Executive Officer

**Overview of Responsibilities**:
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As **_Executive Officer_**, you will play a pivotal role in policy development and sponsorship of major programmes reporting into senior levels in government.

**What will you be responsible for**
- Developing cross-company initiatives and special projects that are critical to the business on behalf of the Executive team.
- Briefing the Executive Directors on key issues and emerging problems, anticipating areas of scrutiny, highlighting issues and potential solutions to enable effective outcomes.
- Acting as secretariat for an Executive or Board level sub-committee to help enable effective decisions and provide assurance that governance activities are executed at the executive level.
- Ensuring the delivery of equality, diversity and inclusion commitments
- Assisting the Directors in guiding major planning exercises, such as crisis management planning and incidents, resource planning, and business planning.
- Establishing and developing a wide-ranging network within the organisation to ensure an effective information flow to and from the Directorate.
- Establishing and developing a strategic network outside the Authority linking to relevant stakeholders (eg. government, research councils, other PSRE’s and ALB’s)
- Guiding on sponsorship of programmes within UKAEA or its subsidiaries. Developing governance arrangements to assure the CEO of the probity of the programme/subsidiary.

You should be able to deal with rapidly changing priorities.
- Salary
£46,293 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension- Programme
CENTRALISED- Department
Corporate Services- Discipline
Business Development- Site Location
UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire- Type of Employment
Full-time**Qualifications**:
**Essential skills, experience and competence required**
- Proficient in writing strategy, policy, management, and business documents
- Effective communication in diverse, multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural environments; adept at constructive challenges
- Strong networking abilities, skilled at nurturing stakeholder relationships for organizational gains
- Outstanding communication skills encompassing writing, speech, and social media, capable of engaging with senior personnel and negotiation
- Solid numeracy, scientific proficiency; skilled at researching and discerning crucial information for prompt decision-making; meticulous attention to detail
- Sound grasp of organizational mission, goals, and delivery aspects

**Additional Information**: