Senior Policy Lead - London, United Kingdom - OFGEM

OFGEM

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3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £45,614 - £62,699

London £48,331£62,699 National £45,614£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 average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:

Grade 7

Level 2b
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
OFGEM
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Type of role:
Policy
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime
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Job summary:

Shape the policy that delivers a greener, fairer energy system for the UK. Join Ofgem's Infrastructure group and be at the forefront of the drive to deliver Net Zero

Ofgem as the industry regulator exists to ensure prices are fair, build resilience across the energy sector, facilitate infrastructure investment, and develop and deliver effective market reforms and governance arrangements.

We work for consumers and with many industry partners. Energy fuels our society and our economy. That's why our policy work is so important, and so rewarding. It protects consumers. It enables businesses. It influences the entire energy industry.

And it helps to bring about the seismic societal and infrastructure changes that will be the foundations for a Net Zero future.

Ofgem operates a Flexible Resourcing model, initially these roles will sit within Ofgem's Markets directorate and initial deployments could be within Affordability, Future Domestic Retail Policy, Standing Charges or Financial, Resilience and Controls teams.

In these roles you will proactively lead a policy area to provide end-to-end knowledge and strategic oversight to support effective decision making and continuous improvement.

You will lead continuous development on your domain knowledge and work flexibly across Ofgem to ensure the delivery of organisational priorities.

You will effectively communicate benefits, challenges, and trade-offs from policy proposals to Ofgem colleagues and sectoral stakeholders. Some (but not all) posts at this level act as Professional Development Leads, coaching and developing colleagues.

To join us, need 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.

You will also be able to manage delivery, setting clear priorities, supporting others to solve problems and to seek continuous improvement.

You will be able to clearly demonstrate the relevance of your work internally and externally. As well as being able to create open and inclusive engagement.

As well as the ability to contribute to and use quantitative, commercial and qualitative evidence and analysis to support policy development and decision-making.

Job description:

We operate a Flexible Resourcing model where you will have the opportunity to work flexibly across Ofgem supporting on a range of projects or may have a longer deployment within a team where you have in-demand specialist skills, knowledge, and expertise.

We will support you to learn and develop the Policy & Strategy skills and knowledge you need to build your career.

Initially these roles will sit within Ofgem's Markets directorate and initial deployments could be within the following areas:

Future Retail Markets Portfolio:

sits within the Markets Directorate and is made up of four policy teams: Domestic, Non-Domestic, Consumer Vulnerability and Debt, and Affordability policy teams.

We also have an experienced and agile Analysis team which supports the policy teams across the portfolio and wider where required.

As a portfolio we ensure that consumers are protected and empowered through policy development, working to encourage new business models and propositions, and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to gather insights into industry behaviour and consumers' needs.

It is critical that suppliers provide all consumers with good service, that meets their specific needs.

Standing Charges:

Our recent call for input on Standing Charges generated over 30,000 responses from individual consumers, charities, consumer groups, and energy suppliers and networks.

Using these contributions we are now charting a path forward, linking closely with other key Ofgem work on Affordability and Debt, and Future Price Protection, to determine whether changes need to be made to ensure prices are fair for consumers.

Financial Resilience and Controls:

We lead on high profile and impactful proposals to protect current and future consumers by developing a more financially resilient energy system.

We want to remove incentives for excessive risk-taking with consumer money whilst enabling an environment