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Deputy Director, International Climate Negotiations and Engagement

2 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Full time

Job summary

Tackling international climate change is a critical role for DESNZ.� The International Net Zero Directorate leads this work across Government, in close partnership with FCDO, Cabinet Office, , HM Treasury and Defra.

We�re looking for someone to join our leadership team with proven international negotiations experience who has demonstrated their ability to drive outcomes in a large and complex multilateral process.� You�ll need to be quickly able to gain the confidence of a wide and varied set of stakeholders and make critical decisions at pace.� You will have analytical and policy skills and the ability to operate effectively across government to deliver.

Providing excellent team management and leadership to a high-pressured, fantastic team of policy officials supporting capability and personal development.� As well as people leadership, you will champion diversity and inclusion while ensuring that we continue to deliver as a high performing team

Job description

You will work alongside the UK Lead Climate Negotiator at the heart of a critical multilateral process, leveraging relationships with senior counterparts across governments and beyond, so will need to have excellent interpersonal, influencing and communication skills to build and maintain strategic relationships.� You will be working in a very dynamic and fast paced environment and so must be comfortable dealing with change and new and novel issues, be able to show excellent judgement and the ability to provide robust advice and identify key issues quickly and confidently from complex, technical negotiations.� The successful candidate will be able to lead strategy development, lead through their own team and a network of wider teams across HM Government and demonstrate inspiring and effective leadership.

There will be some travel requirement averaged across the year

Key Responsibilities

Providing excellent team management leading the UK�s climate negotiations and engagement team to develop and deliver overall UK negotiations policy and strategy in the UNFCCC, G7 and G20; working across UK departments to ensure wider UK interests are met.Oversee the development of strategy for keeping degrees in reach through multilateral processes; including the development and delivery of an NDC lobbying campaign ahead of COP30Work alongside the UK Lead Climate Negotiator to represent the UK externally as lead climate negotiator in the G7, G20 and UNFCCC process; building relationships with international counterparts, institutions and civil society to maximise influence and enhance UK reputation.Advise and support DESNZ Ministers on approach to climate negotiations across all international fora.Role model cross-DESNZ working to contribute to overall International Net Zero strategy and ensure join up between teamsChampioning diversity and inclusion, supporting capability and personal development of all team members while ensuring a positive working environment in which wellbeing is prioritised in stressful environments.

Person specification

Required skills and experience�

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following essential criteria:

(1)Confident, empowering, inspiring and visible leader, with experience of building inclusive and inspiring high-performing teams with a strong focus on delivery.

(2)Direct experience of international negotiations in a multilateral forum such as the UN and securing challenging outcomes.

(3)A strong understanding of the key drivers to achieve International Net Zero and previous experience in international climate policy.

(4)A powerful communicator, who has experience operating across a complex international landscape with multiple stakeholders, influencing senior international counterparts in a highly political context, and securing the confidence of Ministers and Senior Civil Servants (or their equivalent) to achieve outcomes through strong relationships and delivering through others.

(5)Strong experience of people leadership, supporting inclusion, wellbeing, capability and personal development.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �76,000, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes �20,520 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.Automatic enrolment into the , with an average employer contribution of 27%.A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.