Senior Advisor, Clean Energy

The Agency You’ll Join:
The New York City Mayor’s Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. The administration is leading the fight in making the city more affordable, reducing inequality, improving public safety, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, and working to make New York City’s economy stronger. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team. For current job opportunities, visit our careers page.

The Team You’ll Work With:
MOCEJ is committed to improving environmental quality for all, prioritizing front-line communities, seeking to redress current and past injustices and inequities while creating economic opportunities for all. Through science-based analysis, policy and program development, and capacity building, MOCEJ leads the City’s efforts to ensure that New York City is minimizing its contributions to climate change, preparing to adapt and protect New Yorkers from extreme weather and multiple climate hazards, and giving every New Yorker a meaningful voice in our city’s future.

The Problems You’ll Solve:
As part of MOCEJ’s Clean Energy Team, the Senior Advisor will provide legal and policy expertise to support the City’s clean energy initiatives, regulatory engagement, and legislative priorities.

Under the supervision of the Deputy Director of Clean Energy, the Senior Advisor will work closely with MOCEJ teams and the NYC Law Department to provide legal and policy guidance on a range of complex environmental and energy matters. This role will support the development and implementation of City priorities related to clean energy, climate policy, and regulatory strategy, and will liaise with the Law Department and attorneys for the City and Mayoral offices on complex environmental and energy issues.

The Senior Advisor will help ensure that MOCEJ’s policies, programs, and initiatives comply with applicable laws and regulations while advancing the City’s climate and clean energy goals.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Ensure that policies, projects, and programs implemented by MOCEJ are compliant with Federal, State, and local laws.
- Review and draft agreements with City, State, Federal, and private entities, including grant agreements, procurement contracts, Project Partnership Agreements, MOUs, and NDAs.
- Conduct research and analysis of specific legal questions and prepare memoranda and opinions setting forth research results, recommendations, and conclusions across a variety of environmental and energy law areas.
- Administer the City’s participation in energy regulatory proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the New York State Public Service Commission, coordinating across City agencies to inform priorities, managing submission of deliverables with the City’s outside energy counsel and Law Department, and reviewing City submissions for legal and substantive content.
- Review new legislation and regulations and support the development of City comments on Federal and State proposed regulations that impact MOCEJ projects, policies, or initiatives.
- Lead legislative initiatives, including drafting legislative proposals, drafting legislation, and memoranda in support or opposition to introduced legislation.
- Provide legal and policy analysis to support the City’s clean energy transition, including renewable energy deployment, grid modernization, and regulatory strategy.
- Support officewide efforts to ensure compliance with the City’s Information Privacy Law.
- Support the development of protocols needed to manage legal risk and support the effective functioning of MOCEJ programs and initiatives.
- Support the NYC Law Department with the legal and administrative aspects of litigation, including the litigation process.
- Provide legal expertise and support officewide efforts to ensure compliance with the City’s Conflicts of Interest Board rules, including drafting gift, travel, and board memoranda.
- Perform other duties as needed.

About You:
- You can demonstrate familiarity with New York City procurement laws and processes, including procurement policy board rules.
- You can demonstrate familiarity with environmental or energy laws and regulations at a federal, state, or local level.
- You can demonstrate familiarity with federal and state grant funding processes and compliance requirements.

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