Ratepayer Advocacy Analyst (JC-527784

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Job Code #: JC-527784

Position #(s): -002

Working Title: Ratepayer Advocacy Analyst

Classification: PUBLIC UTILITIES REGULATORY ANALYST III

Salary Range: $7,980.00 - $9,994.00

Effective July 1, 2025, CalHR launched the Personal Leave Program (PLP) 2025 with Pay Differential 386. PLP 2025 temporarily reduces state employee pay in exchange for leave hours to help address budget shortfalls. Salary ranges in this posting exclude the temporary reduction. For details, visit CalHR’s Personnel Leave Program (PLP) page.

New to State candidates will be hired into the minimum salary of the classification or minimum of alternate range when applicable.

# of Positions: 1

Work Location: Sacramento County

Telework: Hybrid

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Public Advocates Office Division/Safety  .|Safety Policy

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The Safety Branch within the Public Advocates Office is seeking a Public Utilities Regulatory Analyst III to join its Safety Policy team. The Analyst will primarily work to support the advocacy work of the Public Advocates Office in proceedings addressing utility wildfire risk reduction. Both the Commission and the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety hold proceedings to consider various aspects of wildfire safety;

the Analyst will advocate for alignment of wildfire risk mitigation efforts across these proceedings. This will include reviewing Risk Asset Mitigation Phase and General Rate Case proceedings at the Commission, as well as Wildfire Mitigation Plans at the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety. The Analyst will make recommendations in these proceedings to promote consistency between the two agencies’ risk evaluation frameworks, and to ensure that ratepayers are getting cost effective wildfire mitigation and are not unfairly burdened by unsustainable rate increases.

The Analyst will also represent the Public Advocates Office in wildfire cost recovery and securitization proceedings. California’s investor owned utilities are increasingly relying on complex securitization instruments to satisfy wildfire liabilities. The Analyst will represent the Public Advocates Office in…