Governance and Assurance Officer - London, United Kingdom - Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £31,120 - £37,260-
Job grade:

Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
BEIS
Net Zero Buildings and Industry
Net Zero Buildings and Industry

(NZBI)

Clean Heat
Type of role:
Project Delivery
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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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:

Do you have a passion for helping address climate change? Heat in buildings accounts for 22% of UK emissions and is one of our biggest climate challenges.

You could be part of a team solving this issue.

The Clean Heat Directorate is tackling arguably the most difficult decarbonisation challenge facing the country. Heating must be almost totally decarbonised to meet net zero. Currently natural gas is used for heating in 85% of buildings and many industrial processes.

The main options for decarbonising heat at national scale are switching to electric heating and/or replacing natural gas with hydrogen.

The Hydrogen Heating Team is leading the department's work to test the safety and feasibility of hydrogen as an option for decarbonising the gas grid.

We are working with industry on a joint programme across a wide range of projects.

These include assessing the changes required for end-users and to the gas infrastructure; laboratory and field testing; and consumer trialling.

The hydrogen heating team is in the Clean Heat Directorate in BEIS.

It is a friendly, large, multidisciplinary programme team, including project delivery and policy professionals, analysts, engineers, commercial and delivery specialists.

We are looking for a motivated, organised and collaborative individual to join the Programme Management Office.

The PMO team is a friendly and encouraging team that works across the Programme, making it a great place to develop your project management skills, learn about governance for a complex Research and Development programme and gain experience of working with important stakeholders.

This is a varied and high-profile role, including regular engagement with senior leaders.

Person specification:

The Governance and Assurance Officer will have direct access to our senior decision-making structures and will have a tangible role in ensuring they are well run and successful in reaching their objectives.

The role will provide the opportunity to gain exposure throughout the team as the coordinating lead for any governance and assurance reporting requirements.

This role provides a fantastic opportunity to showcase your skills whilst also broadening your experience of working in a PMO and will undoubtedly enable you to fulfil your potential in a fast paced and exciting Programme.

You will:

Contribute to the development, delivery, review and continuous improvement of the governance systems to support the implementation of best practice governance management processes across the programme.
Support decisionmaking. Report and engage in mechanisms that hold those with programme delivery responsibilities to account.
Work closely with an array of stakeholders who attend our governance structures to ensure that robust meeting agendas are developed, and decisions are recorded and implemented.
Develop and maintain constructive relationships with cross cutting teams and subprogramme PMOs.
Provide key guidance and support in planning and managing all external reviews across the Programme e.g. Gateway Reviews and actively track review recommendations.
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