Senior Policy Lead
4 weeks ago
About the Role
As a Senior Policy Lead at Ofgem, you will play a crucial role in shaping the energy policy that delivers a greener, fairer energy system for the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Low Carbon Regulated Asset Base (RAB) team and be at the forefront of the drive to deliver Net Zero.
About Ofgem
Ofgem is the industry regulator that ensures prices are fair, builds resilience across the energy sector, facilitates infrastructure investment, and develops and delivers effective market reforms and governance arrangements. We work for consumers and with many industry partners, and our policy work is vital to protecting consumers, enabling businesses, and influencing the entire energy industry.
About the Team
You will be part of our Infrastructure group, where our work is highly varied and challenging. We advise the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and His Majesty's Treasury (HMT) on regulatory and strategic issues, develop new approaches to financing large scale energy investment, regulate new energy technologies and services, and develop policy crucial for meeting our decarbonisation goals.
About the Job
As a Senior Policy Lead, you will lead policy projects and workstreams, using your analytical and communication skills to solve complex problems and deliver significant pieces of work. You will manage the input of relevant analytical, technical, and legal experts to present policy recommendations that highlight the risks, trade-offs, and wider commercial and economic considerations to decision makers.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively leads a policy area and provides the end-to-end knowledge and strategic oversight to support effective decision making and continuous improvement.
- Works flexibly across Ofgem to ensure delivery of organisation priorities in line with business planning, guiding, supporting, and collaborating with colleagues to respond effectively to change.
- Leads key projects, including responsibility for internal and external stakeholder engagement, prioritising, planning and delivering work.
- Ensures decision makers consider relevant legislation and regulation and any specific case issues and escalates critical issues as needed to ensure delivery for consumers.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in a policy development role, showing a history of managing the input of relevant analytical, technical, and legal experts to present policy recommendations that highlight the risks, trade-offs, and wider commercial and economic considerations to decision makers.
- Able to provide evidence in particular capability in the fields of regulation, economics, finance, legal, or engineering.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills that effectively communicate complex issues to non-expert audiences, distilling complex subject matter into relevant messages for internal/external stakeholders at a range of levels.
- Managing delivery: set clear goals and priorities, supports others to solve problems, overcome challenges, seeking feedback and means of continuous improvement.
- Clearly identifies and communicates the relevance, interdependencies and strategic fit of their work to organisational priorities both internally and externally.
What We Offer
Alongside a salary of £45,614, Ofgem contributes £13,214 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package, including 30 days annual leave after 2 years, excellent training and development opportunities, and hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but is in review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies.
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