Description
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
If you are an effective lawyer ready for a rewarding new role, we encourage you to apply.
Starting July 1, 2026, this position monitors, analyzes, and advises the Wyoming Public Service Commission (WPSC) to develop a strategy and related documents pertaining to rulemaking, adjudicative proceedings, and emerging issues concerning Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulation of the bulk power system. In addition, this position participates in Regional Transmission Organization and Independent System Operator activities, including a variety of boards, committees, and ad hoc organizations. The position will develop comments on proposed federal tariffs, other filings, and developing positions and reflective documents consistent with the interests of Wyoming utility customers and state policy. This position exercises advanced professional judgement and strategic legal reasoning with minimal supervision to identify, investigate, monitor and analyze extremely specialized and complex FERC cases and other proceedings, conducts legal research of FERC cases, including constitutional concepts, systematically develops and maintains an in-depth understanding of Wyoming’s FERC and other regional electric grid related interests, and communicates issues, strategies and options to WPSC Commissioners, drafts and submits comments, position statements and other legal documents to FERC, including, in cooperation with the Attorney General’s Office, appellate proceedings and arguments before FERC. The position will also monitor, prepare comments, legal documents, advise the WPSC, and take such action as necessary in any other federal agency proceeding related to the WPSC’s jurisdiction. The WPSC necessarily participates in various regional energy efforts to plan, construct, and operate the generation and transmission system in the Western Interconnection. These efforts generally address issues that are ultimately determined or heavily influenced by FERC and other federal agencies. These regional matters have direct effects on the quantity and type of generation constructed in the future, including how existing generation resources are dispatched, their frequency and duration of operation, and who will pay for the generation and transmission. These FERC-adjacent regional matters, just as with direct FERC proceedings, can have a profound effect on Wyoming ratepayers, Wyoming’s energy future, and consequently, the state’s economy in general. This position bolsters Wyoming’s ability to effectively participate in these matters, working closely with the WPSC Regional Analyst and the Commissioners to ensure Wyoming’s interests are protected and advanced in these matters.
The State of Wyoming’s total compensation package is excellent and includes:
Paid annual and sick leave
Paid holidays
Retirement with employer contributions
Deferred Compensation Plan with employer contributions
Health insurance with an employer contribution toward premiums
Insurance options for health, dental, life, vision, ambulance, and short and long-term disability
Longevity pay
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Human Resource Contact: Serenity Moffett / [email protected] / 307-777-6243
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The listed functions are illustrative only and are not intended to describe every function that may be performed in the job level.
Monitors, analyzes, and advises the WPSC to develop strategy and related documents pertaining to rulemaking, adjudicative proceedings, and emerging issues related to FERC regulation of the bulk power system.
Represents WPSC interests and manages complex matters in FERC proceedings, handles complex factual, legal, and procedural FERC-related cases/issues.
Acts as a policy and legal advisor for federal regulation to the WPSC; produces comments, legal documents, briefs, motions, and other pleadings or documents.
Conducts legal research; appearing before FERC in proceedings to present WPSC interests and positions pertinent to the State of Wyoming and its ratepayers related to items such as transmission planning and cost allocation, large load interconnection, and other aspects of the bulk power system.
Works with the WPSC Regional Policy Advisor and the Commissioners to ensure representation of Wyoming’s interests in these matters, conducting innovative legal analysis, devising strategy, lending FERC expertise, and providing professional and strategic legal advice to the WPSC in federal regulatory matters.
Participates in Regional Transmission Organization and Independent System Operator activities, including a variety of boards, committees, and ad hoc organizations, developing positions and documents consistent with the interests of Wyoming utility customers and state policy.
Works with the Regional Economic Analyst and Commissioners on regional issues, compiling legal research combined with complex analysis of issues, comments, filings, etc.
Participates in regional energy issues and other matters ultimately determined by FERC, such as regional transmission issues, including efforts to establish one or more Regional Transmission Organizations or Independent System Operators in the Western Interconnection, regional coordination of transmission and generation planning, wholesale energy market structure development, as well as system reliability and system resource adequacy evaluation and planning.
Qualifications
PREFERENCES:
Preference will be given to applicants with experience in regional transmission organizations and FERC matters.
KNOWLEDGE:
Experience with independent case handling responsibility.
Knowledge of state and federal utility laws, rules, and regulations, and court decisions.
Intellectual and emotional maturity.
Ability to successfully manage teams of experts drawn from a variety of professions.
Knowledge of electric industry operations issues.
Knowledge of accounting, engineering, and economics issues in utility regulation, and the ability to perform under stress and compressed deadlines.
Exemplary personal and professional integrity and business ethics.
Ability to function autonomously.
Strong, logical legal mind with the ability to apply abstract concepts of law to make timely, well-reasoned, and appropriate decisions to solve problems.
Ability to work efficiently under time pressures and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Adaptable to changing environments.
Sound judgment.
Strong leadership, managerial and interpersonal skills, including the ability to engender trust, respect, and confidence.
Strong oral and written communication skills.
Strong negotiating skills.
Knowledge of state and federal laws.
Knowledge of the interaction between state and federal laws and agencies
Litigation skill set.
Problem-solving skills.
Legal presentation skills.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
Juris Doctorate
Experience:
5+ years of relevant legal experience as a practicing attorney.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Requires membership in the State Bar as an Attorney qualified to practice law in this state.
Necessary Special Requirements
PHYSICAL WORKING CONDITIONS:
Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to perform the work.
Special physical demands are not required to perform the work.
NOTES:
FLSA: Exempt
Supplemental Information
023 - Public Service Commission
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The State of Wyoming is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively supports the ADA and reasonably accommodates qualified applicants with disabilities.
Class Specifications are subject to change, please refer to the A & I HRD Website to ensure that you have the most recent version.
Employer
State of Wyoming
Address
Human Resource Contact Information located in the
General Description Section
Statewide, Wyoming, 82002
Phone
307-777-7188
Website
http://agency.governmentjobs.com/wyoming/default.cfm
Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
Juris Doctorate
Experience:
5+ years of relevant legal experience as a practicing attorney.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Requires membership in the State Bar as an Attorney qualified to practice law in this state.
Necessary Special Requirements
PHYSICAL WORKING CONDITIONS:
Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to perform the work.
Special physical demands are not required to perform the work.
