Waste to Value

DIT is the international economic department responsible for bringing together policy, promotion and financial expertise to break down barriers to trade and investment and help businesses succeed.

The department is currently working on four priority outcomes:

- Securing world class Free Trade Agreements
- Championing the rules based international trading system
- Supporting UK businesses to take full advantage of trade opportunities to facilitate UK exports
- Delivering economic growth to all nations of the UK by attracting and retaining inward investment

This is an important time to join the Department, as it is only several months into delivering a new export strategy and about to undergo an investment transformation programme.

The role sits within the English Regions Directorate, which is the face of DIT across England and has a central part to play in several key initiatives, including the Levelling Up agenda.
Job description

We are a talented and diverse regional team working with a range of partners across the world (internal and external) and industry bodies encouraging businesses to take advantage of the investment potential. We work across a number of different priority sectors, however this is a business facing role and is responsible for attracting inward investment to the Renewable Energy sector, by identifying, pursuing, and landing opportunities across the value chain from research and development through to manufacturing and commercialisation, working with both product developers and the wider services and supply chain for the waste to value and heat networks sector, and enabling DIT’s UK and global network. Objectives will need to be set and achieved within the UK and global operating context for renewable energy.

**Key Accountabilities**

The NPH Investment Hub team works closely with overseas businesses, matching them to opportunities and supporting and advising them on setting up or expanding their business in the North. This role will require you to work with both new and existing investors by:

- Be expert and take personal leadership of the Renewable Energy portfolio: set and implement an operational strategy and Northern sector plan to achieve agreed objectives for inward investment in the sector and in priority markets, working with DIT’s UK and global network and with local partner organisations
- International deal-making: building client and sector relationships at a senior level, representing the Northern Renewable Energy brand in the UK and overseas to attract investors to the North
- Engagement with internal and external institutions: working with a range of Public and Private Partner organisations including - the 11 northern Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), Universities, Industry bodies, DIT Overseas and UK Sector Teams to showcase the core capabilities of NPH and connecting investors with industry contacts
- NPH sector propositions: manage and deliver with the team a portfolio of offers relevant to showcase NPH inward investment opportunities in waste to value and heat networks to communicate international value propositions helping to match investors and managing top projects/opportunities. This will also involve working with LEPs, local institutions and thought leaders
- UK and overseas events: working with LEPs and Northern Institutions to promote the NPH ‘offer’ at UK and overseas events to showcase the collective strengths and opportunities in the North to international investors
- Represent DIT NPH team: in engagements with businesses, with sector stakeholders across government and the private sector, and in support of Ministers, being a credible voice for HMG and for the sector. Helping to drive a culture of entrepreneurship, innovation, and continuous improvement across the DIT’s NPH Team, wider Regional, UK and overseas Teams

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DIT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average. If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting.

DIT will cover travel costs/expenses to any office which is not your usual office location in line with departmental expenses policy. DIT will not cover commuting costs to your agreed office location.

**Responsibilities**:
**Essential Criteria**

You’ll have demonstrable skills and experience of:

- Experience in roles of increasing responsibility
- Proven renewable energy sector knowledge and networks
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to grow or build a broad network across the NPH Region as well as connections to clusters and centres of excellence across the regions
- Experience at building relationships at the highest level will be needed as will expertise in balancing the complex asks of n