CALIBRE Systems, Inc., an employee-owned Management Consulting and Digital Transformation company, is seeking a Senior Army Energy Utility & Financial Advisor.

The U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives (OEI) is the central management office for the business case development and execution of large-scale (>10MW) renewable and alternative energy security projects with preferred financing through private capital investment. OEI uses existing Department of Defense (DoD) authorities, including those for power purchase agreements (PPA), enhanced use leases (EUL) and easements, to attract private capital investment.

Selected candidate will serve as a part of the OEI Opportunity Development and Project Execution teams, which are responsible for identifying the vetting new resilience project opportunities and then developing those opportunities into energy security/resiliency projects to meet the mission-specific requirements beginning with the Energy Security Assessment (ESA) reports and Installation Energy and Water Plans (IEWP), identifying specific energy security projects for third-party financing or alternative funding sources.  Once a potentially viable project and funding source is available, the project moves to the acquisition process into actual projects for construction using third-party financing and/or direct investment. 

Specific support will include advising on advanced utility and financial impacts of various current and potential resiliency projects.  Selected individual will remain involved throughout the development and execution process to provide expertise on how utilities will perceive the costs and benefits of a proposed project.  Selected individual will provide insight on novel financial approaches that make a proposed project more attractive to industry or the Army.  For current projects, selected individual will review current performance of projects and provide insight on how to enhance them or how to explain why the projects are exceeding or falling short of project financial benefits.  The Utility & Financial Advisor (a senior position within CALIBRE) will support the OEI Directors of Execution and Project Development.  Support activities include:

• Review current projects at key elements in the execution process where they may be addressing utility or financial hurdles
• Actively participate in opportunity development discussions to identify potential utility and financial challenges before they arise
• Support Army review meetings that require in-depth utility or financial expertise
• Speak regularly with the Executive Director of OEI to think through potential challenges with proposed projects and advise on global Army and industry challenges as it pertains to utilities or the financial community

Report monthly on the above activities

Required Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills to provide leadership to, collaborate and work with diverse team
• Strong analytical skills to assess viability of potential renewable and alternative energy resilience project opportunities, as part of a team of engineers and finance professionals
• Strong communication skills to clearly and succinctly provide recurring and ad-hoc project updates and synthesizing information for key decision briefs and procurement actions
• Demonstrated excellent writing skills
• Demonstrated success working in a fast-paced, project-centric environment
• Solid skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Required Experience

• Selected candidate must have experience with the Army and a deep understanding of utilities, the finance community, and Federal government contracting. 
• A Bachelor’s degree is required along with more than 20 years of experience in energy finance. 
• Direct work for a utility or related experience that affords the individual deep insight into how utilities operate and make decisions about project financing. 
• Selected candidate will have a least 10 years of experience supporting government contracting projects and a good understanding of the relationship between the government and the energy industry. 
• Successful candidate must have or be able to obtain a DoD Secret security clearance

• Strong interpersonal skills to provide leadership to, collaborate and work with diverse team
• Strong analytical skills to assess viability of potential renewable and alternative energy resilience project opportunities, as part of a team of engineers and finance professionals
• Strong communication skills to clearly and succinctly provide recurring and ad-hoc project updates and synthesizing information for key decision briefs and procurement actions
• Demonstrated excellent writing skills
• Demonstrated success working in a fast-paced, project-centric environment
• Solid skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint)