Program Director - State Energy Programs

**Job Overview:** The **State Energy Program Director** will be responsible for launching and delivering a state HOMES and HEEHR program. The **State Energy Program Director** will work closely with the National Director and Program Directors to oversee, coordinate, and drive strategic initiatives within the program in addition to providing oversight of day-to-day operations. This is a high-impact, fast-paced role that requires exceptional organizational, leadership, and communication skills. The Director will be responsible for on-time delivery of program launch and execution of goals while providing high quality work aligned to U.S. Department Of Energy (DOE) requirements. This individual will also be responsible for managing subcontractors to ensure a seamless implementation team. APTIM’s Energy Transition team is a recognized leader in the marketplace. Our energy experts deliver highly innovative projects and complex client solutions providing the full breadth of solutions including energy efficiency, energy management, carbon management, smart infrastructure, and distributed energy resources (DER). Our consultants proactively collaborate with clients to define and implement strategies and programs around key business drivers, with the primary focus of finding and delivering high impact outcomes that exceed expectations and meet the unique needs of our government, utility, and commercial clients. This position will be responsible for making high-level and impactful decisions to define the path forward, providing strategic guidance and support to resolve barriers and find innovative solutions. The **State Energy Program Director** will provide leadership to the implementation team and be a main point of contact to the client. This role will lead a team to proactively collaborate to define and implement strategies and campaigns around key client drivers, with the primary focus of delivering projects in the market that meet U.S. Department Of Energy and State Energy Office governance and program requirements, exceed expectations and drive market transformation. **Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities:** - Act as primary liaison between the client, program staff, state-wide stakeholders, and corporate management to maintain a highly collaborative and operationally efficient environment. - Manage two related programs, strategies, budgets having high complexity in a coordinated way to optimize benefits, minimize risk and control outcomes across the portfolio. - Continuously improve strategies, designs and operations to ensure the program maintains excellence or improves on KPIs, including customer satisfaction, energy savings and cost-effectiveness. - Ensure work is performed safely, ethically, within budget, according to client requirements and schedule and with exceptional quality. - Prepare effective communications (e.g., memos, presentations, analysis) to support program policy changes, critical management decisions, corrective actions, or other key decisions. - Maintain communication with APTIM leadership, escalating key issues in a timely manner to garner support, bringing insights, guidance and/or resources back to the program team as appropriate. - Analyze contractual and financial performance and direct activities to improve performance. - Provide leadership, support, and actively participate in relevant industry and stakeholder groups. - Keep abreast of DOE guidelines and developments to ensure ongoing program compliance and success. - Keep abreast of economic, policy and technology developments and changes related to energy and energy efficiency both locally and nationally. - Assume responsibility for identifying and capitalizing upon new opportunities for enhancing the program and services in alignment with evolving client, market, or customer needs. - Allocate and manage staff and resources to meet objectives and continuously investigate and implement ways to improve operational efficiency. - Lead an internal team,…