Advocacy & Public Policy Manager

PSEG.com; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company seeks a candidate for an internal-facing position focused on enhancing regulatory and legislative advocacy efforts. The role involves developing persuasive arguments, creating deliverables for stakeholders, and managing a cross-functional engagement council. Candidates must have substantial experience in government relations and strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex topics for diverse audiences.

Benefits

Medical Benefits

401(k) with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Paid Time Off

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in government relations or advocacy.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex topics for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Develop persuasive arguments for PSEG’s policy agenda.
• Create deliverables for external audiences.
• Support ESG governance and stakeholder engagement.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder Engagement

Persuasion

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA

Tools

Power Point

Excel

Job description

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We want you to be healthy, balanced, and feel secure. That’s why you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer a retirement program, 401(k) with company match, company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement and a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year (including vacation, scheduled holidays, and floating holidays).

PSEG offers a unique experience to our more than 12,000 employees – we provide the resources and opportunities for career development that come with being a Fortune 500 company, as well as the attention, camaraderie, and care for one another you might typically associate with a small business. Our focus on combatting climate change through clean energy technology, our new net zero climate vision for 2030 and enhanced commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; and supporting the communities we serve make this a particularly exciting time to join PSEG.

This is an internal-facing position that enhances state and federal regulatory and legislative advocacy efforts by:
1) Working with SGA and federal advocacy leads to develop compelling persuasion arguments on our key issues that will resonate with key external audiences, including the public policy decision-makers and influencers that affect PSEG’s business. The position will develop arguments solidly backed up with facts, which may be elicited from internal subject matter experts, external consultants/firms hired to perform certain analyses, our internal business plans, regulatory filings, and financial or investor information.
2) Supporting the state and federal advocacy efforts by producing deliverables for different external stakeholder audiences, including power point slide decks, graphics, white papers, position papers, summaries or other written materials designed to simplify complex material for external audiences.

3) Supporting the ESG governance aspect of PSEG’s stakeholder engagement by managing a cross-functional stakeholder engagement council of key relationship managers across the Enterprise, with the goal of coordinating our identification of important stakeholders, engagement channels and approaches, key issues, opportunities and trouble spots.

This position may be based in either the Newark, NJ area or the Washington, D.C. area. Candidates based in the D.C. area should be aware that the role supports both federal affairs and New Jersey state government affairs. As such, regular travel to NJ is required, including Newark and Trenton, approximately biweekly, with additional travel as business needs dictate.

Job Responsibilities

• Work with federal and state advocacy leads to formulate substantive arguments to build stakeholder support for PSEG’s policy agenda, legislative/regulatory outcomes or investments.
  
• Create deliverables that can be used with external audiences by federal and state government affairs colleagues.
• Gather the supporting information to bolster our persuasion effort. This can include managing external consultants or academics retained to provide expertise; engaging with PSEG subject matter experts on tax, finance, business operations, or other disciplines; absorbing written products either generated by PSEG such as the PSEG business plan, regulatory filings, pleadings, investor materials, or other studies and reports by external stakeholders or organizations
• Support effort to close the ESG gap related to systemic stakeholder engagement by coordinating an Enterprise-wide team of relationship managers, and overseeing the decentralized effort to catalog critical stakeholders, engagement approaches, issues of interest, opportunities and trouble spots in our engagement with important external stakeholders.

Job Specific Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, BA or BS or equivalent experience, an advanced degree such as an MBA, MPP or MS is preferred.
• A Minimum of 10years of hands-on experience working with government relations, advocacy, stakeholder engagement, or issue management.
• An ability to quickly grasp policy and political issues facing PSEG.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, ability to translate complex topics for diverse external audiences.
• Strong political instincts, ability to understand the elements of effective persuasion in the public policy arena.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Ability to create compelling graphics, charts, visuals, tables; use of Power Point, Xcel and other tools.
• Ability to communicate complex information clearly in writing and in oral presentations to a range of audiences.
• Ability to run meetings, be assertive in seeking answers to challenging questions that face us as we try to advance and protect PSEG’s interests in the public policy arena

Desired Qualifications:

• Expertise and Proven ability to compellingly translate data and concepts graphically through Power Point, Excel, and other tools.
• Familiaritiy with modeling concepts, and SWOT analysis, Stakeholder Mapping.

Minimum Years of Experience

10 years of experience

Education

Certifications

None Noted

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