Project Manager: Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
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Do you want a career where you can make a real difference? Do you want to work at the forefront of current policy making decisions? Do you want to have an impact on the UK and beyond? If yes, then a career at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) could be for you.
Here at DESNZ we are delivering our mission to make the UK a clean energy superpower, with clean electricity by 2030 and accelerating the UK’s journey to net zero. Our work is helping ensure clean energy for all, keep bills down and seize the opportunities to lead the world in new green industries, taking back control of our energy with Great British Energy and encouraging greater energy efficiency across the UK. The work of the department has never been more timely or relevant, and by joining us you will be part of making that difference.
Our work is varied, interesting and most importantly it's impactful. Our DESNZ Values are interwoven into everything we do; we are bold, we are collaborative, we are inclusive, and we learn. As a department we are committed to these values to build a culture where everyone can thrive
We offer great working benefits including a world-class pension, flexible working options and a career where your learning and development is taken seriously. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
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Job description
Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) can play a crucial role in reaching net zero. It can be an engine to drive cleaner, sustainable growth, transforming our industrial heartlands. It can also unlock new jobs and innovative businesses, raising productivity and competitiveness across the UK.
We have committed to delivering the first two-CCUS Clusters by the mid-2020s and have announced HyNet and the East Coast Cluster as the Track-1 Clusters, and we are approaching the Final Investment Decision for both.
The Cluster Teams oversee the delivery of the Hynet and ECC Clusters, ensuring that the final deals struck deliver value for money, and facilitate the establishment of an enduring, self-sustaining carbon capture industry. The teams own the Full Business Cases, delivery schedules and cluster-level decision-making.
Within these teams, we are looking for someone to drive delivery, supporting engagement with industry, managing schedule and risks and addressing challenges, and working across the multiple teams engaged in negotiations to uncover issues as they emerge.
This is a complex, stretching role, and comes at a very exciting time to join our team, with the Prime Minster recently announcing £21.7bn of available funding for the clusters! We are a lively, diverse, inclusive and friendly team, with a collaborative and encouraging culture and strong emphasis on learning and development. We seek to achieve high performance while also promoting wellbeing and supporting flexible working practices. We are embracing hybrid working and committed to being inclusive and great place to work.
Person specification
Key Responsibilities
Depending on how the 2 roles are allocated, responsibilities will include:
1. Schedule and dependency management:
- Help to develop and manage the overall schedule for the cluster and expansion of the cluster via follow-on projects.
- Ensure the schedule provides an ambitious yet realistic view of deployment and expansion, having a good understanding of design & construction, permitting and HMG processes.
- Advise decision-makers on the schedule and re-baselining decisions.
- Work with team leads to ensure dependencies are actively managed, resolve issues between the various elements of the programme.
2. Risk and Issue Resolution:
- Oversee risk and issue management for the cluster. Identify and resolve challenges to the schedule and risks to delivery, ensuring mitigations are in place.
- Advise senior management on trade-offs to ensure the clusters remains on track.
3. Scope and Benefits Management:
- Ensure deals provide value for taxpayers and energy consumers, enable future cluster expansion, and support a sustainable carbon capture industry.
- Manage cluster scope and dependencies, monitor commercial negotiation impacts, and present trade-off decisions to T1 Board and senior officers.
- Balance time, cost, and benefits for value, manage tranche benefits, and compile advice on project inclusion in the Cluster Investment Decision based on delivery risks and engineering limits.
4. Business Case Requirements:
- Ensure deal robustness and readiness for operations, evidenced in strong Full Business Cases for future projects that join the network. Support strategic case drafting for the business case, and confirm system capacity, capability, and cost maturity requirements for FBC are met.
5. Stakeholder engagement:
- Contribute to monthly working groups with external stakeholders from each cluster.
- Drive coordination within the cluster and ensure industry partners meet deadlines.
6. Guidance, leadership and cross-team Collaboration:
- Collaborate effectively with other teams in CCUS, providing direction and guidance on delivery objectives.
- Work across negotiation and assurance teams to ensure cohesive project delivery.
7. Change Management:
- Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.
8. Governance:
- Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making.
Skills and Experience
We would love to hear from you if you have:
- Experience of driving project/programmes forward and securing the required outcomes.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams with the ability to draw out expertise from other professions (e.g., policy, digital, commercial etc) to support overall delivery.
- Experience of working with senior stakeholders, articulating and presenting complex issues in a clear and concise fashion.
- Strong organisational skills and experience handling multiple competing priorities, workstreams and requests.
- Experience in challenging constructively and acting as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose.
- Relevant project delivery experience such as risk /schedule / stakeholder management. Knowledge of risk assessment process.
Desirable Criteria:
Holding a Project Delivery qualification / membership, such as -
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Project Management Practitioner
- APM Project Management Qualification
- PMI Project Management Professional
- Leading and Managing Project Workstreams
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Planning- Project Delivery Capability Framework for Project Manager Level 3: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/project-delivery-capability-framework-for-civil-servants
Benefits
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.
Office attendance
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.
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Selection process details
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and three 250 word behaviour statements. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the lead behaviour statement 'Delivering at Pace'.
Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The interview will consist of behaviour and technical questions.
Interviewees will be asked to deliver a presentation; further details will be provided nearer the time.
Sift and interview dates
Expected Timeline subject to change
Sift dates: w/c 18/11/2024
Interview dates: w/c 25/11/2024
Interview Location: MS Teams.
Candidates are asked to note the above timetable, exercising flexibility through the recruitment and selection process.
Reasonable Adjustment
We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.
Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DESNZ Candidate Guidance. A DESNZ Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available.
We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Further Information
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.
Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
Any move to the Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
DESNZ does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).
DESNZ cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DESNZ holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Dominic Whetton
- Email : dominic.whetton2@energysecurity.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : desnzresourcing.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
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