Executive Assistant II

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Executive Assistant II Jobs in Wake County, NC at North Carolina – North Carolina Government

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Salary Grade: NC13

Recruitment Range: $46,817 – $72,000

The North Carolina Utilities Commission is an agency of the State of North Carolina created by the General Assembly to regulate the rates and service of all investor-owned public utilities providing service to customers in North Carolina. The Commission regulates electric, natural gas, water and wastewater, household goods transportation service providers, ferries and other related public utilities. The Commission is also responsible for administering programs in North Carolina to ensure the safety of natural gas pipelines.

The Commission employs approximately 70 employees and is comprised of seven full-time Commissioners, who serve six-year terms.  Commissioners are appointed by the Governor and are subject to confirmation by majority vote of both chambers of the General Assembly.  The Governor designates a Commissioner to serve as Chairman of the Commission for a four-year term. The Chairman serves as the chief executive and chief administrative officer of the Commission. The members of the Commission are subject to the North Carolina Code of Judicial Conduct.  The Commission also employs a staff of legal, technical, and administrative professionals.

The principal purpose of the Commission is to regulate investor-owned public utilities through  administration and enforcement of the North Carolina Public Utilities Act. The Commission is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations and to fix utility rates pursuant to the Act.  In carrying out its purpose, the Commission is required by law to perform its duties and responsibilities in securing to the people of the State an efficient and economic system of public utilities. For the purpose of conducting hearings, making decisions and issuing orders, and informal investigations where a record is made of testimony under oath, the Commission is deemed to exercise functions judicial in nature and has all the powers and jurisdiction of a court of general jurisdiction as to all subjects over which it has jurisdiction by law.  The Commission also exercises quasi-legislative functions, such as in conducting investigations into matters related to the rates and service of public utilities.

The Commission routinely hears cases involving matters of significant policy and/or substantial importance.  When acting as a court of record, the Commission applies the rules of evidence applicable in civil actions in the superior court, insofar as practicable. Decisions of the Commission must be supported by competent, material and substantial evidence upon consideration of the whole record. Final orders or decisions entered by the Commission in general rate cases may be appealed directly to the North Carolina Supreme Court. Appeals of all other decisions of the Commission must first proceed to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

The Commission presently regulates more than three thousand entities providing service in North Carolina. These entities have a combined jurisdictional revenue of approximately $12 billion dollars per year. Thousands of formal proceedings are instituted before the Commission in any given year, and the Commission typically has more than 600 open dockets at any given time.

The major purpose of this position is to serve as Confidential Executive Assistant for the Chairman, who is both the chief administrative officer and the chief executive officer of …

Title: Executive Assistant II

Company: North Carolina – North Carolina Government

Location: Wake County, NC

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