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Public Utilities Administrative Hearings Coordinator – Department of Administrative Services
Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
Are you an experienced administrative professional interested in energy policy, the clean energy transition or utility regulation? If so, we invite you to consider this opportunity!
What We Can Offer You
Medical and dental insurance plans, sick/vacation/personal leave accruals, state holidays, tuition reimbursement, and more.
Professional growth and development opportunities.
A healthy work/life balance for all employees.
This position will report directly to the supervisor of PURA’s Strategy and Operations Unit, providing critical operational support within PURA’s Office of Technical and Regulatory Analysis. The coordinator will be expected to assist in matters related to PURA’s quasi-judicial administrative docket system, including interfacing with internal and external stakeholders, organizing and posting docket filings, and coordinating with staff to schedule and facilitate proceedings.
Duties of this position include, but are not limited to:
Works closely with technical and legal staff on administrative dockets to ensure timely resolution.
Identifies and defines improved operational strategies for consideration.
Manages and ensures the efficiency and productivity of the agency’s docketed proceedings through collaboration with senior management and department leaders, performing an array of administrative tasks from managing calendars, generating correspondence, maintaining hard copy and electronic files.
This position is hybrid with in-office attendance located at Ten Franklin Square, New Britain, CT. This position is 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
About PURA
PURA is divided into multiple offices, each specializing in the execution of different portions of PURA’s broad statutory authority and mission statement to ensure safe, adequate, and reliable utility service at reasonable rates. PURA is responsible for regulating the many aspects of Connecticut's utility sectors, which can be categorized into three key buckets:
Innovation
Pursuing the prudent and innovative modernization of the electric, natural gas, and water systems through regulatory reform.
Sustainability
Directing the design and implementation of multiple clean energy programs including renewable energy deployment, electric vehicle charging, battery storage, and innovation pilots in pursuit of Connecticut’s climate and energy policy goals.
Coordinating with diverse stakeholders including utilities, other state agencies, community advocates, environmental groups, developers, private industry, and citizens to ensure equitable and affordable access to all programs and services.
Accountability
Ensuring that the utilities charge only fair and equitable rates.
Implementing performance-based regulation of the state’s utility companies.
Overseeing investment in the state’s utility infrastructure to promote service quality, reliability, and safety.
Implementing federal requirements for natural gas pipeline safety.
Examples of Duties
Prepares and monitors master schedule, charting progress of each application or petition filed with department.
Assures investigations required by statute are initiated on time.
Reviews applications for conformance to laws and regulations.
Prepares timetables for individual cases coordinating schedules of professional staff, commissioners, and applicants throughout decision making process, monitoring progress, adjusting timetable and recommending overtime work for timely issuance of decision.
Reviews scheduling, notices of hearings, and routine correspondence for accuracy and statutory compliance.
Confers with professional staff and company representatives in preparing hearing plans.
Coordinates staff work, assuring responsibilities are clearly allocated among departments.
Prepares advance outline of decision, showing responsibility for writing each section.
Drafts decisions from applications, transcripts, and other written documents for commissioners' approval or, in the more complex cases, coordinates drafting of a decision, reviewing sections written by professional staff to ensure clarity.
Drafts legal notices and other correspondence.
Serves as liaison between legal and technical staff to ensure proper and complete administrative record is set forth in analysis sections to support conclusions reached in decision.
Coordinates staff to ensure compliance with department decisions.
May preside over pre-hearing conferences.
Performs related duties as required.
Knowledge, Skill, and Ability
Knowledge of and ability to interpret and apply relevant agency statutes and regulations.
Knowledge of engineering, accounting, economic, legal, and financial terminology and issues related to public utility regulations.
Interpersonal skills.
Oral and written communication skills.
Ability to utilize computer software.
Minimum Qualifications – General Experience
Six (6) years of experience involving the application or administration of statutes or regulations dealing with a regulatory agency or regulated business.
Minimum Qualifications – Substitutions Allowed
College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equaling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of four (4) years for a Bachelor’s degree.
A law degree from an accredited school of law may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the General Experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with project management, including communicating and coordinating with more than two team members to achieve a goal.
Experience with scheduling simultaneous events.
Experience with database management.
Experience with Microsoft Office 365 applications.
Experience with communicating with the public and representatives of corporations or other organizations.
Experience with drafting legal documents and handling confidential information.
Experience managing two or more projects simultaneously while working independently.
