Deputy Director, Clean Power 2030 – Policy and Delivery
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 28th October 2024
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Job summary
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is one of the largest Departments in Whitehall. Its Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, and his Ministerial team want to demonstrate the role of the Department in growing the UK economy.
The Department has a large, complex and important portfolio and is responsible for the delivery of security of energy supply, ensuring greater energy efficiency of UK homes and businesses and responsibility across Whitehall in seizing the opportunities of Net Zero.
The Secretary of State’s priorities are:
Cheaper: Reducing the wholesale cost of electricity by the middle of the next decade.
Cleaner: Supporting green technologies to achieve Net Zero, create jobs and stimulate economic growth.
More Secure: Ensuring greater energy independence for the UK.
For more information about the department please visit: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero.
Job description
The Government has made a high priority commitment to deliver clean power by 2030, as part of its mission to make the UK a clean energy superpower. Delivering this will require an acceleration of efforts to bring low carbon power generation online, ensure the necessary network infrastructure is in place, and take a whole system view of the way different technologies interact to ensure we deliver the ambition in a way which ensures secure and affordable supplies of electricity, and does so as part of a credible pathway to accelerate to net zero by 2050. To meet this ambition, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is establishing a new 2030 unit to provide a relentless focus on delivery, using the best data, evidence and expertise to co-ordinate efforts across the Department and the wider energy system. As Deputy Director, you will be a key part of building and leading this unit.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing inclusive and inspiring leadership to a new team with a mix of policy and delivery expertise. You will set direction, empower staff and manage resources flexibly across your responsibilities, inspiring and empowering them to perform, providing continued opportunities for them to stretch and develop, and ensuring a fun and supportive atmosphere within the team.
- Building a new unit with the capability to use both system and project level data (including understanding commercial energy projects) to assess progress towards the 2030 ambition and work effectively with both Civil Service teams and external stakeholders to identify and address issues and risks to this goal
- Establishing and running a new “mission control” function to monitor and analyse delivery and support Ministers and the senior team in driving progress across the system
- Acting as part of the senior leadership of the unit and wider Department, playing a full contribution to the unit’s Senior Leadership Team and supporting the Director in effective management of its, culture and resourcing.
Person specification
It is important through your CV and Statement of Suitability that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following.
Essential Criteria
- A strong corporate and team leader with a proven track record of leading teams, providing leadership in a dynamic environment, and with a proven ability to build high performing, inclusive teams.
- An excellent communicator with a proven ability to present complex issues simply and effectively at senior levels.
- Proven ability to build effective relationships with diverse senior stakeholders.
- Expertise in translating policy into delivery, ideally at significant scale
- Ability to understand and interpret complex problems and policy issues, and translate this to credible and deliverable options and advice to Ministers
- Able to understand and synthesise information and analysis across a range of disciplines and understand how data and evidence informs policy and delivery
Desirable Criteria
- Previous experience working on energy and electricity issues, and a good understanding of electricity markets, generation and networks
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.
- 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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Selection process details
To apply for this post please follow the instructions on the CS Jobs website by no later than 23:55 on Monday 28th October 2024. As part of the application process you are asked to complete the following:
- A CV setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
- A Statement of Suitability (no more than 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to undertake one the following assessments as part of this recruitment prior to a final interview panel:
- A staff engagement exercise: a structured exercise which involves shortlisted candidates facilitating a discussion with a selection of staff from the Department on a given topic.
These assessments will not result in a “pass” or “fail” decision. Rather, they are designed to support the panel’s decision making and highlight areas for the panel to explore further at interview.
More information on assessments can be found by visiting https://scs-assessments.co.uk/
Final Interview which will include a presentation exercise.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.
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