Senior Policy Manager

Britain’s energy system is at a crossroads, and Ofgem is at the forefront of the fight to protect consumers, tackle rising costs and accelerate the transition to a greener future.

We’re looking for a Senior Policy Manager to join us and help drive the bold decisions needed to secure a fairer, more sustainable energy system for generations to come.

You’ll have the scope to shape policy that affects millions of consumers, supports businesses and influences the direction of an entire industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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 ensure delivery for consumers

Person specification

• Policy Skills: identifying, analysing, and articulating complex problems; working with other professionals to develop solutions and options, and presenting policy recommendations that consider the trade-offs, risks, and dependencies to aid effective decision making
• Managing delivery: set clear goals and priorities, supports others to solve problems, overcome challenges, seeking feedback and means of continuous improvement
• Clearly identifies and communicates the relevance, interdependencies and strategic fit of their work to organisational priorities both internally and externally
• Demonstrably identifies and understands the value/contribution of internal and external partners and effectively creates open, creative, constructive, timely and inclusive engagement

Benefits

• Salary of £49,452 - £62,699 per year
• Ofgem contributes £14,326 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• 30 days annual leave after 2 years
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review)
• Flexible working hours and family friendly policies