external events/conferences. Deliverables may include memos, talking points, slide decks, responses to media inquiries, and speakers and conference session proposals for SEPA, RE+ Events, or other key industry events.
Working Groups, Member Support, and External Engagement
• Provides support for one or more SEPA working groups. Contributes to the planning and implementation of annual work plans and meeting agendas, member and speaker recruitment, member engagement, documentation of working group business, and co-development of research insights and deliverables.
• Provides member support through leading the development of responses to research requests, participating in member meetings, and maintaining overall close communication and coordination with SEPA’s Membership department.
• In coordination with the Senior Director, represents SEPA externally through speaking engagements and stakeholder engagement, strengthening industry relationships and visibility. Presents research and contributes subject matter knowledge at national, regional, and state industry conferences, workshops, and events organized by SEPA, RE+, and external organizations.
Internal Coordination and Cross-Departmental Initiatives
• Contributes to project design and scoping for new initiatives in collaboration with RIS leadership.
• Develops project management plans for approval by project leads, including collaboratively defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, resource needs, and success metrics in alignment with organizational priorities.
• Independently implements project management processes for small projects from scoping to delivery, including managing internal and external review and publication processes and monitoring project progre
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