Chief Strategy Officer

Summary

This position is located with Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), in the Strategic Planning and Performance office (MP) of the Customer Services (M) organization. A successful candidate in the Chief Strategy Officer position will serve as BPA’s principal leader for developing organizational strategy and monitoring performance.

Duties

• As the Chief Strategy Officer, you will: Drive Enterprise-Wide Strategy and Vision
• Serve as the principal leader for organizational strategy. You will develop, implement, and champion an overarching business vision across all business lines, ensuring our long-range strategic goals are integrated, actionable, and successfully executed. Champion Large-Scale Organizational Change
• Act as a key agent of change. You will design and execute major organizational change initiatives that modernize business operations, resolve complex program challenges, and continuously steer the agency toward operational excellence. Advise and Influence Executive Leadership
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives and a core member of the Executive Team.
• Your insights, policy recommendations, and strategic choices will directly shape high-level business decisions, fiscal strategies, and long-term organizational planning.
• Build and Leverage High-Level Partnerships
• Represent the agency on the national and international stage.
• You will establish and maintain critical collaborative relationships with key stakeholders-including major utility executives, federal and state agencies, tribal nations, and local elected officials across the Western United States and Canada.
• Lead, Mentor, and Empower a High-Performing Team
• Provide executive leadership to a dedicated, highly specialized team of approximately 17 professional and managerial staff.
• You will foster an inclusive, equitable, and supportive culture, championing professional development, mentoring future leaders, and managing a robust budget.
• Align Regional Strategy with National Energy Goals
• Ensure our agency's strategic direction is seamlessly aligned with the vision of the Agency Administrator, the Secretary of Energy, and broader regional and national clean energy goals.
• You will translate shifting national energy priorities into local strategic initiatives.
• Turn Industry Trends into Strategic Advantages
• Keep your finger on the pulse of the energy sector.
• You will analyze legislative developments, economic shifts, and emerging technology trends, translating these complex external forces into forward-looking business strategies and proactive policy proposals.
• Establish Modern Business Intelligence and Performance Metrics
• Introduce state-of-the-art tools and industry benchmarks to measure organizational success. By developing and deploying automated tracking systems and key performance indicators, you will provide the executive team with real-time, data-driven insights to monitor progress and celebrate achievements.

Requirements

• This is a temporary promotion, not to exceed one (1) year, may be extended up to five (5) years total; may be made permanent without further competition.
• Upon termination of the promotion, you will be returned to your original position of record, or to a different position of equivalent grade and pay.
• Temporary promotions may be terminated at any time based on the needs of management.
• If you are currently employed at a grade equivalent to, or higher than the advertised position, the action will be considered a detail for processing purposes, & no salary increase will be associated with accepting the position.
• Details are processed in 120-day increments & may be extended up to two (2) years total; additional extensions may be approved at the discretion of the Human Resources Service Center Director.
• Upon termination of the detail, you will be returned to your original position of record.
• Details may be terminated at any time based on needs of management.
• In accordance with Executive Order 14170, applicants are encouraged to respond to four short, free-response, essay questions in the questionnaire.
• Answer to these questions is not scored or rated.
• Your answers will be reviewed by the hiring manager and agency leadership if you are referred for selection consideration.
• When you apply you will be asked a series of questions to determine your eligibility for employment and your qualification for this position specifically.
• You must answer all of these questions completely and truthfully.
• Key Requirements: You must be a United States Citizen.
• This employer participates in the e-Verify program.
• Males must abide by Selective Service registration requirements.
• You will be required to report in person to the official duty location.
• Conditions of Employment: Selectee will be required to complete the Office of Government Ethics Standard of Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OFGE450e) within 30 days of employment and annually.
• First time supervisors will be required to serve a 1 year probationary period.
• This position has been designated as requiring a PUBLIC TRUST background.
• A preliminary background check must be completed before a new employee can begin work.
• Current Federal employees or other individuals with an existing completed background investigation may not be required to undergo another background check.

Education

There are no specific education requirements or substitution of education for experience for this position.

Required Documents

• To apply for this position, you MUST provide a complete application package which includes:
• Your two (2) page
• RESUME showing all relevant work experience (paid and unpaid) including: duties performed; full name and address of each employer; start and end dates (month/day/year); work schedule (part-time, full-time, number of hours if intermittent); salary; and any completed education
• And training (program title, subject area, number of hours completed, and completion date).
• Information on how to create a federal resume https://help.usajobs.gov/how-to/account/documents/resume Cover
• Letter, optional, expressing additional information not covered in your resume.
• Transcripts, if specific educational requirements are indicated in this job announcement.
• Unofficial transcripts or any report listing institution, course title, credits earned (semester or quarter hour) and final grade is acceptable.
• It is your responsibility to provide adequate proof that you meet the educational requirements.
• Submit one or more of the following to support your eligibility(s) to apply to this job announcement: SF-50, "Notification of Personnel
• Action" (current/former federal employees): Most recent Promotion, Within Rate
• Increase (WRI/WGI), or Appointment/Conversion SF-50 or Notification of Personnel
• Action showing you are/were in the competitive service and the highest grade or promotion potential held. Career Transition Assistance Program/Interagency Career Transition Assistance
• Program documentation, if applicable (e.g., Certification of Expected Separation, Reduction-In-Force Separation Notice, or Notice of Proposed
• Removal; SF-50 that documents the
• RIF separation action; and most recent performance appraisal.)
• For more information see the
• OPM Guide to Career
• Transition. Failure to submit any of the above mentioned required documents may result in loss of consideration due to an incomplete application package. It is your responsibility to ensure all required documents have been submitted. If selected for the position you
• MUST submit: A copy of your most recent performance appraisal/evaluation and incentive awards, you received in the last 5 years. The assigned
• HR Specialist will verify review this documentation to ensure selectee has at least a satisfactory performance rating before setting the entrance on duty date. If you do not have your most recent performance appraisal/evaluation, you will be asked to submit a statement as to why it is not available.