Clean Heat Lead
Department for Business and Trade
Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 8th November 2024
Details
Reference number
Salary
Job grade
Contract type
Business area
Type of role
International Trade
Operational Delivery
Working pattern
Number of jobs available
Contents
Location
About the job
Job summary
The Waste to Value and Clean Heat Team sits within the Construction, Infrastructure and Energy Cluster in Business Group. We support investment, growth and exports in a range of waste to value and clean heat technologies.
Our aim is to ensure that waste to value and clean heat technologies deliver economic growth as these sectors grow in value across the UK economy. The team is responsible for supporting a wide range of green industries including: Energy Efficiency, Energy from Waste, Heat Networks, Heat Pumps, Plastic Recycling and Sustainable Aviation Fuels. We are the department’s experts in these sectors. Our work is central to supporting the government’s net zero ambitions, including the warm homes plan, through driving the delivery of investment into these sectors developing both UK capability/capacity and supply chains.
We are a mixed team of experienced civil servants and industry specialists. The team has a broad remit and is central to providing knowledge and expertise to investors, DBT teams, and overseas colleagues navigating the UK landscape. We also support policy development across Whitehall through extensive engagement with policy teams across government aiming to shape and influence the investment environment in pursuit of growth.
The team is seeking a talented and ambitious individual to lead on the clean heat and energy efficiency sectors for the department. The postholder will need to be comfortable autonomously working at pace, have an ability to work closely and diplomatically with multiple stakeholders to develop and deliver priority projects, and have the ability to navigate complex and nuanced interactions between policy drivers.
DBT recognises and promotes an environment that welcomes and values diverse backgrounds, thinking, skills and experience. Having an inclusive organisation, where people are able to bring their ‘whole selves’ to work, enables everyone fulfil their potential and to produce their best work. We promote and encourage a range of flexible working patterns enabling staff to balance home and work responsibilities.
Job description
We are looking for a candidate to lead on the clean heat – primarily heat networks and heat pumps - and energy efficiency sectors for DBT to deliver objectives including investment delivery and policy influencing to maximise the growth of these sectors in the UK. As part of your role, you can expect to:
- Managing a pipeline of existing investment projects across clean heat, working with investors in support of their projects as well as working to identify and support new investors/opportunities.
- Build and manage relationships with UK and overseas companies looking to invest in the UK at senior levels, to encourage and support inward investment projects, including as account manager for a range of our biggest accounts.
- Develop evidence-based analysis of the commercial and regulatory barriers that shape the investment environment, using this to spot opportunities to improve the investment proposition
- Collaborate and influence within DBT and across Whitehall to address the underpinning policies, barriers and enablers that shape the investment environment for clean heat. You will work with others to build consensus, find routes to influence and develop carefully balanced recommendations, with a focus on ensuring growth in UK capability creates jobs and enhances the export offer.
- Supporting UK companies looking to access export opportunities in overseas markets, by ensuring the department’s export promotion teams have expert and up to date knowledge of UK capability and providing support where appropriate.
- Maintaining an awareness of the global opportunity in the sectors and using this information to respond to emerging opportunities and/or changes in circumstances across different markets.
Person specification
Personal attributes and skills
- A self-starter that can get up to speed on a topic and is comfortable identifying and leading on workstreams to deliver key objectives.
- Ability to grasp a complex policy area quickly and consider how they can be implemented to align with your aims effectively.
- Someone who is inquisitive, open and collaborative and able to effectively draw on their network to bring in knowledge and expertise to help them where necessary.
- A systems thinker with the ability to consider the bigger picture, wider factors and long-term implications of decisions.
- Someone who is adept at building strong, credible and influential relationships with a range of people, including but not limited to senior business people, officials, private offices, trade associations.
Essential criteria
- Experience working with businesses and stakeholder management including the ability to establish a wide network of meaningful contacts
- Experience leading work which involves collaboration with multiple stakeholders across government, often with conflicting viewpoints
- Proven ability to influence outcomes where you are not the lead.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly on complex issues and distil salient points for different target audiences.
Desirable criteria
- Experience working on investment and/or sector development
- Knowledge/enthusiasm for the clean heat and/or energy efficiency sectors, green economy or climate change issues.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.
Please ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way.
It is likely that the sift will take place 1-2 weeks after the closing date and interviews 3-5 weeks after the closing date, though this is subject to change.
To apply for this post, you will be asked to complete the following as part of the online application:
- A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Provide employment history that relates to the Essential criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages.
- A Personal Statement of up to 500 words, explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the Essential criteria.
In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial short sift will be conducted on the Personal Statement.
Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a short oral presentation, details will be provided prior to your interview.
Reasonable Adjustments
We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. In order to request an adjustment:
Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section on the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process.
Alternatively contact the Government Recruitment Service at DBTrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Candidate Support
You may want to join a virtual Candidate Support Session. These sessions include helpful tips and advice on the recruitment process, from application to interview.
Please see attached Candidate Pack for further information on: Diversity and Inclusion; Benefits; Learning and Development; Working Patterns and what we deliver as a department.
Further Information:
- A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made. Reserve Lists will be for each location and appointments made in merit order based on location preferences.
- Any move to the Department for Business and Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments.
- The Department will not consider sponsoring a visa or issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship. We are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.
- New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
- 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. Any applicant who has 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.
- Terms and Conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
- Please note – the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role.
- This role may be considered as a secondment opportunity. Please reach out to the hiring manager listed at the bottom of this advert to discuss.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland/Access NI 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
For further information on the Access NI confidential checking service telephone: the Access NI Helpline on 0300 200 7888 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email accessni@ani.x.gsi.gov.uk
Vetting
The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5-years. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
Feedback
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Nationality requirements
Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
Diversity and Inclusion
Apply and further information
Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Katerina Tolarova
- Email : katerina.tolarova@businessandtrade.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : dbtrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DBT by email: Resourcing@businessandtrade.gov.uk.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.
For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints
