Program Performance Advisor

1 week ago


Toronto, Canada Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) Full time

**Program Performance Advisor**:
**Date**:Jan 26, 2024

**Location**: CA

**Company**:Independent Electricity System Operator

**INDEPENDENT ELECTRICITY SYSTEM OPERATOR (IESO)**

**Requisition ID**:

- 19559**Location**:

- Toronto - Hybrid**Status**:

- Temporary - up to 24 months**Business Unit**:
Planning, Conservation & Resource Adequacy

**Why join us?**

You’ve got great skills. And you want to use them in an organization where you know what you do every day matters. We get that.
We also know that ensuring Ontarians have access to affordable and reliable power doesn’t happen by accident. So we give you the tools, flexibility and support you need to achieve your goals, and development opportunities to help you grow. You’ll thrive in a collaborative, team-based environment that values your unique skills and experiences - and recognizes that when you do better, we become even better too.

**Who we are**

The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) works at the centre of the province’s power system, ensuring Ontarians have access to reliable and cost-effective electricity when and where they need it. We operate the province’s electricity grid 24/7, design, run and oversee the wholesale electricity markets, and plan and prepare to meet Ontario’s electricity needs - now and into the future.

**The opportunity**

The Program Performance Advisor is responsible for the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of demand side management programs for the IESO, including Save on Energy programs, to address the needs of Ontario’s power system and electricity consumers. Under the direction of the Supervisor, Business Program Performance, the Advisor is responsible for activities that may include program design, procurement, program delivery, contract management of delivery agents, business development, technical review, communications and other types of support to achieve program energy and demand savings targets within established budgets.

**What you'll do**

**Leadership**
- Maintain knowledge and awareness of innovation, technological developments, best practices and market transformation activities in the industry and make recommendations to support the continuous improvement and evolution of demand side management programs
- Provide guidance to Analysts and junior staff
- Direct the work of vendors to adhere to program requirements

**Design**
- Responsible for analysis to support program design, including program concepts, measures and behavior, customer and market characteristics, barriers and opportunities, incentive setting, participation forecasting, cost effectiveness tests and business case development
- Perform analysis to recommend and establish incentive levels for various energy saving measures, as well as to establish appropriate budgets for programs
- On an ongoing basis, review the effectiveness of existing processes and recommend changes to processes, systems, procedures and market facing documents and qualify new opportunities, emerging technologies and delivery models for inclusion in program design, as necessary

**Delivery**
- Responsible for program management, including administration and evolution of program rules, participant contracts, calculation spreadsheets, partner contracts, budget management and related information system content.
- Manage the development and issuance of RFPs for procurement of external service providers, contribute to evaluation of RFP submissions, and manage the development of contracts with third party vendors
- Lead program launch activities and implementation of program improvements (i.e. change management requests) with staff input from other business units across the IESO, including Legal and Procurement
- Ensure contract compliance, including review of performance deliverables for payment purposes.
- Support counterparty negotiations by assisting Management with analysis of counterparty offers and proposals for purposes of extracting fair value for the IESO.

**Technical**
- Support the maintenance of the IESO’s library of prescriptive and quasi-prescriptive conservation measures, and the IESO’s library of end-use load profiles.
- Perform necessary research and analysis to recommend and establish end-use performance targets, as well as recommend technologies to be adopted in demand-side management programs, including technical research for the assumptions used for estimating the energy and demand savings for energy conservation measures and assessing their cost-effectiveness.
- Develop technical specifications for new energy conservation measures including requirements for eligibility and measurement and verification processes; develop appropriate tools to support program administration including technical guidelines and spreadsheets
- Conduct meaningful and insightful peer review of technical work performed by both internal IESO staff, program delivery partners, and external consultants, including the review and approval of te



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