Environmental Agency Advocate Senior Advisor

Southern California Edison (SCE); Rosemead (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking an Environmental Agency Advocate Senior Advisor in Agency Relations (Regulatory Affairs) to shape regulatory strategy and engage with state and federal agencies. The role focuses on creating regulatory pathways for priority initiatives and influencing policy positions.

The position emphasizes collaboration across OUs, leadership engagement, and programmatic permitting for federally regulated lands, with a hybrid work mode and travel up to 30%.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years of experience in case management, energy markets, environmental sustainability or energy-related regulatory policy.
• Experience communicating across policy makers, agency staff, internal and external leaders.
• Experience with regulatory permitting and environmental policy input.

Responsibilities

• Manages relationships with federal and state agencies at multiple levels; develops engagement strategies.
• Leads meetings with agency leadership to discuss priorities, progress, and challenges.
• Provides input on prioritization and policy positions to inform SCE decisions.
• Leads development or renewal of programmatic permits and agreements on federally regulated lands.
• Coordinates input on environmental policies, regulations, guidelines, and legislation.
• Represents or supports SCE in regulatory proceedings and stakeholder meetings.
• Communicates agency updates and decisions affecting SCE strategy.
• Builds relationships with regulatory agencies and external environmental organizations.
• Ensures protection of sensitive information and data with highest standards of conduct.

Skills

Regulatory communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Policy interpretation

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Biology, Natural Sciences, Business Admin, Law

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Join the Clean Energy RevolutionBecome an

Join the Clean Energy RevolutionBecome an Environmental Agency Advocate Senior Advisor in Agency Relations (Reguatory Affairs) at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll hone your communication and problem-solving skills, make key connections internally and externally, including with state and federal agencies, learn about core company functions, create regulatory pathways for priority initiatives, and interact with leadership. This role can serve as a strategic launchpad offering high visibility and cross-functional exposure that can open doors to a wide range of career paths across the organization. As an Environmental Agency Advocate Senior Advisor, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Manages relationships and engagement strategies with federal and state agencies at management and regional levels; leads collaborative development of strategies to facilitate SCE work at key agencies.
• Leads, coordinates and/or supports periodic SCE meetings with agency leadership to discuss priorities, progress, plans, and challenges. Participates in agency staff meetings led by Environmental Services (ESD) or other OUs (Government Lands, T&D).
• Provides internal input on prioritization, broader corporate goals, competing interests, and agency perspective to inform SCE decisions. Advocates for SCE's regulatory requirements, goals, initiatives, and policy positions. Handles escalated issues.
• Leads the development, renewal or amendment of programmatic permits and agreements for operations and maintenance on federally regulated lands. Supports the development, renewal, or amendment of environmental resource‑specific and other technical permits. Supports implementation of permits and develop solutions to challenges and trends identified by internal teams and agencies to improve permit efficacy.
• Coordinates with internal OUs (e.g., ESD, Legislative Affairs, Corporate Affairs, etc.) to review and provide input on relevant environmental policies, regulations, guidelines, and legislation. Manages or supports preparation of SCE comments on proposed policies, regulations, guidelines, and legislation. Represents or supports SCE at regulatory proceedings (e.g., hearings, workshops, board meetings.
• Shares significant information about the agencies, including leadership changes, key decisions made or to be made, changes in agency regulations, significant SCE issues, progress on major projects, agency feedback, and other relevant matters that impact SCE and its relations with and strategy for agencies.
• Maintains relationships and coordinate with electric utility trade organizations and other partnerships (e.g., EPRI, CCEEB, USWAG, WUG, JUG, NGOs, and environmental organizations). Represents SCE at CEEBB Air Project, South Coast Air Project, and Natural Resources Task Force meetings, in coordination with internal stakeholders.
• Serves as SCE team lead for (non-species specific, non-technical) programmatic permits from federal land management agencies.
• Develops and builds effective working relationships with regulatory agencies and other external government environmental agencies.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ten or more years of experience in case management, energy markets, environmental sustainability and/or energy‑related regulatory policy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Biology, Natural Sciences, Business Administration, Law or related field
• Experience with local air agencies, Department of Transportation and state and/or federal land management agencies
• Experience communicating across a broad audience, including policy makers, agency staff, internal and external leaders, lawyers, and other collaborators for a positive impact
• Experience creating pivot charts in Excel and creating dashboards in PowerBi
• Experience working in or with a regulated utility company
• Ability to solve problems in collaborative and inclusive manner
• Strong drive for continuous improvement and customer service excellence

Additional Information

• This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
• Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
• Position will require up to 30% traveling and being out in the field throughout the SCE service territory.
• Relocation does not apply to this position.

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

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