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National Grid Ventures is hiring a Senior Risk Analyst for our US Offshore Wind development. The hybrid role can be located in our Brooklyn, NY, or Boston, MA office.

Job Purpose

National Grid Ventures (NGV) is at the forefront of the energy transition. We operate across the UK, Europe and the US, developing, operating, and investing in large-scale clean energy infrastructure. We’re helping to accelerate society’s drive towards net zero while maintaining security of supply today. This role is focused on NGV’s US Northeast Offshore Development work and risk management.

As a Senior strategic risk analyst within the Offshore Development team NGV US Northeast, you will support risk and planning activities for offshore wind development the Offshore Development team. The Risk Management team is responsible for ensuring critical risks, mitigations and decision points are identified, anticipated, and presented to executive leadership to produce better outcomes for the offshore development portfolio. This role is a unique opportunity to work with a highly dynamic, commercially driven team; to interact with and influence c-suite level decision makers, identify and solve complex challenges facing offshore wind, and enable large-scale offshore wind and transmission developments to move forward. This role reports to the Offshore Capital Projects Risk Manager.

Key Accountabilities

The Risk Management team is newly minted, and will require strategic thinkers and self-starters with strong analytical, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills. Main accountabilities include:

• Conduct market research and internal stakeholder interviews to identify progress or risks against strategic objectives and document findings on an on-going basis

• Develop high-level qualitative, and in some cases quantitative, analysis to explain progress against strategic objectives and identify emerging risks

• Help identify top risks and work with manager to develop management recommendations

• Design and contribute to executive-level communication materials including PowerPoint presentations and written reports

• Facilitate workshops and challenge sessions by coordinating, documenting, and structuring discussions

• Engage with internal stakeholders to track progress on risk resolution activities and support advancement of objectives

• Collaborate on roadmap building and other planning activities

Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree and 4-7 years of relevant experience

• Detail-oriented with solid written communication skills

• Ability to juggle multiple high priority tasks, have strong prioritization and organizational skills

• Ability to work and be flexible in a fast-paced environment

• Some knowledge of US power industry structures, policies, regulations & market fundamentals

• Familiarity with recent trends in conventional generation, offshore wind, energy storage, transmission & distributed generation

• Experience working with or in the power sector or leading modeling projects in a consulting or corporate work environment

• Risk management experience is a plus

• Experience developing presentation materials for an executive audience preferred

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Salary

Downstate NY: $99,000 - $117,000 a year

New England MA: $93,000 - $109,000 a year

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise.  We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve.  National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.