Senior Policy Lead (ESMS)

Global political events and record price volatility have put the energy market under severe strain and have driven upwards pressure on consumers energy bills. Now more than ever we need to ensure security of supply whilst pursuing the country’s climate goals, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, and keeping the energy system on track to deliver Net Zero.

We are looking for a Senior Policy Manager to help us maintain electricity security of supply, an area of work that is extremely topical, high profile and high impact.

The successful candidate will sit within the Electricity Security & Market Management team in ESMS. This is a multi-disciplinary team, responsible for electricity security of supply, wholesale market functioning, as well as overseeing policy on the capacity market.

Whilst Government holds ultimate accountability for energy security of supply in GB, Ofgem has a key role to play. Our role is to monitor risks on a regular basis, provide advice to DESNZ and contribute to the deployment of mitigations and interventions to reduce the probability of commodity shortages materialising, and where possible, the impact.

Key Responsibilities

Policy Development & Delivery

• Proactively leads a policy area and provides the end-to-end knowledge and strategic oversight to support effective decision making and continuous improvement
• Proactively leads continuous development of their domain knowledge, policy proposals, research, technology, consumer needs and stakeholder perspectives in their policy/strategy area
• Works flexibly across Ofgem to ensure delivery of organisation priorities in line with business planning, guiding, supporting, and collaborating with colleagues to respond effectively to change
• Leads on the delivery of high quality, timely, and robust analysis of core issue/s and policy options resulting in evidence-based and deliverable recommendations.
• Leads key projects, including responsibility for internal and external stakeholder engagement, prioritising, planning and delivering work.
• Ensures decision makers consider relevant legislation and regulation and any specific case issues and escalates critical issues as needed to ensue delivery for consumers.

Stakeholder Management

• Effectively communicating the benefits, challenges, and trade-offs from policy proposals to Ofgem colleagues and sectoral stakeholders, effectively using evidence to build understanding and commitment to action.
• Ensures effective delivery by working collaboratively across team boundaries and engaging with key Ofgem functions and relevant government departments – developing close links to manage and mitigate risks
• Representing Ofgem externally and building constructive stakeholder relationships to ensure challenges and issues are identified and resolved in consumers’ interests
• Is demonstrably accessible and identifiable to all who operate in their policy/strategy area as and Ofgem lead/expert and in turn knows who to engage to improve policy design and delivery