Analyst Program

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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!

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 Demand Side Management (Energy Conservation) division within the Power System Development Business Unit.

What makes this role exciting

The energy sector is rapidly evolving, offering exciting new opportunities for those who want to make a difference especially those in Ontario's First Nation communities.

The Analyst, Program Performance, under the direction of the Supervisor, Program Performance, is responsible for providing assistance for the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of demand side management programs for the IESO, including Save on Energy programs, specifically current and new programs for First Nation communities and residential programs for locally constrained areas, to address the needs of Ontario’s power system and electricity consumers.

This individual is responsible for supporting administrative responsibilities, including those related to the administration of contract obligations, milestone management, payment processing and compliance, as well as customer service. The role will also assist in activities that may contribute to program design, procurement, program delivery, business development, technical review, communications and other types of support to achieve program energy and demand savings targets within established budgets.

What you’ll do

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

Leadership

• Provide support to Advisors and others on the Program Performance teams
• Provide advice on proposed new or improved operating processes that would result in gaining efficiencies or improving ratepayer value
• Assist in maintaining knowledge and awareness of innovation, technological developments, best practices and market transformation activities in the industry
• Support the development of recommendations to support the continuous improvement and evolution of demand side management programs

Design

• Assist in analysis to support program design, including program concepts, measures and behavior, customer and market characteristics, barriers and opportunities, participation forecasting, cost-effectiveness tests and business case development
• Assist in the analysis to recommend and establish incentive levels for various energy saving measures, as well as to establish appropriate budgets for programs
• On an ongoing basis, assist to review the effectiveness of existing processes and recommend changes to processes, systems, procedures and market-facing documents and qualify new opportunities, emerging technologies and delivery models for inclusion in program design, as necessary

Delivery

• Support program management, including administration and evolution of program rules, participant contracts, calculation…