Senior Policy Advisor, Electricity

Senior Policy Advisor for Electricity

Third Way is a national think tank and advocacy organization that champions moderate policy and political ideas. Since our founding in 2005, we have served as a critical bulwark against political extremism by advancing values‑driven, reform-oriented solutions on the defining issues of our time. Our work is grounded in the mainstream American values of opportunity, freedom, security, and democratic capitalism, and we advocate for the vital center across seven major areas: climate and energy, economy, education, health care, national security, politics, and social policy.

The Senior Policy Advisor for Electricity will support the Climate and Energy Program’s (CEP) electricity portfolio and lead policy development and advocacy efforts focused on electricity affordability. This includes developing and advancing policies across one or more of the team’s core work streams—electricity markets and regulation, power sector economics, utility business model reform, transmission financing, and the data center and electricity nexus—and communicating those policy ideas to key external stakeholders including Congressional offices, federal agencies, utilities, grid planners, and other NGOs.

We expect the right candidate to bring deep expertise in one or more of these areas; work streams outside their core expertise will be supported by consultants and team collaboration.

• Own a core body of work within CEP’s electricity portfolio, including setting priorities, managing timelines, and ensuring delivery of high-quality outputs.

• Conduct and oversee in-depth research on policies to reform electricity markets, regulation, utility cost recovery, and transmission financing, with a focus on advancing electricity affordability.

• Author high‑impact written reports, memos, and other products that influence the public discourse and advance center‑left policies to promote electricity affordability.

• Develop a work plan, with input from supervisor, to set objectives for and contribute to CEP’s electricity portfolio as well as strategies, products, events, and other resources to advance those objectives.

• Collaborate with fellow NGOs and with regulatory, utility, and other electricity sector stakeholders to identify policy needs and build consensus around proposals to meet them.

• Manage relationships with key contacts from across the government—including Congressional offices, FERC, DOE, other relevant federal agencies, and state governments—to stay current on policy developments, advocate for center‑left electricity policy solutions, and advise on effective policy implementation.

• Collaborate with colleagues across the Climate and Energy Program to ensure policy proposals, products, and advocacy plans are coordinated for maximum impact.

• Manage and coordinate contracts with consultants covering electricity work streams outside the advisor’s core expertise.

• Represent Third Way in relevant meetings, working groups, congressional briefings, and public speaking engagements on electricity policy.

• Salary Range: $90,000 - $100,000, annually

• Public Communication
• Complex Problem Solving
• Critical Thinking
• Relationship Management
• Advocacy Agility
• Analytical & Research Skills
• Knowledge Management
• Accountability for Self
• Respectfulness

• A strong understanding of electricity policy needs and solutions in one or more of the following areas: electricity markets and wholesale market design, federal and state electricity regulation (including the Federal Power Act, PURPA, and RTO/ISO proceedings), power sector economics and financing, transmission and distribution development, utility business model and cost recovery reform, and the data center and electricity nexus.
• At least three years of experience in electricity policy, power markets, utility regulatory practice, energy economics, transmission and distribution, or a closely related field—including experience at or engaging with FERC, a state public utility commission, an RTO or ISO, a utility, a transmission developer, a research institution, or an advocacy organization.
• An ability to write clearly and…