[Hiring] Permitting Policy Director @Permit Power

Role Description

Co-lead Permit Power’s policy development to simplify and streamline permitting, inspection, HOAs, building codes, and product standards to dramatically lower the cost and accelerate the adoption of residential rooftop solar, plug-in solar, and home batteries.

We are looking for a Permitting Policy Director to co-lead our agenda to remove bureaucratic barriers for residential rooftop solar, plug-in solar, and home batteries including:

• Streamlining permitting
• Inspection
• Homeowner association approvals
• Codes and standards

In partnership with Permit Power’s advocacy staff, you’ll serve as a core part of our team to:

• Drive legislative change
• Lead and participate in coalition efforts
• Be an internal expert and external thought leader on permit streamlining

A significant portion of your work will likely focus on policies derived from the values of property rights, small government, and consumer choice in conservative and purple states.

You will report to the Chief of Policy.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing Permit Power's permitting policy agenda
• Overseeing the bill-to-law cycle
• Building and driving coalitions
• Serving as the subject matter expert
• Evaluating compliance and implementation
• Managing external research and consultants

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in policy development, legislative advocacy, and/or regulatory affairs related to solar, construction, permitting, or government efficiency.
• Track record of successfully developing and executing policy agendas that lead to tangible outcomes, particularly within the state legislative arenas.
• Sufficient technical expertise with relevant engineering concepts (e.g., electrical, structural, and/or fire safety).
• Experience testifying before, interfacing with, and developing materials for policymakers.
• Demonstrated ability to build coalitions and partner with stakeholders to achieve policy goals.
• Ability to translate complex technical and engineering concepts into clear, accessible language and materials for policymakers, advocates, and the public.
• Relationships with energy policy organizations, the building industry, technical consultants, research firms, and think tanks.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial and self-directed.
• Outcomes-oriented.
• Collaborative and low-ego.
• Flexible and open-minded.
• Organized and detail-oriented.
• Willing to travel for team meetings and periodic partner meetings, hearings, and conferences several times a year.

Benefits

• Salary range: $135,000-160,000.
• Generous and comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, dental insurance, vision care, pre-tax commuter benefits, FSA, 401k with 5% contribution matching (limits apply).
• 6 months of paid maternity or paternity leave to bond with a newborn or adopted child within the first year of birth or adoption.
• Fully remote team open to candidates anywhere in the U.S.

Company Description

Permit Power is an energy affordability non-profit on a mission to make it cheap and easy for American families to power their lives by cutting the red tape that makes home solar and batteries so expensive.

We are a small but ambitious team that advances common-sense policy fixes in states around the country to modernize processes like permitting and utility interconnection to allow tens of millions more American families to produce their own affordable electricity.