Senior Advisor Market Development

September 30, 2026

Mississauga, ON – Hybrid

21297

Temporary, Up to 18-months

1

Markets and Reliability

MP5

For standard 35-hour work week

Step 1: $118,456 to Step 10: $169,208

The successful candidate will be placed at the appropriate step within the salary grade/band, based on relevant years of experience and other applicable considerations.

The IESO is committed to ensuring Ontario’s electricity system meets the province’s needs today and into the future. We are charged with purpose, delivering reliable, affordable, and sustainable electricity for homes, businesses, and communities across the province. We are energized to grow, embracing opportunities to shape the future of a dynamic and evolving energy sector while advancing our careers. We are powered by teamwork, supported by diverse and passionate colleagues who foster respect, celebrate successes, and thrive on shared achievements.

At the IESO, it’s not just what we do— it’s who we are!

Our central role includes managing the provincial power grid in real-time, overseeing and evolving Ontario’s electricity market, engaging with government, municipalities and Indigenous communities, and planning for Ontario’s future electricity needs. Our employees play a key role in driving grid innovation, protecting the system from threats, advancing the province’s energy conservation programs, and forecasting and procuring the electricity resources we’ll need in the decades to come.

This is a unionized position that falls within the Continuous Market Improvement Deparment in the Markets & Reliability Business Unit.

• Act in an advisory capacity to management on energy market developments and assist in the development of Ontario electricity market projects with a focus on electricity market integration. Act as project leader and represent the company on assigned committees, task forces, etc.

In this role, you’ll make a meaningful impact by contributing to the IESO team and supporting the electricity needs of the province through:

• Undertake studies, programs or projects of major issue, related to real or potential impacts based on developments and/or trends in the electricity industry and other energy markets with a focus on integration.
• Provide leadership within the group towards the provision of guidance and direction to management on the relevance of evaluation results.
• Act as a project leader on projects related to market development initiatives. This may include the management of external consultants retained for the same.
• Prepare and review contingency plans for problems and situations that might occur, establish a course of action to accomplish long term goals.
• Assess and link short-term analysis to long term strategies; consider whether short-term goals will meet long term market development objectives. Examine the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projections.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of developments in market theory and in current or proposed methods for energy trade, accreditation and assessment. Peruse academic, technical and financial reports, studies, books, journals etc, dealing with various aspects of energy markets. Keep abreast of technological developments and best practices in the industry as they apply to electricity markets.
• Analyze and review market development plans with the OEB and government agencies.
• Review and analyze input from Compliance Section and Market Assessment Units and incorporate findings into market development plans.
• Coordinate and align market design and development plans with the IESO business development plans.
• Evaluate…