Deputy Director, Electricity Interconnection and Deputy Director, Electricity Networks Policy

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Deputy Director, Electricity Interconnection – Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh and Salford.

Deputy Director, Electricity Networks Policy – London, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh and Salford.

Limited travel within the UK required.

About the job

Job summary

Deputy Director, Electricity Interconnection – You will be responsible for developing electricity interconnection policy; working with project developers, Ofgem and the National Energy System Operator (NESO) to facilitate development of new interconnectors to contribute to the Government’s Clean Energy mission; and developing policy on interconnection post-2030, including the role of multi-purpose interconnectors and integrated offshore networks.

Deputy Director, Electricity Networks Policy – This role provides an opportunity to lead key policy and delivery essential to delivering the electricity networks of the future and vital for the Government’s Clean Energy mission. Great Britain’s electricity network must undergo unprecedented expansion, as the economy electrifies, to deliver decarbonisation, energy affordability and energy security, and support economic growth. To connect new generation and meet future demand, around twice as much new transmission network infrastructure will be needed in Great Britain by 2030 as has been delivered in the past decade. This role provides an opportunity to lead key policy and delivery essential to delivering the electricity networks of the future.

Job description

Deputy Director, Electricity Networks Policy

You will be joining the senior leadership team of the Energy Systems and Networks Directorate (ESN). We work to ensure we have a reliable, low cost and clean energy system to support the Government’s mission to achieve clean power by 2030 and accelerate to net zero.

We aim to create an inclusive and supportive environment where everyone is able to develop and contribute to their full potential.

We actively encourage applications from candidates from all professional and personal backgrounds.

We welcome candidates who want to work flexibly; we already have several senior job sharers in the directorate.

You will lead a team of around 30 policy and delivery professionals. You will be an outstanding leader and manager with a track record of developing high performing teams, supporting individuals to develop to their full potential and who can sustain inspiring, confident leadership in a fascinating and important area.

Great Britain’s electricity network must undergo unprecedented expansion, as the economy electrifies, to deliver decarbonisation, energy affordability and energy security, and support economic growth. To connect new generation and meet future demand, around twice as much new transmission network infrastructure will be needed in Great Britain by 2030 as has been delivered in the past decade.

This role provides an opportunity to lead key policy and delivery essential to delivering the electricity networks of the future. You will oversee three teams: development of planning and consenting policy for electricity networks, in the context of wider reforms; community benefits and community engagement policy for electricity networks; policy development and delivery of community benefits; and supply chain and skills policy for electricity networks.

You will work closely with the Electricity Networks Strategy team within the framework and governance of the Electricity Networks Programme to develop and deliver electricity networks strategy as part of the Government’s Clean Energy mission.

Deputy Director, Electricity Interconnection

You will be joining the senior leadership team of the Energy Systems and Networks Directorate (ESN). We work to ensure we have a reliable, low cost and clean energy system to support the Government’s mission to achieve clean power by 2030 and accelerate to net zero. We aim to create an inclusive and supportive environment where everyone is able to develop and contribute to their full potential.

We actively encourage applications from candidates from all professional and personal backgrounds.

We welcome candidates who want to work flexibly; we already have several senior job sharers in the directorate.

You will lead a team of around 20 policy and delivery professionals.

You will be an outstanding leader and manager with a track record of developing high performing teams, supporting individuals to develop to their full potential and who can sustain inspiring, confident leadership in a fascinating and important area.

This role provides an opportunity to lead a policy area which is critical to the energy system.

You will be responsible for developing electricity interconnection policy; working with project developers, Ofgem, the National Energy System Operator and DESNZ’s international energy team to facilitate development of new interconnectors to contribute to the Government’s Clean Energy mission; and developing policy on interconnection post-2030, including the role of multi-purpose interconnectors and integrated offshore networks.

Person specification

Deputy Director, Electricity Networks Policy

Candidates must demonstrate they are:

• An outstanding leader and manager with a track record of developing diverse, inclusive, high-performing teams. You will demonstrate how you support individuals to develop to their full potential and sustain inspiring, confident leadership in a fascinating and important policy area. You are committed to your own development and that of your team, and to ensuring personal and team resilience
• Commercially aware and politically astute, with a track record of working with, and developing, evidence and using it to inform strategy. You will be effective at ensuring analytical, policy and project delivery specialists work well together in a multidisciplinary environment – drawing on external specialist expertise where appropriate. You will personally be comfortable working with analysis and explaining its implications clearly to senior stakeholders
• Effective at working with stakeholders in Government, regulators and industry to set the direction of travel. You will be able to work through and influence other parties to achieve change
• Able to turn policy into tangible delivery plans and deliver complex schemes, including governance, communications, assurance, finances, and auditing/monitoring. You will have experience of project delivery leadership and navigating through key delivery processes, internal and external.

Deputy Director, Electricity Interconnection

Candidates must demonstrate they are:

• An outstanding leader and manager with a track record of developing diverse, inclusive, high-performing teams. You will demonstrate how you support individuals to develop to their full potential and sustain inspiring, confident leadership in a fascinating and important policy area. You are committed to your own development and that of your team, and to ensuring personal and team resilience
• Commercially aware and politically astute, with a track record of working with, and developing, evidence and using it to inform strategy. You will be effective at ensuring analytical, policy and international engagement specialists work well together in a multidisciplinary environment – drawing on external specialist expertise where appropriate. You will personally be comfortable working with analysis and explaining its implications clearly to senior stakeholders
• Effective at working with stakeholders in Government, regulators, industry and international partners to set the direction of travel, deliver effectively through others and provide sector leadership. Experience working on international policies or projects is desirable but not essential
• Able to translate strategy and policy into tangible delivery plans, working with partners to identify pragmatic ways forward within a broader strategic context

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £76,000, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £22,017 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
• A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : SCS Candidate
• Email : scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : scscandidate.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Further information

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