Director / Senior Director Power Markets

Director / Senior Director, Power Markets

Location: U.S. Reston (Preferred) / Remote

The Role

ICF is seeking a senior power markets executive to help strengthen our market presence and expand our position in emerging digital infrastructure markets. This role is designed for a highly respected industry professional who combines deep power market expertise, strong client relationships, and a demonstrated ability to translate market insights into business opportunities and strategic growth.

The position is intentionally focused on two critical priorities in the near term while offering the opportunity to assume broader strategic, organizational, and business responsibilities over time as the business evolves and the individual demonstrates impact.

Initial Priorities

Strengthening ICF’s Senior Market Presence and Expertise

Bring recognized power market expertise and a strong external presence to the business. Serve as a trusted senior advisor to clients, providing perspectives on evolving market dynamics, resource adequacy, generation investment, transmission, load growth, market design, and other emerging issues. Expand senior-level relationships, elevate ICF’s visibility in the marketplace, and translate market credibility into meaningful business development opportunities.

Build and Grow the Digital Infrastructure Business

Help establish and execute a strategy for ICF’s emerging digital infrastructure client segment. Define where ICF can differentiate with data centers, hyperscalers, digital infrastructure developers, and investors; identify priority clients and offerings; and connect capabilities across power markets, transmission and interconnection, natural gas, engineering, and project development. Develop relationships, market presence, and a pipeline of opportunities that support the creation of a scalable growth platform.

Key Responsibilities

Market Leadership and Client Impact

• Serve as a recognized senior expert and market voice for ICF on power markets, bringing informed perspectives on market fundamentals, resource adequacy, generation investment, transmission, load growth, market design, and other emerging issues.
• Engage directly with senior executives and decisionmakers, bringing insights that help clients make consequential investment, development, planning, and strategic decisions.
• Translate market expertise into commercially relevant perspectives, thought leadership, and client conversations.
• Be a visible external representative of the business through conferences, executive briefings, publications, and direct client engagement.
• Help ensure that ICF continues to be known not simply for strong modeling, but also for senior experts capable of interpreting what the analysis means, helping clients act on it, and serving as true trusted partners.

Digital Infrastructure Growth

• Develop and own a clear vision and growth strategy for ICF’s emerging digital infrastructure business, recognizing that this is an early-stage client segment requiring focused market development and incremental execution.
• Define priority client types, needs, and differentiated offerings across data center developers, hyperscalers, infrastructure investors, and other digital infrastructure participants.
• Translate ICF’s capabilities into integrated solutions addressing issues such as power availability, market and price outlooks, interconnection, natural gas and generation strategy, project development, and investment decisions.
• Build senior relationships with priority market participants and develop a focused pipeline of engagements.
• Establish the organizational model and cross-ICF collaboration required to serve these clients effectively, rather than creating a stand-alone capability disconnected from the rest of the business.
• Move deliberately from strategy to execution, testing propositions with clients, learning from early engagements, and progressively scaling the highest-value offerings.

Future Scope and Growth Opportunity

As the business evolves, this role is expected to take on broader responsibilities across selected aspects of business strategy, growth, talent development, organizational leadership, thought leadership, innovation, and market positioning. Over time, the position may expand to include responsibility for larger portions of the Power Markets business and could evolve into a broader business leadership role.

Potential future responsibilities may include:

• Helping shape and execute the overall strategy and growth agenda for the Power Markets business.
• Identifying priority markets, client segments, offerings, investments, and capability-development opportunities.
• Leading broader go-to-market, account-development, and business-development initiatives across the practice.
• Strengthening collaboration across ICF to bring integrated solutions that combine power markets with transmission, natural gas, engineering, environmental, implementation, and related capabilities.
• Helping evolve organizational structures, operating models, and leadership approaches to support growth and delivery excellence.
• Building leadership bench strength, developing future leaders, and supporting succession planning.
• Recruiting and integrating senior talent and specialized expertise aligned with strategic priorities.
• Establishing priorities for thought leadership, market insights, publications, and external market engagement.
• Advancing the use of technology, automation, data, and AI to enhance analytical capabilities, delivery models, and client solutions.
• Contributing to the long-term positioning, differentiation, and market reputation of the Power Markets business.

What Success Looks Like

Success during the first phase of this role will be defined primarily by two outcomes:

• Strengthened senior market presence: ICF has added a highly regarded power market expert who elevates client dialogue, expands strategic relationships, enhances market visibility, and converts expertise into business opportunities.
• Establishment of a credible digital infrastructure growth platform: ICF has established a clear strategy, differentiated offerings, priority-client agenda, and growing pipeline of opportunities that position digital infrastructure as an increasingly important area of growth.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations research, economics, or a related field.
• 15+ years of experience in energy market forecasting and analysis.
• Experience with electricity market and transmission reliability analysis tools (e.g., AURORA, PROMOD, PSLF, PSS®E).
• Experience in consulting, client management, business development, thought leadership, and overseeing technical staff for task delivery.

Working at ICF

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future.

We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy.

We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Work Authorization and Sponsorship

All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for new H-1B visa sponsorship by ICF. Candidates who currently hold valid work authorization may be considered for a change of employer petition, subject to company policy and applicable immigration requirements.

Reasonable Accommodations

Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.  

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Bot and Third-Party Applications

Please note that this application must be submitted directly by the applicant for consideration. Failure to do so may result in the application being excluded for consideration.  Applicants needing an accommodation for disability or religious purposes in connection with the application process should contact [email protected] for assistance.

Candidate AI Usage Policy

At ICF, we are committed to ensuring a fair interview process for all candidates based on their own skills and knowledge. As part of this commitment, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate or assist with responses during interviews (whether in-person or virtual) is not permitted. This policy is in place to maintain the integrity and authenticity of the interview process.  

However, we understand that some candidates may require accommodation that involves the use of AI. If such an accommodation is needed, candidates are instructed to contact us in advance at [email protected]. We are dedicated to providing the necessary support to ensure that all candidates have an equal opportunity to succeed.  

Pay Range

There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$174,701.00 - $296,992.00Nationwide Remote Office (US99)