Demand Response Specialist

The Demand Response Specialist is responsible for assisting the Demand Response Section Head in shaping and developing DR policies and strategies (including utility/municipality size aggregators, industrial aggregators, industrial demand/supply trading, consumer peak demand shifting, use of renewables in generation mix) in all sectors including residential, commercial, government, industrial, and agricultural.

Furthermore, the Demand Response Specialist is responsible for ensuring that the policies and strategies proposed are in line with the entity's broader plans for moving the sector forward in an effective and efficient manner, and that they are properly documented, updated, communicated, and enforced to drive improvement and changes in the sector.

Additionally, the Demand Response Specialist is responsible for effectively disseminating information on water-related issues to foster informed discussions, engagement, and decision making.

Job-specific Responsibilities:

• In collaboration with government and private sector stakeholders, provide a robust, evidence-based, and cost-effective design to respond to demand.
• Provide unbiased, reliable information and insights about the peak shifting and small pond filling issues.
• Support the implementation of demand response policies, programs, and initiatives by providing the necessary technical assistance
• Advise and raise awareness on demand response issues.
• Contribute to the development of demand response policy and strategy, tariff reform, and subsidy programs by ensuring that tariff policies and strategies are aligned with the government's social and economic goals.
• Ensure that demand response policies remain updated and relevant, as well as communicating them to the entity's various directorates to ensure that they are considered when concluding partnership agreements, sectoral investment decisions, innovation efforts, risk assessment and management, and so forth.
• Undertake or commission research to support the development and implementation of the Demand Response Sector policies, identifying gaps, possible alternatives and contributing to the policy development process to ensure that policies remain in line with government decisions, best practices and new trends and technologies.
• Develop methodologies to measure the impact of new policies and plans on the sector from a social, economic, and environmental perspective.
• Communicate with external stakeholders and coordinate working groups, committee meetings, to support engagement as well as policy development and implementation.

Qualifications: A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline e.g., public policy, environmental policy, engineering, environmental sciences.