Policy & Public Affairs Officer - London, United Kingdom - National Grid

National Grid

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Policy & Public Affairs Officer:

Location: London, GB, WC2N 5EH
Division: Public Affairs & Policy UK
Job Type:
Requisition Number: Department:
Job Function: Corporate Affairs and Communications
About the Role:

In this highly visible and exciting Policy and Public Affairs Officer role, you'll be regularly engaging with colleagues and external stakeholders to shape public policy, therefore helping drive the delivery of the UK's energy transition to Net Zero.

You'll have responsibility for building National Grid's reputation and influencing high profile key stakeholders, including Parliamentarians, Government, lobbying groups, Think Tanks, Trade Associations, Academics and EU stakeholders.

You can have a major part to play in our world-leading feat of transforming the UK's energy system to Net Zero - to deliver a clean, affordable and secure flow of energy, helping to combat Climate Change.

Passionate about our planet? Come and join us

Key Accountabilities:

You'll be leading responses to Government and wider consultations impacting National Grid, and provide input for executive briefings, board papers, select committee inquiries and other external engagements.

Your Policy experience will enable you to support horizon scanning and pro-actively monitor and analyse policy and political developments in the UK - providing insight and intelligence to help shape business decisions.

By maintaining your network of external contacts and pro-actively engaging with relevant think tanks, trade associations, NGOs, academics and other policy-based groups, you'll support the delivery of corporate strategic campaigns - advising on policy, audience-specific message development and policy stakeholder mapping and engagement.

Your Stakeholder Management skills will enable you to collaborate across the business, to develop policy positions and shape policy messages.

Internally, you'll support policy governance, including drafting papers for discussion, and ensuring policy messages are kept up to date and are available to colleagues across the business.

About You:

You've got demonstrable knowledge & experience in Policy and Public Affairs, including developing policy messages, political positioning and integrated campaigning, and can communicate policy messages clearly and concisely.

You'll have a good understanding of the parliamentary and political landscape, and ideally key stakeholders which relate to and impact the utilities sector (governmental, regulatory, NGOs, industry bodies).

If you've worked in a large or matrix style organisation, this would be well regarded, where you have proven ability to network internally and externally and to develop successful, long-lasting business relationships and partnerships.

You have a background in delivering results, in a timely and challenging environment, able to deal with rapid change, complexity and ambiguity.

What we can Offer You:

Salary up to £48,000 - dependent on experience.

Plus:

Annual Performance Bonus (up to 10%)
28 days annual leave, plus 8 statutory days (plus can buy up to 5 more)
Generous pension scheme we doublematch your contribution to a maximum of 12%. Overall 18%. (For every £1 you put in, we put in £2).
Life Assurance at 10x your base salary.
Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave relevant to your role.
Access to benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
Family care benefits including a backup care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
Access to apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.

This role offers flexible hybrid working, working between both our offices at The Strand, London (2-3 days pw) and the rest from home.

We can also offer some flexibility in hours, if required - our standard working week is 37 hours.

About Us:

National Grid plc is a multinational electricity and gas utility company headquartered in London.

It has a market capitalisation of ~£36 billion and is one of the top 25 FTSE companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

National Grid lies at the heart of a transforming energy system, spanning the UK and the US. Our businesses supply gas and electricity, safely, reliably and efficiently to millions of customers and communities.

But we also drive change through engineering innovation and by incubating new ideas with the power to revolutionise our industry.

At National Grid, we share the belief that we need to stand for something beyond profit. We have a responsibility to demonstrate our contribution to society more broadly, whether that's helping the young people of today to become the energy problem-solvers of tomorr