Net Zero Graduate Scheme

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Low Carbon Contracts Company Full time

**Description**:
**Contract type**: 2 year Fixed Term Contract

**Hours**:37.5 hours per week

**Salary**: £30,000

**Location**: Canary Wharf

**WFH policy**: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week

**Visa sponsorships**: LCCC does
_not_ sponsor visas currently so you will need to hold a valid UK passport or a valid visa to work in the UK.

**Role Summary**:
There are four positions where you will get to experience the key areas of our development and delivery strategy on powering Net Zero for the UK.

You’ll be rotating through three of our departments; Scheme Delivery, Strategy & Development, Operations.

**Scheme Delivery**:
Scheme Delivery is responsible for managing a portfolio of low carbon energy contracts totalling 29 Gigawatts in nameplate capacity - this is a huge number and represents a large share of the UK’s entire low carbon electrical capacity.

The team ensures the portfolio delivers on its obligations to meet Government’s objectives to decarbonise the electricity system by ensuring the projects progress through their development lifecycle, from design and funding, through their construction phase, and onto commissioning and long-term operations.

**Development and Strategy**:
The public face of the company, Scheme Development sits between the Government and industry, engaging on both to ensure that the energy policy and regulations underpinning how our schemes evolve in line with our Guiding Principle of maintaining investor confidence whilst delivering value for money for the public.

The Strategy Team is responsible for setting the overall direction of the business and measuring progress against our objectives, they are a key central function of LCCC.

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**Operations**:
Our Operations team is central to how our schemes are managed with links to all parts of LCCC. They are focused on the advancement of existing and development of new schemes. Change is not only a big part of the team but at the core of how they work and they value challenge and questioning why.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Below are some of the responsibilities and activities you’ll be performing on a day-to-day basis during your placements in each of our teams

**Scheme Development**:

- Working with Managers and Leads on Policy and Commercial Developments;
- Answering queries
- Writing briefing documents
- Reading and reviewing industry documents
- Providing an overview to the business on how it impacts LCCC
- Supporting on scheme issues and identifying solutions for implementation

**Scheme Delivery**:

- Assisting Contract Managers and/Lead Contract Managers with;
- Contract management tasks
- Allocation Round 4 Milestone Delivery Date Evaluation
- Allocation Round 5 Initial Conditions Precedent Evaluation
- Counterparty and generator engagement
- Site engagement visits
- Preparing presentation packs
- Relationship management

**Strategy**:

- Supporting with the strategy annual review;
- Ensuring company KPI documentation is up-to-date
- Seeking and analysing feedback on company Scorecard improvement
- Helping to facilitate workshops for all staff members to identify areas for improvement
- Translating workshop output themes into actionable initiatives and projects

**Operations**:

- Change Management activity including project management and business requirements
- Operational delivery and continuous improvement of existing schemes
- Development and maintenance of change proposals; business processes and system requirements
- Assist with the analysis of scheme data identify trends, and highlighting focus areas for improvement
- Problem solving operational issues that present themselves through the placement and lead the change, presentation of the impact and solutions

**General**:

- Undertake supported engagement with internal and external stakeholders to drive operational improvement/excellence
- There will be the opportunity to work closely with our in-house Legal Team on activities such as; undertaking research, redacting/preparing documents to be sent out, and reviewing documents that require further translation for the receiver.
- This is not an exhaustive list of duties and LCCC reserves the right to make reasonable changes to the scheme structure and teams associated with the scheme in line with business needs.

**Skills Knowledge and Expertise**:
**Essential**:

- Interest and passion for low carbon energy initiatives and developments
- STEM Subject
- Energy
- Environment
- Policy/Politics
- Economics/Business
- Geography
- Accounting and Finance
- Law
- History
- Interest and passion for low carbon energy initiatives and developments
- Aptitude for problem solving to develop/improve processes
- Strong communication skills

**Desirable Skills**:

- Analytical thinking (both qualitative and quantitative)
- An interest in the coordination or management of projects in either a business or academic setting
- Interest and/or experience in contract management
- Experience/exposure of



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