Cyber Regulation Policy Lead

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 389173

**Salary**:

- £47,895 - £62,699
- London £50,748 - £62,699 / National £47,895 - £58,519. Please ensure that you read the Pay and Reward information for civil service and internal colleagues before applying.
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Grade 7
- Level 2b

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- Cyber Regulation Directorate - Cyber Regulation (Competent Authority) Team

**Type of role**:

- Digital
Information Technology
Policy
Security

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part year

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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Location
- Cardiff, Glasgow, London

About the job

**Job summary**:
As Great Britain's regulator for the energy industry, Ofgem exists to ensure a safe, secure and sustainable energy supply to British households and businesses.

We are seeking a Cyber Regulation Lead with experience in cyber security and the energy sector to play a pivotal role in protecting energy consumers. You will operate within the Cyber Directorate and profession.

These roles inhabit the same core responsibilities, but there are variations within the wider responsibilities attached to the roles.

**Core Responsibilities**:

- Leading activities across the Cyber Regulation Team.
- Working collaboratively with teams across the organisation to ensure the delivery of our responsibilities align with the Regulator’s Code.
- Proven record of leadership skills and ensure benefits for energy consumers' needs.

Within a Cyber Policy Role, you’ll develop Ofgem’s cyber security policies in collaboration with The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, lead policy implementation, be at the forefront of scanning for future challenges and support sector research and innovation.

Ofgem has a culture of inclusion that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our colleagues. As an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.

**Job description**:
We are excited to bring someone into our team who can help us shape the security and resilience of Great Britain’s energy sector. The energy sector is rapidly transforming to meet our country’s Clean Power and Net Zero ambitions and cyber security is a critical enabler. This is a great time to join a team making a positive impact in the sector.

Joining as a member of the team with policy experience, you will need to quickly understand the government’s direction through working closely with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, learn Ofgem’s regulatory remit, understand and analyse evidence from different sources, and develop innovative regulatory solutions to difficult challenges to support the energy sector.

This role will be part of the Cyber and AI Directorate at Ofgem. This team has an important role in protecting the security of supply for energy consumers in Great Britain. You will be part of the Cyber Profession, or the Policy Profession, depending on your background. The Professions model enables us to give staff a wide range of future job opportunities within Ofgem by allowing them to move to different teams over their career.

Your initial deployment will be to the Cyber Policy team. We shape the regulatory approach relating to cyber and security resilience that the energy sector takes, in close partnership with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and others.

Ofgem works on behalf of energy consumers to ensure that every household and business in the UK can rely on a safe, affordable, and environmentally sustainable energy supply. We are playing a vital part in accelerating the transition to Net Zero and a carbon neutral energy system - a goal that everyone wants to achieve. Whatever your role, you’ll be playing your part in creating new energy solutions that are great for customers, and great for the environment.

Ofgem has a culture of inclusion that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our colleagues. It fuels our innovation and helps ensure we can best represent the consumers and the communities we serve. Everyone is welcome - as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.

**Person specification**:

- Lead multiple regulatory policy projects to deliver improvements in the energy sector’s cyber resilience. This could include activities such as:

- Working across policy teams internally, with government partners, NESO and industry to ensure a cyber-secure net zero transition,
- Developing Ofgem cyber security policy, strategy and thinking, relating to increasingly important sub-sectors such as offshore hybrid assets, hydrogen, heat networks, etc.
- Working with government partners to ensure that the Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations are effectively impl