Energy Affordability Director
3 weeks ago
The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero is seeking a highly skilled and experienced individual to lead the Energy Affordability Directorate. As Director, you will be responsible for developing a refreshed approach to ensuring the market works for businesses and consumers.
You will take overall responsibility for policy on retail markets, consumer affordability, and policy costs on bills, acting as the departmental lead for our relationship with Ofgem. This will include line management of 3 SCS1s.
Your Responsibilities- Provide inclusive and inspiring leadership to a Directorate of around c. 130 staff split across 4 Deputy Director led teams with a mix of policy, delivery, and analysis expertise.
- Ensure effective delivery of the energy support schemes as SRO, including the Energy Price Guarantee, Alternative Fuel Payment, Energy Bills Relief Scheme, and Energy Bill Discount Scheme.
- Lead the Department's work on retail energy market policy, including working with Ofgem on live issues relating to retail markets and developing and delivering policy on future-facing issues and market reform.
- Lead the Department's sponsor relationship with Ofgem.
- Oversee all work on consumer affordability strategy, including on the structure of household and business bills, policy costs, and levies.
We are looking for a candidate with the following skills and experience:
- Building and inspiring high-performing teams with a strong focus on delivery through periods of change and ambiguity.
- The ability to work effectively with external partners such as Ofgem, and across professional boundaries, building strong relationships and providing appropriate challenge.
- Comfortable working in a programme management environment, managing financial risk and scrutiny.
- The ability to link strategic insights and evidence to decisions on funding and regulation.
- Commitment to driving forward transformation and change in the department, including through Places for Growth and the department's values.
The Department for Energy Security & 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 Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme, 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 and professional development opportunities.
- Access to a range of retail, travel, and lifestyle employee discounts.
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. Senior Civil Servant (SCS) staff are expected to aim for closer to 60% of the time at an office or non-home-based location over the accounting period.
Further InformationWe are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.
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