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Job Posting End Date

06-26-2024

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Job Summary

The Vice President, NERC Reliability Assurance is responsible for providing strategic leadership to AEP’s multi- region, multi-registration, multi-subsidiary NERC reliability compliance program. Provides program-wide strategic alignment, coordination, oversight, communication, advocacy and compliance assurance activities to ensure AEP’s reliability compliance program maintains a consistent, effective, and efficient approach across the enterprise.

Job Description

Principal Accountabilities

• Accountable for ensuring AEP’s NERC Reliability Assurance Program achieves its mission, vision and strategic objectives

• Partner with executive leadership and stakeholders to establish strategy and tactics for managing compliance and associated risks, aligning understanding of AEP’s risk appetite across the enterprise

• Champions efforts across the enterprise to achieve operational excellence in reliability and NERC compliance

• Develops and cultivates relationships with NERC and Regional Stakeholders

• Governs, develops and executes policies, guidelines, standards and procedures supporting reliability compliance

• Executes strategies to manage potential impacts of NERC related federal legislative issues impacting reliability and security of the grid

• Supports corporate strategic objectives through collaboration, consensus building, and alignment of NERC related topics to broader issues

• Provides leadership and direction for the continuous improvement and refinement of the company’s NERC Reliability Assurance initiatives

• Ensures independent oversight is maintained in evaluating AEP’s compliance to the NERC standards

• Ensures appropriate metrics are established and maintained to monitor controls and compliance to the NERC standards

• Oversees the execution of regional audits to ensure compliance to the NERC standards

• Ensures appropriate training and development is established for compliance of existing, new and revised NERC compliance standards

• Responsible for the executions of AEPs NERC compliance multi-tiered governance structure

• Advocates for a strong reliability and compliance culture through daily leadership, communication and behavior through a high level of interface with the organization

• Exercises leadership responsibilities, including assignment of work, priority-setting, promotions, coaching, disciplinary actions, evaluating individual and organizational performance, and training

Minimum Requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's degree

Experience:

• Minimum ten years' experience in management or leadership role in the utility industry

• Experience in staff development and budget management

• Experience in federal operations regulations is a plus but not required

• Demonstrated ability to be an effective transformative leader that values collaboration

• Demonstrated ability to implement and execute corporate strategy pertaining to compliance

• Possess a solid understanding and commitment to the Electric Reliability Organization construct including Reliability Standards and requirements, Rules of Procedure and governance

• Possess a solid understanding of NERC compliance execution in relation to utility practices

• Possess a general understanding of governance, risk management and compliance

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Compensation Data

Compensation Grade:

SP20-013

Compensation Range:

$210,822.00-274,067.00 USD

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