Senior Advisor, Clean Energy Infrastructure

Job Description

The Agency You’ll Join

The New York City Mayor’s Office is responsible for overseeing city services throughout the five
boroughs, coordinating public agencies and departments, and managing public property. New York City
Mayor Eric Adams is head of the executive branch of New York City's government. Previously, Mayor
Adams has served the people of New York City as an NYPD officer, state senator, and Brooklyn borough
president. The Adams’ administration is leading the fight to serve the people of the greatest city in the
world, ensuring delivery of efficient and effective services, working to make New York City’s economy
stronger, reducing inequality, improving public safety, and making the city more affordable that meets
the needs of all New Yorkers. We value leadership, transparency, fairness, and efficiency as we actively
seek diverse talents from various sectors to join our team.

The Team You’ll Work With

The Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) works to protect New Yorkers from
the threats of climate change and extreme weather by creating and advancing policies, programs,
and projects that secure the city while making our critical infrastructure cleaner and more reliable.
We strengthen our defenses, tackle the sources of pollution, and provide resources to all New
Yorkers so that our businesses, families, and communities can thrive in healthy and safe
neighborhoods.

MOCEJ is committed to improving environmental quality for all, prioritizing front-line communities,
and seeking to redress current and past injustices and inequities while creating economic
opportunities for all. Through science-based analysis, policy and program development, and capacity
building, MOCEJ leads the City’s efforts to ensure that New York City is minimizing its contributions to
climate change, preparing to adapt and protect New Yorkers from extreme weather and multiple
climate hazards, and giving every New Yorker a meaningful voice in our city’s future.

The Clean Energy Team’s focus is to advocate for and implement policies and programs that
accelerate a reliable, sustainable, and just clean energy transition. This includes connecting to largescale renewables, retiring in city fossil-fuel-fired infrastructure, advocating for affordable and reliable energy, ensuring access to distributed energy resources, and building out the clean energy economy.


The Problems You’ll Solve

The Senior Advisor for Clean Energy Infrastructure will play a critical role in providing strategic
guidance and support across a range of initiatives within MOCEJ. Reporting to the Deputy Director of
Clean Energy, this role will lead the City's policy, advocacy, and coordination on gas transition, and
electric infrastructure, and identify innovative solutions to support NYC's transition to clean energy.
- Provide strategic guidance and support to MOCEJ leadership on key initiatives and priorities
with a special focus on energy infrastructure, pathways to reducing dependence on natural gas,
and electrification.
- Lead MOCEJ’s efforts on electric grid infrastructure planning by coordinating across utilities,
state and city agencies, stakeholders, and experts to ensure the grid is ready for the City’s
future economic growth and large-scale building and transportation electrification. Incorporate
building and transportation electrification, climate resiliency planning, reliability, and energy
affordability into the strategy.
- Coordinate with City, State, and Federal agencies; developers; communities; and stakeholders
on offshore wind interconnection projects and transmission projects delivering renewable
energy to NYC.
- Facilitate interagency coordination for transmission planning and siting.
- Represent MOCEJ priorities for the strategic phase-down of the gas system to minimize new
investments in gas infrastructure, optimize retrofits, and ensure that low-income New Yorkers
are not left behind to bear the costs of a shrinking gas system.
- Ensure that energy infrastructure planning and investments are equitable and affirmatively
address historic disinvestments and disproportionate burdens placed on environmental justice
communities and integrate environmental justice into energy infrastructure planning and
decision-making, working with MOCEJ’s Environmental Justice Team.
- Conduct in-depth research and analysis of innovative technology, policy frameworks, and
financial mechanisms relevant to climate solutions, clean energy and infrastructure, utility
rates, resiliency, and environmental justice.
- Support the development of new forward-looking policies and initiatives, as necessary advance
best practices on climate, air quality, and environmental justice action fo