What You’ll Be Doing

Cadmus seeks an Energy Efficiency Evaluation and Market Studies Director to join our Market Characterization & Evaluation team in the Energy Services Division. The ideal candidate must be talented, motivated, intellectually curious, and flexible and have experience leading market studies, market transformation initiatives, and evolving energy-efficiency programs and measures to meet the needs of next generation decarbonization programs. In this role, you will lead our evaluations and market studies of emerging technology programs that are designed to change markets permanently by making clean energy solutions the norm.

This role is expected to manage and conduct primary and secondary research on behalf of Cadmus’ energy clients (primarily utilities and administrators of energy efficiency programs). This role will be responsible for managing projects, executing market research and analysis, and managing the creation of written reports of findings. This role will lead market research activities, lead junior staff, implement strict quality control and quality assurance, and compile and communicate results to internal and external stakeholders.

The ideal candidate should have professional experience in program evaluation, social science research methods, market transformation initiatives, and evaluating emerging technologies, and experience working in the California regulatory environment. They should also be highly motivated to perform and learn, be able to work collaboratively and independently, manage assigned tasks and projects start to finish with minimal input from supervisors, and have exceptional written, verbal, and analytical skills. We are looking for candidates with strong market research skills who have demonstrated experience with emerging technologies and market effects and program attribution studies.

Responsibilities

• High-quality management, performance, and oversight of Cadmus’ market research projects.
• Design and lead research plans and processes, including data collection activities, data analysis, and synthesis of research findings and development of actionable recommendations for client consideration.
• Develop and refine models to predict energy usage and environmental impacts across various sectors, including residential and commercial buildings, transportation, industrial, and agriculture.
• Lead sensitivity and uncertainty analyses to investigate the effects of input parameters, model design choices, and potential errors on outputs, while measuring how changes in assumptions impact model predictions.
• Lead the ideation and execution of business development activities, including cultivating existing client relationships to expand existing work and supporting Cadmus in creating proposals.
• Nurturing and building existing client relationships as a primary point of contact. Providing clear and consistent communication on projects and raising any concerns or issues.
• Essential project management activities including budget tracking, invoicing, project planning, staff balancing, and resource management.
• Developing and communicating detailed reports and presentations of results, findings, methodologies, and data sources, in addition to providing clear, actionable recommendations to clients.
• Active communication with and coordination of project teams, providing constructive feedback and managing expectations.
• Ongoing communication with Cadmus Energy Services leadership and support teams, including accounting, accounts payable, contracts, and operations regarding the health and status of all projects and tasks.
• Communicate professionally (oral and written) with colleagues and clients, in varying time zones

CLICK HERE to read the full job ad to apply.