Conclusion
An affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
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Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
Are you an experienced administrative professional interested in energy policy, the clean energy transition or utility regulation? If so, we invite you to consider this opportunity!
What We Can Offer You
Medical and dental insurance plans, sick/vacation/personal leave accruals, state holidays, tuition reimbursement, and more.
Professional growth and development opportunities.
A healthy work/life balance for all employees.
This position will report directly to the supervisor of PURA’s Strategy and Operations Unit, providing critical operational support within PURA’s Office of Technical and Regulatory Analysis. The coordinator will be expected to assist in matters related to PURA’s quasi-judicial administrative docket system, including interfacing with internal and external stakeholders, organizing and posting docket filings, and coordinating with staff to schedule and facilitate proceedings.
Duties of this position include, but are not limited to:
Works closely with technical and legal staff on administrative dockets to ensure timely resolution.
Identifies and defines improved operational strategies for consideration.
Manages and ensures the efficiency and productivity of the agency’s docketed proceedings through collaboration with senior management and department leaders, performing an array of administrative tasks from managing calendars, generating correspondence, maintaining hard copy and electronic files.
This position is hybrid with in-office attendance located at Ten Franklin Square, New Britain, CT. This position is 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
About PURA
PURA is divided into multiple offices, each specializing in the execution of different portions of PURA’s broad statutory authority and mission statement to ensure safe, adequate, and reliable utility service at reasonable rates. PURA is responsible for regulating the many aspects of Connecticut's utility sectors, which can be categorized into three key buckets:
Innovation
Pursuing the prudent and innovative modernization of the electric, natural gas, and water systems through regulatory reform.
Sustainability
Directing the design and implementation of multiple clean energy programs including renewable energy deployment, electric vehicle charging, battery storage, and innovation pilots in pursuit of Connecticut’s climate and energy policy goals.
Coordinating with diverse stakeholders including utilities, other state agencies, community advocates, environmental groups, developers, private industry, and citizens to ensure equitable and affordable access to all programs and services.
Accountability
Ensuring that the utilities charge only fair and equitable rates.
Implementing performance-based regulation of the state’s utility companies.
Overseeing investment in the state’s utility infrastructure to promote service quality, reliability, and safety.
Implementing federal requirements for natural gas pipeline safety.
Examples of Duties
Prepares and monitors master schedule, charting progress of each application or petition filed with department.
Assures investigations required by statute are initiated on time.
Reviews applications for conformance to laws and regulations.
Prepares timetables for individual cases coordinating schedules of professional staff, commissioners, and applicants throughout decision making process, monitoring progress, adjusting timetable and recommending overtime work for timely issuance of decision.
Reviews scheduling, notices of hearings, and routine correspondence for accuracy and statutory compliance.
Confers with professional staff and company representatives in preparing hearing plans.
Coordinates staff work, assuring responsibilities are clearly allocated among departments.
Prepares advance outline of decision, showing responsibility for writing each section.
Drafts decisions from applications, transcripts, and other written documents for commissioners' approval or, in the more complex cases, coordinates drafting of a decision, reviewing sections written by professional staff to ensure clarity.
Drafts legal notices and other correspondence.
Serves as liaison between legal and technical staff to ensure proper and complete administrative record is set forth in analysis sections to support conclusions reached in decision.
Coordinates staff to ensure compliance with department decisions.
May preside over pre-hearing conferences.
Performs related duties as required.
Knowledge, Skill, and Ability
Knowledge of and ability to interpret and apply relevant agency statutes and regulations.
Knowledge of engineering, accounting, economic, legal, and financial terminology and issues related to public utility regulations.
Interpersonal skills.
Oral and written communication skills.
Ability to utilize computer software.
Minimum Qualifications – General Experience
Six (6) years of experience involving the application or administration of statutes or regulations dealing with a regulatory agency or regulated business.
Minimum Qualifications – Substitutions Allowed
College training may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equaling one-half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of four (4) years for a Bachelor’s degree.
A law degree from an accredited school of law may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the General Experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with project management, including communicating and coordinating with more than two team members to achieve a goal.
Experience with scheduling simultaneous events.
Experience with database management.
Experience with Microsoft Office 365 applications.
Experience with communicating with the public and representatives of corporations or other organizations.
Experience with drafting legal documents and handling confidential information.
Experience managing two or more projects simultaneously while working independently.
Conclusion
An affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.
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