Senior Associate, Grid Integration and Markets - Carbon- Electricity Program

Job Summary

RMI is seeking a Senior Associate who understands how power systems work, can model the impacts of innovative technologies to inform better planning, and can use these results to help stakeholders reform markets and regulation. If that is you, we invite you to join our Carbon‑Free Electricity program’s growing global team. Applicants should be passionate about ensuring an equitable energy transition and excited about work outside the United States.

We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented groups to apply. Final date to receive applications: Friday, July 17th, 11:59pm CT

The Global Electricity Transition (GET) team within RMI’s Carbon‑Free Electricity (CFE) program supports the transition of electricity systems globally to build clean, affordable, reliable, secure, and economically competitive power systems. We work with power‑sector decision‑makers to meet these goals through integration of low‑cost renewable energy, storage, grid flexibility, and distributed energy resources. Our approach combines research, direct engagement, and collaboration to help individuals and organizations create and implement transformative energy solutions, including innovative business models, regulation, market design, and operational strategies.

The GET team seeks a Senior Associate to analyze and model power systems from physical and techno‑economic perspectives. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated work experience and expertise in grid‑scale operations and analyses. As a deep subject‑matter expert working across a range of geographies and topics, this Senior Associate will combine technical expertise with strong project execution and task‑management skills to keep multiple work streams on track in parallel.

The role will involve collaboration with RMI regional teams in Southeast Asia, India, and sub‑Saharan Africa, including Colombia, Indonesia, Nigeria, the Philippines, and South Africa.

• Conducting power system analysis to evaluate grid flexibility needs at a national level and identifying innovative market or regulatory mechanisms to enable cost‑effective integration of clean‑energy resources.
• Estimating the potential cost savings that grid‑forming resources could create if deployed at scale, and creating guidance for power‑sector decision‑makers on how to achieve them.
• Developing approaches that utilities and system operators can use to better plan under uncertainty and optimize investments to avoid lock‑in and stranded assets.
• Supporting an electricity regulator to develop a framework for integrating large loads into the grid while maximizing system benefits and protecting customers from cost shifts.
• Co‑authoring thought‑leadership products on solutions to emerging power‑sector challenges and priorities.

Serve as a subject matter expert on power systems within your project teams, ensuring technical rigor and feasibility of proposed solutions. Independently scope and execute multiple analytical work streams in parallel, especially those related to markets and grids‑focused projects, and support team members in scoping and executing analyses. Locate, synthesize, and analyze data that allows RMI to shed new light on problems and devise creative solutions.

Use your research and analysis to develop hypotheses, insights, and recommendations that accelerate clean energy deployment, drawing on various change levers such as deployment of technical solutions, capacity building, mobilization of capital, or power‑sector planning.

Advise on and/or help implement RMI's use of key modeling and analytical tools and resources (e.g., power flow models, production cost models, resource adequacy models, accreditation methods, etc.) and apply this to:

• Use, improve, and quality‑control both your and teammates' existing models.
• Develop systems to share and organize technical work across project teams.
• Mentor staff to develop and use these tools / skill sets.
• Research novel tools and analytical options that RMI could leverage in future project work, including software innovations such as automation, AI, etc.

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