Job summary
About the Role
The Energy Affordability Directorate was formed in 2022 in order to lead Government�s response to an unprecedented surge in energy prices. Since its formation, it has overseen delivery of over �40 billion of energy price support across the whole of the UK, funding around half of household bills last winter and providing support to businesses and charities through a challenging period. While prices are now falling, they remain high and households and businesses continue to face significant challenges.�
What will the successful candidate being doing?�
As Director, you will be responsible for leading the team in developing a refreshed approach to ensuring the market works for businesses and consumers. You will take overall responsibility for policy on retail markets, consumer affordability and policy costs on bills, acting as the departmental lead for our relationship with Ofgem, as well as continued delivery of the suite of policy schemes launched in 2022, ensuring successful closure and strong delivery leadership for the remainder of the schemes.�This will include line management of 3 SCS1s.
Job description
Your responsibilities will include-
1. Providing inclusive and inspiring leadership to a Directorate of around c. 130 staff split across 4 Deputy Director led teams with a mix of policy, delivery and analysis expertise. You will lead the Directorate through a period of change as the suite of price support schemes wind down and our approach to affordability and retail markets evolves, set the 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.
2. Ensuring effective delivery of the energy support schemes as SRO (including the Energy Price Guarantee, Alternative Fuel Payment, Energy Bills Relief Scheme and Energy Bill Discount Scheme), including effective delivery of closing stages of schemes, management of scheme budgets, and ensuring high quality management of financial reconciliation processes and fraud and error risks.�
3. Leading the Department�s work on retail energy market policy, including working with Ofgem on live issues relating to retail markets and developing and delivering policy on future facing issues and market reform.
4. Lead the Department�s sponsor relationship with Ofgem.
5. Oversee all work on consumer affordability strategy including on structure of household and business bills, policy costs and levies, and work to rebalance costs in order to incentivise take-up of key technologies for the transition to net zero.�
Person specification
Skills and Experience (Essential)
6. Building and inspiring high-performing teams with a strong focus ondelivery�through periods of change and ambiguity;
7. The ability to work effectively with external partners such as Ofgem, and across professional boundaries, building strong relationships and providing appropriate challenge;�
8. Comfortable working in a programme management environment, managing financial risk and scrutiny;�
9. The ability to link strategic insights and evidence to decisions on funding and regulation; and
10. Commitment to driving forward transformation and change in the department including through Places for Growth and the department�s values.�
We expect all our senior leaders to be
11. Inspiring � about our work and its future�
12. Confident � in our engagement with others�
13. Empowering � to allow our teams to deliver�
Benefits
Alongside your salary of �97,000, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes �28,100 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
14. A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
15. Automatic enrolment into the, with an average employer contribution of 27%.
16. A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
17. An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
18. Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
Office attendance
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period. Senior Civil Servant (SCS) staff are expected to aim for closer to 60% of the time at an office or non-home based location over the accounting period.
Further Information
Reasonable Adjustment
We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions.�
Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our. Aof the guidance is also available.�
We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section.�
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