Policy Officer: Home Energy Retrofit

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

- 267428**Salary**:

- £31,120 - £37,260- National: £31,120 - £33,085 London: £34,410 - £37,260**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- BEIS - Net Zero Buildings and Industry - Net Zero Buildings Domestic**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, SalfordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**Our Mission**

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission

We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

**Our Inclusive Environment**

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

**Job description**:
**The role and our team**

This policy officer role will sit in the Finance, Advice, and Standards team in the Net Zero Domestic Buildings Directorates which owns the policy levers to improve the take up of home energy retrofit. Our work ranges from green finance to innovation and the provision consumer information and guidance, through to setting standards and regulations.
- Homes account for 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions (22% if electricity generation is included). Decarbonising the housing stock will play a central part in delivering Net Zero.
- We are a friendly, diverse and inclusive team of energetic and creative individuals and welcome those who can bring their talents and fresh perspectives to the team. You will work towards building something better and love the friendly and supportive work environment.

The role is focussed on the development regulations and other market enabling measures to support home energy retrofit - including the development of a new multi-tiered consumer advice and information service, as well as interventions to facilitate low-cost finance from retail lenders to drive investment in energy efficiency measures.**Person specification**:
**Key responsibilities**

Responsibilities may include elements of the following (though objectives will flex according to the specific priorities of the team at the time);
- Leading tasks and work packages within the policy programme
- Drafting advice, responses to correspondences, media enquiries and parliamentary questions
- Supporting the procurement of products, services and research
- Building a robust evidence base and analyse evidence to develop policy options
- Supporting the development of spending review and budget bids
- Developing a strong understanding of energy retrofit, as well as how it fits with wider net zero policy
- Working collaboratively with other professions, departments and external stakeholders, building strong relationships to ensure delivery of the team’s goals
- Playing a corporate role within the team and the wider directorate

We operate a flexible resourcing model across the team and wider directorate. This means that individual roles and responsibilities can be varied over time if priorities change.
- **Skill and experience**
We would love to hear from you if you:

- Enjoy working with a variety of stakeholders - some of whom may have different objectives - in a collaborative way, communicating in writing and orally, delivering difficult or challenging messages with clarity and persuasiveness;
- Think strategically - understanding how complex issues interact, identifying the critical factors, spotting issues, turning solutions around quickly and building consensus up around them;
- Have an appetite for driving change and shifting perceptions, being able to envision new possibilities and ways of doing things and communicate them clearly and with enthusiasm;
- Demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills, have the analytical ability to get to the heart of a policy or operational problem and understand it in detail and the perseverance to dev