About the job

Job summary

The Energy Security and Resilience Directorate protects society from energy disruption. We strengthen energy systems by identifying and mitigating risks and responding to them effectively if they arise. This includes driving cross-Government efforts to ensure gas and electricity supply and demand are balanced and downstream fuel infrastructure is resilient. We also promote energy security and resilience across government and industry and are responsible for developing policy on the future of the gas system as it decarbonises, including on gas storage and LNG.

Job description

Key Responsibilities 

As Deputy Director of the Energy Security and Resilience Analysis team, the post holder will be responsible for delivering impactful analysis critical to the smooth functioning and future evolution of the UK’s energy landscape.

In particular:

• Ensuring all analysis supporting decisions over the UK’s energy security is robust, defensible and strategic. This will require sophisticated judgement to navigate complex and contentious situations where outcomes are high impact and stakeholder scrutiny is high. 
• Accountable for setting the direction for enhancement of UK Government’s energy modelling capabilities to assess short- and long-term security of supply, distilling high-quality insights about real world implications in order to influence decision-making. 
• Driving the incorporation of the latest advanced data science analytics to deliver insights on security of supply and fuel disruption.
• Co-ordinating the analytical response to security of supply and fuel disruptions, including training and maintaining a cross-team group of “on-call” analysts that would assist in the event of a significant disruption. 
• Lead a programme of new work to support decisions about the longer-term future of the gas system, including network decommissioning/repurposing, the need for future storage and LNG infrastructure. This will require a pragmatic approach where pathways are uncertain and evidence may be incomplete.
• Working as a member of the Directorate SMT and the wider departmental Analytical Leadership Team, setting strategic direction and prioritising analytical resources to align with both current organisational objectives and longer-term strategic questions e.g. cyber security and resilience of UK energy infrastructure.  
• Maintaining deep and productive relationships with stakeholders inside the department. Building partnerships with external organisations including with National Grid, Ofgem, Met Office, industry and academics to ensure the analytical work of the team is based on latest insights and evidence.

Person specification

Required skills and experience 

• Analytical excellence - a track record of producing high-quality and innovative analysis that stands up to the highest levels of external scrutiny, delivering impact through effective communication of analytical insights.

• Delivering results – an ability to oversee and deliver multiple workstreams on time and to a high standard through effective leadership and management of multidisciplinary team members.

• Brilliant and inclusive leadership - a track record of building and leading high-performing teams that are happy and inclusive and welcoming places to work.

• Strategic thinking - experience of supporting other senior leaders in translating strategic direction into analytical programmes of work.

• Professional qualification - membership of one (or more) of the Government Analytical professions – Government Economic Service, Government Operational Research Service, Government Statistical Service or Government Social Research.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to apply

To apply for this post please follow the instructions on the CS Jobs website by no later than 23:55, 3rd June 2024. As part of the application process, you are asked to complete the following:

1. 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.
2. A Statement of Suitability (no more than 1000 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.
3. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to undertake a series of psychometric assessments including a Staff Engagement Exercise (SEE) as part of the recruitment process prior to the final interview. This assessment will not result in a ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ decision. Rather it is designed to support the panels decision making and highlight areas for the panel to explore further at interview. 
4. Final Interview, candidates will be required to prepare a presentation which will form part of the final interview. Full details of the assessment process will be provided to shortlisted candidates.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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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). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.